Not-so-Early Adopters

2005-02-01



Don't live to geek; geek to live.
- lifehacker
Umm. Ok.

For the early adopter who has everything, Gawker Media brings you lifehacker. Sponsored by Sony, the site explains blog, quotes Richard Stallman and is under a Creative Commons license.

The Good Fight

Eric Raymond
has stepped down as President of the Open Source Initiative and a new team is in place. OSI established the Open Source Definition and has set the metric on licenses.

There is no shortage of intelligence at the newly established Software Freedom Law Center. Headed by Eben Moglen in New York, the center stands to protect software freedom. The GNU General Public License and its license siblings, have created a multi-billion dollar revenue stream for the members of Open Source Development Lab, which is bankrolling the effort.

Welcome SFLC and good speed!