Hi all,
I just had a phone discussion w/Anne Ostergaard. She has been invited
to go to http://www.freesoftwareworldconference.com/?q=node/26 and
asked whether she can represent FSFE there.
She wants to do more with FSFE and I think we want to work more with
her in the future, so I proposed that she could present herself as
"member of the Scandiavian Team of FSFE" at the workshop.
I hope this is okay with you. If it is not, please let me know.
Regards,
Georg
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Hello!
Yesterday I attended the panel debate at Jfokus[1]. I did listen to
some seminars as well. The keynote by Simon Phipps[2] was the one I
remember best. The other was more technical about Java and no-one of
then mentioned that Java now is going to be free software.
The panel debate went well (I think I did ok). The focus in it was not
like I thought. There were no questions about software patents[3] or the
choice of license, well there were a question about the license but all
agreed that it was good that Sun choose a good free software copyleft
license.
Simon Phipps, who was sitting next to me, mentioned that Java might be
released under other licenses as well and is already dual-licensed. He
also mentioned that OpenSolaris also might be released under GPL.
Currently there were some issues but he thinks they might be solved in
GPLv3 (he seems very positive about v3).
Phipps was the one that said the most. He used the term free software
often, well he did sit next to me :), and also said to one other panel
member that they misuse the name Linux. He said that Java would run
under the GNU system even with other kernels than Linux (probably
referring to GNU/OpenSolaris distributions, but he also mentioned the
Debian GNU/BSD).
There was one question to me that I got stuck answering. The question
was if I thought that Sun should have done this earlier. I was surprised
by the question and said that I would have liked it to happen earlier
but better late then never.
Sun held a dinner on Tuesday that was very nice, also the event
yesterday was very good. About 470 persons attended.
/Marcus
[1] http://www.jfokus.se
[2] http://www.webmink.net/
[3] Phipps mentioned software patents in his keynote very briefly. He
said that corporations needs them because corporations have them. He
said that they are indeed bad, but is here and will be, so he told us to
"get over it".
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Hi all,
please welcome to this list Christof Thim who will be working with the
FSFE as an intern in Sweden from mid-march.
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