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Eben Moglen, founder of the new Software Freedom Law
Center and Columbia law professor from New York, stopped by the
GNOME booth at LinuxWorld, San Francisco. He wanted to invite
GNOME Foundation's participation in the review of an upcoming
revised GNU General Public License.
With a GPL3 long awaited, Professor Moglen and Richard Stallman
are working on a language that will be posted early next year
for community review. The public comments period is expected to
take a year. We asked Professor Moglen what we might see on the
patent issue in the revised license. In answer to that
question, he described a large GPL community with a spectrum of
opinion from large global companies that want a carve out on
patents to free software developers who prefer the punitive
revoking of GPL rights in cases of patent conflicts.
The .org pavilion at LinuxWorld is always a hub of vibrant
activity and mutual aid among projects. Whether it's borrowing
a pair of scissors or the sharing of network connections,
hardware and information, the .org pavilion just works. It has
become a cornerstone of LWE since we first proposed to IDG that
they put all the community projects together after their first
show in 1999.
The LTSP.org team unpacks the thin clients
LinuxWorld was first held in San Jose before moving to San
Francisco. It is now located in this city's new Moscone West
(Moscone North and South now occupied by a large gift store
expo.) We haven't seen the new building's loading dock, but it
was sure nice to see the delivery of thin clients arrive, even
though the expo had already opened. The guys at LTSP had two of
them up and running at the GNOME booth in no time. Pity the
poor coordinator from Ricoh who was hunting down his two boxes
(one printer) while the set-up crew sat waiting over the
weekend. "Two boxes?"
"That's two sets of paper."
"We have the paperwork, we just don't have the boxes."
The .org pavilion remains the place to see the latest in open
source technology.
Stuart Anderson stopped by to demo the new USB powered
pocket server from Black Dog. The ipod size
Debian powered device comes with a biometric scanner and a
400Mhz PowerPC processor with flash memory.
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