Submitted by txwikinger on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 10:03
As described in this Wall Street Journal article and many others on the Internet, the FCC is planning to stronger regulate the Internet in the future. There will be an important vote this week, and a lot of Democratic politicians are leaning on the democratic members of the FCC board to vote for the proposal of its chairman.
Submitted by txwikinger on Thu, 12/16/2010 - 12:57
Interestingly, Wikileaks might have already changed one aspect of the justice system, and this seemingly inadvertently.
While District Judge Howard Riddle in the bail hearing at magistrates court for Julian Assange allowed the public to tweet the proceedings of the court live to all the interested public on the Internet, Justice Ouseley during the appeal in the high court did not allow the same.
Submitted by txwikinger on Thu, 12/16/2010 - 12:24
Interestingly, netflix also wants to be known as an Open Source company. Apparently, they use Open Source because it is cheaper, despite various attempts of bribes from commercial companies.
They also claim that they contribute to Open Source without mentioning any evidence. If there is some evidence, please comment about it!
Submitted by txwikinger on Wed, 12/15/2010 - 17:26
9 weeks after the successful launch as permanent Q&A site in our new Ubuntu design, we have reached the 5000 question threshold. Those 5000 questions have been asked and answered to 93% with 11800 answers by 7300 users. 50000 votes have been cast for the questions and answers.
Here some more statistics from askubuntu.com:
# of questions: 5028
# of answers: 11836
# of comments: 17886
# of votes: 50577
# of badges: 11526
# of users: 7349
Submitted by txwikinger on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 10:43
Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 15:24
he Document Foundation's steering committee will hold a public phone conference on December 11, 2010, 1400 UTC.
Current agenda items:
- Support models and how to organise this on an international basis
- Bylaws State of Affairs
Information for dial-in:
Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 15:14
As previously reported here the Apache Software Foundation threatened to leave the JCP if Oracle would not allow the ASF to use the TCK toolkit for usage for the open source project Harmony that is licensed under the GPL.
ASF called for the other members to support them in voting against Java 7 and 8 until Oracle would abide by its contractual obligations as stated by the ASF.
Submitted by txwikinger on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 10:31
While this blog has made not assessment and does not intent to provide any opinion about the merits and problems with the latest Wikileaks publications, it is important to reflect about the more general issues at hand.
It seems that initiated by the latest publications by Wikileaks, there is a danger of a full-out information war. In question here is who can decide what information should be available to the public and what is not.
Submitted by txwikinger on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 13:55
The Canadian Ubuntu LoCo Team has moved its website to a new server. This allows more flexibility for the future of what the website will be able to offer to Canadian Ubuntu users and other interested parties.
The move has also allowed the transfer to drupal 6 (drupal 7 upgrade is pending) and the usage of a new theme leaning on the official Ubuntu theme.
Submitted by txwikinger on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 13:36
US Representative (and incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee) Peter King has requested the US State Department to classify Wikileaks as a terrorist organization. While the topic of this article is not a discussion of the merits of this request, which is reported about by cnet ,
nevertheless, this request raises some interesting questions, that should be asked in a broader scope.
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