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December 2008, #176
The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.
Other gadgets covered include the Nokia tablets, the BlackBerry, the Neo FreeRunner, the Dash Express, the Roku Netflix Player, the Kangaroo TV, The TomTom GO 930 and the MooBella Ice Cream System. On the larger hardware front, read the reviews of the Acer Aspire One and the YDL PowerStation. On the software front, check out the articles and columns on memcached, Samba security, Mutt, desktop gadgets, bash and Puppet. To wrap it all up, read Doc's thoughts on Google and the browser platform.
I don't think Novell is in
On June 1st, 2007 Saby-user242 (not verified) says:
I don't think Novell is in danger of going out of business any time soon, and certainly not before the SYS-V patents expire. (I'm sure the linux kernel doesn't even copy such patents.)
The bigger issue that should be looked at by the community, is whether or not such an intrusive license like the GPL v3 is really what is needed to make open source software more inclusive, or more exclusive. I think it will lead to a more exclusive development community, and you won't have large companies even touching GPL v3 stuff, because it is so prohibitive to how they can use it.
The kernel itself, as Linus has stated will never be put under GPL v3. Other software probably will be though. If Gnome is put under it, do you think Novell will continue to develop Ximian for Gnome or switch development over to KDE, which under trolltech has a MUCH more flexible licensing system?
This is something every Free Software coder should be worried about. Don't let FSF and GNU's politics kill the FS movement.