Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week July 21 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Google Linux Software Repositories
- SAP Certifies Its Applications…
GPL v3 Q&A with Luis Villa
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the Free Software Foundation finally ratified and released the new version of the GPL at the end of June. This marks the newest chapter in the…
OLPC used to browse porn
Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday…
Mandriva & Intel Showcase the Intel-powered classmate PC
Mandriva & Intel presented and demonstrated the Intel-powered classmatePC to KDE developers at the aKademy 2007 conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
Intel's Latin America Linux Strategic…
Linux Lotteries, anyone?
I'm not quite sure where this lotto ticket originates from... but can you identify the possible copyright violation? Release the hounds!
What's the Story Behind Apache?
"Most people in the free software world know two things about Apache. The first is that its name derives from the fact that it was a “a patchy server”, built out of patches to the earlier NCSA…
VALVe Ultimatum: Discuss Linux and get Banned
VALVe moderators threaten to ban users for discussing a Linux version of steam.
Richard Stallman Talks on Copyright vs The People
"Richard M. Stallman recently gave a talk entitled Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club. The talk looks at the origin of…
The pen is mightier than the FUD
"A few days ago Rob Enderle proclaimed that Open Source and Linux are losing momentum, without any evidence to back this up and despite that IDC and Gartner are saying the exact opposite. The FOSS…
Linux Expert: Microsoft Is Throwing Money Away
Redmond would have to "sue its customers" to pursue its contention that Linux infringes on Microsoft's patents -- an unlikely scenario.
Linux Expert: Microsoft Is Throwing Money Away.