I was just reading a very interesting article from Jeremy Allison of the samba team called The Land of "Nothing for free". A very interesting quote
My panel was rather uncontroversial, Microsoft, Bruce Perens and myself being on our best behavior. The only sparks that flew where when Microsoft made it abundantly clear that they would use their patent portfolio to prevent the spread of GPL software. Section seven of the GPL (the implicit patent grant of the license) now looks like the most prescient writing Richard Stallman has ever done. If you're not familiar with it I'd suggest you read it and understand why using the GPL to protect your Free Software is so important.
Back in Delhi, we had a very good Linux User Group (LUG). When I came to Bangalore, I had expected
the LUG here to be even more active. However, I was very disappointed -
the BLUG had been dissolved and replaced by totally listless BoF (beards
of feathers) meets.
Kingsly has posted a
good summary about the state of affairs. Seems like too much
politics was involved.
Since everyone has been busy drinking the Google kool-aid and simply going in an orgasm over the Google Gulp, I will take the road less travelled and point out the Yahoo Slacker here.
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