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3 December 2006

GNU/Solaris and GPLv3

I found an interesting article at The Register yesterday, "Is 'GNU/Solaris' emerging from the Microsoft-Novell deal?" It would be awesome if Sun released the Solaris kernel under the GPLv3, because I think that would be a chance to observe differences between idealistic and pragmatic approaches to free software.
Looking around, I see Linux Today picked [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 3 December 2006 at 2:45 pm
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26 October 2006

Review: Linus Torvalds, 'Just for Fun'

Just for FunLinus Torvalds
Welcome to my inaugural minimalist review. I recently finished reading Just for Fun, by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. "The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary." Now it's time to blurt out a few comments.
(Remember: minimalist may refer to the small amount of substantive content rather than the word count. [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 26 October 2006 at 3:15 am
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