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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements OpenSolaris Governing Board resignsAs expected, due to Oracle's unwillingness to appoint a liaison to work with the board, the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) has resigned. From the resolution: "[...] Whereas, without the continued support and participation of Oracle in the open development of OpenSolaris, the OGB and the community Sun/Oracle created to support the open Solaris development partnership have no meaning, andWhereas the desire and enthusiasm for continuing open development of the OpenSolaris code base has clearly passed out of Oracle's (and thus this community's) hands into other communities [...]"
Articles of interest EFF: Apple seeking to patent spywareThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a release regarding a new patent application from Apple involving some interesting antifeatures. "Essentially, Apple's patent provides for a device to investigate a user's identity, ostensibly to determine if and when that user is 'unauthorized,' or, in other words, stolen. More specifically, the technology would allow Apple to record the voice of the device's user, take a photo of the device's user's current location or even detect and record the heartbeat of the device's user. Once an unauthorized user is identified, Apple could wipe the device and remotely store the user's 'sensitive data.'" The patent claims list jailbreaking explicitly as an "unauthorized" use.
HTC Files Answer with Counterclaims to Apple's Patent Infringement Suit (Groklaw)Groklaw has HTC's response to Apple's anti-Android patent infringement lawsuit. Naturally enough, they deny infringing anything and have launched a counterattack against the validity of several of the patents at stake. "You know how in the movies when two guys get into a fight on the street, another guy will run into a bar and yell, Fight! and everyone runs outside to watch? I feel like that guy reading this filing, because I see HTC intends to fight back."
Eben Moglen on what it takes to keep defending FOSS (opensource.com)Opensource.com has a writeup from Ruth Suehle on Eben Moglen's LinuxCon keynote, with extensive quotes from the talk, including: "It's crucial to the system to keep imagination in the businesses thinking of new ways to compete using free software. Nobody can get complacent. If we become complacent, we will fail the system of coexistence. We will fail the promise we have among ourselves that the people making freedom can also help the people who love business."
The dirty little secret about Google Android (ZDNet)Here's a ZDNet article claiming that the openness of Android is handing control back to carriers and handset manufacturers. "As a result, we now have a situation where the U.S. telecoms are reconsolidating their power and putting customers at a disadvantage. And, their empowering factor is Android. The carriers and handset makers can do anything they want with it. Unfortunately, that now includes loading lots of their own crapware onto these Android devices, using marketing schemes that confuse buyers (see the Samsung Galaxy S), and nickle-and-diming customers with added fees to run certain apps such as tethering, GPS navigation, and mobile video."
Talking KDE and openSUSE with Jos Poortvliet (Linux.com)Linux.com talks with Jos Poortvliet about his work on KDE and his new job as the openSUSE community manager. "Jos Poortvliet: I am, or rather was, the KDE marketing team lead. Since I have moved to Novell as their new openSUSE community manager, I will become less involved in KDE marketing as I move on to work in openSUSE. This will also mean I will have a closer relationship with GNOME. That is exciting - they have a very different approach to things but are also working more and more with the KDE community. I hope to foster that collaboration."
Linux Gets Google Voice, Video Chat (InformationWeek)InformationWeek reports that Google has made voice and video chat available for Linux. "Google's web-based voice and video chat service, a long-time staple for users of Windows and the Macintosh operating systems, now is available to Linux users. The free plug-in supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions. RPM support will be coming soon, said Tristan Schmelcher, software engineer, in a company blog."
Sony PS3 gets jailbroken to run Linux (The Inquirer)The Inquirer takes a look at way to run Linux on your PS3 without voiding the warranty. "According to PSX Scene a bunch of open source hardware hackers have released a dongle called PS Jailbreak that will turn the PS3 back into a Linux machine. The FAT32 file system is currently supported and they are working on NTFS. It works on current firmware but the dongle is fully updatable. It also allows ordinary online game play."
New Books Using SQLite--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has released "Using SQLite", by Jay A. Kreibich.
Upcoming Events 11.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit AnnouncedThe next Ubuntu Developer Summit will be held in Orlando, Florida, October 25-29, 2010. "The Ubuntu Developer Summit one of the most important events in the Ubuntu calendar and at it we discuss, debate and design the next version of Ubuntu. We bring together the entire Canonical development team and sponsor a large number of community members across the wide range of areas in which people contribute to Ubuntu."
Linux Plumbers Conference - Announcements and RemindersThe Linux Plumbers Conference Program Committee has announced the speakers for this year's conference. LPC takes place in Cambridge, MA, November 3-5, 2010. There's still time to submit topic proposals for the micro-conferences.
Events: September 2, 2010 to November 1, 2010The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Audio and Video programs GUADEC 2010 On DemandVideos from this year's GNOME Users' and Developers' European Conference (GUADEC) are available from Flumotion, in WebM format.
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