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Locating the Online Component

garym — Sun, 09 May 2004 01:17:02 -0400

Ah, well, _that_ was web-friendly! To get the skinny on how to join up with the online component, you have to _download the PDF file_ where it is indeed spelled out quite plainly in the sidebar of the 3-column print brochure:

bq. The conference will be webcast live worldwide and made available after the event in archive form using the KMDI ePresence interactive webcasting system http://epresence.kmdi.toronto.edu/

oh ... did they mention? Registration for the _webcast_ is $95 -- that should trim out the riff-raff, eh? Little wonder they left that gem for the fine-print footnotes of the PDF.

Ok, on second thought, I think I'll wait for the post-mortem blog distillations ... and maybe spend the $95 I don't have on mom.

Webcasted

garym — Sun, 09 May 2004 01:00:57 -0400

No hints as of midnight Saturday as to where and how this thing is going to be 'webcasted', and I note with some resignation that this 'comprehensive' program makes no mention of the community or _labour saving device and not product_ aspects that are the true meaning of free software -- hopefully this will surface and all we can do is revert to pre-dotbomb methodologies of polling the page over and over to find out what's going to be what with it.

You can watch for page updates here on the communiqué in the SiteCloud sidebar, especially as there's no blog, and no RSS feed, which I suppose is unsurprising considering this is a venue who see fit to _host_ their webbycasting on a "Windows Server 2003 running Microsoft-IIS/6.0":http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=http://osconf.kmdi.utoronto.ca/

Linus Torvalds Comments on SCO-Caldera's Linux-Related Allegatio

garym — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:31:10 -0500

MozillaQuest interviews Linus on the allegations and asks what sort of impact do you believe this sort of lawsuit filed by SCO-Caldera has on the Linux kernel, GNU/Linux, UNIX, and the Linux and free-software communities?...

None, really. The people I work with couldn't care less.

Copyright Vs. Community in the Age of the Computer Networks

garym — Sat, 08 Mar 2003 22:20:55 -0500

A transcript of Richard's talk is archived at Heath Row's Media Diet.

SCO wants to provoke a buy-out?

garym — Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:52:07 -0500

Maybe this isn't all that far-fetched ...

Maybe just maybe their senior execs have just gone out and bought huge shares in other Linux distros and now pull this stunt as a perfectly legal and un-Enron

Newsforge's Tina Gasperson quotes Bruce Perens:

So why is SCO doing this? Perens says they want to get bought - but get this - by IBM itself. Perens says that SCO, AKA Caldera, has always been run by investment firms. "This is [the current investment firm’s] exit strategy," he says. "IBM can buy them just to shut them up and finally own all of the Unix stuff."

Revisiting Unix c.1993

garym — Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:42:59 -0500

In the interest of a little fact-checking, Joseph S. Barrera III posted the following backgrounder to the FoRK List: I searched for this piece because I remembered Ritchie's comments, but read Gilmore's: and remember that Linux was still at 0.97 or so:

http://www.etext.org/CuD/Surfpunk/0023