Information Related To 'Opensource'
The Obama Administration has forced Sourceforge to deny service to its anti-terrorism sanction list. In practical terms this means people in Cuba, North Korea, the Sudan, Syria and Iran get “403 forbidden” messages when they try to access sourceforge.org addresses.
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Obama enforces trade embargo against open source
Red Hat has opened a discussion community at Opensource.com . The site has been pre-loaded with comments from CEO Jim Whitehurst and other Red Hat employees. The most important is probably Venkatesh Hariharan (right), who goes by the screen name Venky and is listed as head of open source affairs at Red Hat
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Red Hat becomes an open source community organizer
Stormy Peters, executive director at the GNOME Foundation and one of the wonder-women of the open source world, delivered a powerful keynote presentation at the 2009 Utah Open Source Conference . Video of the complete presentation is available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyaM7VWqOg Stormy Peters at UTOSC 2009 One of the things about the free software community that continues to baffle those non-open source people is, “why do you do it?” Free software developers work on open source software for a number of reasons from scratching an itch to gaining a reputation to building a resume to contributing to a good cause. The interesting problem comes when money enters into the equation
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Video: Stormy Peters at UTOSC 2009