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At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek and Jeff Gerhardt are back live tonight. We have a great show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!
Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the
week. The news segment will be expanded to cover about 45 minutes. Because of our unusual show last week, there is a lot of uncovered news. Tonight on the news: Judge: File-swapping tools are legal, Balmer: Linux? What Me Worry?, follow up to: “in search of Linux Laptops”, DARPA Cancels Project funding, The Internet makes for strange bed fellows (will disney save us), and way way more…..
Story Links
- Judge: File-swapping tools are legal Hilary Rosen Swears an appeal
- Windows 2003 command line version
- Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux – good let him think that.
- Firms call for open high-speed Net Yeah right, Disney is going to save us from the evil cable companies.
- The New Advertising– Google goes “Clue Training” (hey is that a new verb)
- Software Developer Fears Legal Tar Pit
- DARPA
cancels open-source software project funding - CodeWeavers Releases
CrossOver Office 2.0 - Will patents
pillage open source? - MS legal
threat derails Foxpro on Linux demo (from
listener Sean McHenry) - The
Oregonian: Stiff opposition derails open-source
measure - HB 2892: A Bill That Just Won’t Go Away (by past guest Cooper Stevenson)
- Linus Torvalds opens door to DRM
- Flame Linux on DRM
- SCO Clears Linux Kernel but Implicates Red Hat and SuSE – more SCO flap
- Nicholas Petreley on what Linux developers really want – you mean besides free beer?
- IBM adds new Linux centers
- IBM looks
to Japan for Linux progress - Linux PDA has Wi-Fi, camera and phone
- Why
I Love Professional Open Source - An apology from Novell’s
CEO– Open Mouth Insert Press Release
, er a foot. - Myths of Linux on the Desktop Clueless Pundit of the Week
Segment Two- The Road Ahead, Why We May Fail!
Tonight we are covering a special topic during our second segment, but there will be no guest. The regular panel will be engaged in a discussion moderated by Jeff. The general theme is: that even though we have experienced some gains in the last year, we have also lost several battles. The “war” of winning hearts and minds has only begun.
Two specific case points will be highlighted.
The first is the relative fatalistic attitude of the technology community. We are an intelligent and dynamic community, but when it comes to fighting for a cause, we seem to be as fatalistic as it gets. Bottomline, we do not get involved, and we DO NOT put our money where our mouth is. We have failed to support the groups that do our battles.
Second, is the problem of how we deal with Partisanship in our efforts to forward our causes. This is not a problem of people in the technology community persay, but it seems all Americans. The last 10 years have been a transition for the US. There is far too much hatered in the land. It has polluted the landscape. The recent impact of the anti and pro war marches in the US are evidence of this problem. The fringes command too much focus. We will NOT get our goals accomplished unless we can win friends in both American political parties. We are walking on a knife edge. If we fail, the stakes are very high.
How do we balance free speech (partisanship) with the politique?
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Near future: 05/13 Tom Liston of LaBrea
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