Groklaw's Sean Daly had an opportunity to meet Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, at OpenForum Europe last week. Mr. Cerf, known as the Father of the Internet because of being the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and the basic architecture of the Internet, was gracious enough to answer some email questions Sean propounded regarding the future of the Internet, standards in general, and OOXML in particular. Like many others this week, Cerf has been giving the standards process considerable thought, and he concludes in connection with OOXML that "Internet users deserve better handling of global Internet standards."
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Ten Steps Needed for Fiery Desktop Linux Adoption
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With each passing month, I find one article after another claiming to have the magic formula needed for desktop Linux to see significant gains. But to me, this feels a lot like putting the carriage before the horse.
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World to Dell: We want desktop Linux!
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While Dell is yet to make an announcement for Australia, the PC maker's UK office has declared: "Dell Answers Customer Calls For Linux In Europe". Unless of course you live in Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey ...
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Linux: Making the change
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Moving to Linux used to be a big deal. Sure, it was cheaper, more reliable, and more flexible -- but who did you turn to when things went wrong? In an enterprise world that had grown up with the idea that Unix needed to be complex and expensive -- and that Windows was a quick-and-dirty Plan B -- the idea of getting a robust, scalable operating system for free just didn't click for many years.
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New foundation trustees elected
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New trustees for the Gentoo Foundation were just elected. The foundation takes care of Gentoo's intellectual property (copyrights, trademarks) and money.
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Meeting of Minds in Open Source
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For the past three years, an open source consulting firm appropriately named the Olliance Group has put on an event called the “Open Source Think Tank”. Mark Hinkle and I have attended for the last two. The location is a well-regarded resort in Napa Valley called the Silverado. While a less posh setting might feel more natural for an open source conference (and I might have chosen a slightly less pretentious title), the events have been very worthwhile.
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A Comparison Of AMD & NVIDIA's Linux Control Panels
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It was a year ago that AMD had replaced its aging FireGL Control Panel inside its Linux driver with the AMDCCCLE, or AMD Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition
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IceBuntu 2.2 and screenshot
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Keep an eye on IceBuntu (and its dedicated forums here), because it’s steadily improving. This isn’t a one-time, just-for-fun, let’s-see-if-we-can-roll-our-own distro effort.
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How To Learn Lisp
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"In the spirit of my last post, I decided to turn one of my favorite long comments on Hacker News into a blog post in the hopes that someone would find it useful. There was a good discussion last week about how to learn Lisp, and since I was a little late to the thread, most of the things I wanted to say had already been said. So, in an effort to pull it all together, I made a nice long summary comment, which is reproduced and cleaned up below [...]
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Who will take over perl101.org?
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"Who out there has some free time and is interested in helping out beginners? [...] All I require is that you'll do something useful for the beginners. Any interest?
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Mandriva relaunches its OS Refugees operation targetting linked sales
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"...Mandriva, signatories of the « Non aux racketiciels » "Say No to software racket" movement, wishes to join the fight on linked sales spearheaded by the AFUL's Détaxe/Racketiciel working group supported by APRIL, by relaunching its OS Refugees operation from 3rd March 2008 until April, the 8th , 2008 ..." -- http://www.racketiciel.info/petition/
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CC Salon Belgrade: Festival of Free Culture
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"CC Serbia will be hosting the first CC Salon in Belgrade on March 7th - 10th. The program features many fantastic local projects, including CCBit, the first Creative Commons-licensed music CD compilation in Serbia, and Freedom Toaster, a device/interface for individual file-sharing in public spaces..."
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Debian Documentation Project moved to SVN, webwml might follow
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"The topic of switching from CVS to something else regularly came forward but nobody did anything. The net result is that several documentation are now maintained outside of the debian-doc repository because their respective maintainers didn’t want to stay with CVS. After noticing that the developers-reference also switched to SVN, I decided to convert the whole debian-doc CVS repository and import it in the new “ddp” SVN repository on Alioth. This is now done..."
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Fedora Project Leader: Hello and Goodbye
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For the last two years Max Spevack has lead the Fedora Project through many changes. Now, he has decided it's time for him to move on to other areas and so a new leader has been found: Paul Frields. Paul, coming into the role from the position of a community contributor, is already well known and has some exciting new ideas resulting from his previous experiences. In this interview we catch up with both Max and Paul as they discuss their experiences of the Fedora Project Leader job, the project's past and its future.
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Utter Crap?: Matt Asay and The Linux Desktop Q&A (and Video)
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But the one area in which (Matt Asay and I) have never seen eye to eye is the Linux desktop. I certainly don’t agree that desktop Linux is “utter crap” compared to Mac or Windows, and I’ve disagreed with his statements on desktop Linux for years, particularly in the area of application installation. Matt’s on the record as not liking the Linux desktop, though I’m not sure why, so the fact that we agree to disagree on this subject is not surprising.
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