"JDS's GNOME based desktop is a pleasure to use."
Following Sun's vice president of operating systems Tom Goguen's announcement that
Sun will make a reference release of JDS on a Linux distribution available,
Fernando Cassia writes about the Java Desktop System in the Inquirer.
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Chief Information Officers and information technology staff from 17 states and Argentina convened today in Portland, Oregon at the first
Open Source Conference. The conference was opened by Congressman David Wu, a ranking member of the
House Committee on Science in the U.S. Congress. Representative Wu,
a former intellectual property lawyer, spoke of his Portland region as a hub of best minds
and businesses developing and benefiting from open source and free software - home of Linus Torvalds, Intel and the Eclipse Foundation.
Red Hat's Tom Rabon,Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs delivered the morning keynote highlighting the rapid adoption of open source by governments around the world. He also spoke about the current abuses of the
U.S. patent system and its "monopolistic hold which stifles innovation" citing
12 patents on the movement of a cursor as an example.
The two-day conference is organized by the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University.
At a pre-conference dinner for speakers on Wednesday evening, Linda Hammel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, received a round of applause. The recent adoption of Open Document file formats in Massachusetts has attracted the attention of other governments as far away as Malaysia,
according to Tom Ranbon. Ms. Hammel, an attorney who did much of the due diligence
on the GPL and other licenses for Massachusetts, is at GOSCON presenting a background primer
on Proprietary and Open Source
licenses and public sector issues.
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Rising Stars Sign With GNOME Foundation
Today the GNOME Foundation welcomes three rising star companies to its Advisory Board - OpenedHand, Imendio and Fluendo.
Working on the Econ(o)system
Ecosystem is the latest buzz word used to describe open source interplay of code and commerce. Community and companies. Jobs.
The term ecosystem is a progression, of sorts, from
being labelled techie lunatic fringe or disruptive technology.
Roots
Today's announcement illustrates how the GNOME developers continue to develop technology that
benefits entrepreneurs and investors with open source business plans. In turn, these companies create jobs, return code and provide
resources to the community.
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