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Submission + - Swedish hackers in a squat fight eviction (hackerspaces.org) 4

Submitted by lekernel on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @07:15AM

lekernel writes: The newly opened Abbenay Hackspace in Stockholm has released a call for support in their struggle to keep their space. It was an empty office building until squatters moved in. The discussions with officials have stalled completely and the squatters live under the constant threat of police raids. Abbenay Hackspace is asking people to contact the landlord, and explain why creative spaces such as hackerspaces are important to them. Is there room for hackerspaces in major cities? Or is squatting the only viable strategy for hackerspaces in expensive areas?

Submission + - IBM says software patents drive OSS development (zoobab.com) 2

Submitted by

zoobab

on Monday August 17, 2009 @02:36PM

zoobab writes: "In its Amicus Brief to the US Supreme Court on the Bilski case, IBM is arguing that "patent protection has promoted the free sharing of source code [...] which has fueled the explosive growth of open source software development." IBM also argue that the machine-or-tranformation test allow software to be patented, and that "software patent protection provides significant economic, technological, and societal benefits". IBM also "finds alarming decisions in the wake of Bilski concluding that software is excluded from patentable subject matter" making references to the BPAI decisions on Ex Parte Altman. IBM also says thet are "committed to ensuring that such technology [software] is and remains patentable"."

Comment Screen+SSH+Vim (Score 1) 302

by zoobab on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @06:12AM (#28767559) Attached to: Collaborative Software For Pair Programming?

Remote Pair Programming Using SSH Screen Vim and Skype

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFClpADY7Tc

Submission + - Milkymist System-on-Chip reaches beta stage (milkymist.org)

Submitted by

lekernel

on Thursday July 09, 2009 @07:11AM

lekernel writes: "The System-on-Chip design of Milkymist, an open hardware platform for video performance artists, now has all the required features to implement many video effects. The next step for the project is to develop software that leverages the features of this architecture to render MilkDrop-like visual effects on a stand-alone FPGA development board in order to make the first good-looking demos using the system. For the FPGA hackers out there, the hardware design is entirely written in open source synthesizable Verilog. It notoriously features the LatticeMico32 WISHBONE-enabled softcore processor capable of running uClinux, a high performance DDR SDRAM controller, and graphics accelerators for texture mapping and floating point computations. A good introductory paper about the SoC architecture can be found here."

Comment Videos of last year (Score 1) 55

by zoobab on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @04:23AM (#28262761) Attached to: Paris Hosts the Second Hacker Space Festival

Some interesting videos of last year:

http://www.justin.tv/hackerspace/all

Comment Re: Cliche (Score 1) 55

by zoobab on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @04:05AM (#28262661) Attached to: Paris Hosts the Second Hacker Space Festival

That's the advantage of the location: at least the Bobos from Neuilly won't come because they don't go to Vitry :-)

Comment Plenty of 20 minutes slots for Lightning Talks (Score 4, Informative) 55

by zoobab on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @03:41AM (#28262549) Attached to: Paris Hosts the Second Hacker Space Festival

There are still plenty of 20 minutes slots for Lightning Talks to present your project:

http://www.hackerspace.net/lightning-talks

Submission + - Paris hosts the second Hacker Space Festival (hackerspace.net)

Submitted by

zoobab

on Monday June 08, 2009 @01:31PM

zoobab writes: "Hackers from all over Europe will meet at the end of the month (27-30 June) at the second Hacker Space Festival (HSF), in Paris. The four-day schedule includes conferences and workshops on: Metasploit, HostileWRT, FPGA for beginners, ICT disaster recovery, Software Patents in Europe, Hadopi, Anonymisation or how to produce your own biodiesel... The future of Hacker Spaces will also be debated. The event will be hosted by the first french hackerspace /tmp/lab, located in an industrial zone in the outskirts of Paris."

Submission + - Red Hat's plan for software patents in Europe (digitalmajority.org)

Submitted by

WMGarrison

on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @10:01AM

WMGarrison writes: "In 2005, as the battle over software patents reached its climax, Red Hat explained their plan for software patents: extend US-style patents to Europe, make software patents stronger and harder to defeat, and create an interoperability niche that would prevent patent claims on Windows-Linux interoperation. Instead of working with the Abolitionists — FFII, FSF, and hundreds of small software firms — to end software patents in Europe, Red Hat was working to rewrite the law and remove the protection from patents that Europe's small software sector had enjoyed until then."

Submission + - European Open Source Software Strategy leaked (wikileaks.org)

Submitted by

Elektroschock

on Friday February 27, 2009 @11:18AM

Elektroschock writes: "A working draft of the European Union Open Source Software Strategy was published by Wikileaks. According to Wikileaks meta information it was co-authored by Jonathan Zuck from the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), a lobby hitman for Microsoft; The European Commission lets ACT and CompTIA participate in all working groups of the European Open Source Strategy which defines Europe's future open source approach. A blue editor questions the objectives: 'Regarding the "Europe Digital Independence" our [working] group thinks it is, in general, not an issue.' "European digital independence" is a phrase coined by EU-Commissioner V.Reding, that is what her European Software Strategy (ESS) was supposed to be about. She didn't reveal that lobbyists or vendors with vested interests would write the strategy for the Commission. The leaked document's language on patent licensing sounds a bit odd and controversial to me given the recent frontal patent assaults on the European automative business by Microsoft."

Submission + - Microsoft will vote on Open XML

Submitted by

Elektroschock

on Monday November 19, 2007 @11:56AM

Elektroschock writes: "Rui Seabra reveals that the national standard organisation of Portugal plans to sent Microsoft as head of its ISO delegation to the Ballot Resolution meeting in Geneve. The Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) will work on amendments to the Open XML standard (DIS 29500) as put forward by ECMA International. The meeting will be held behind closed doors and last 5 days. While Microsoft would get privileged access and voting rights other interested stakeholders for instance Portuguese SMEs and software develoeprs are excluded from participation and review. The head of the delegation will exercise all voting rights for the nation, here Portugal. All national ISO members need to submit their list of delegates to ISO until Dec 11."

Submission + - Rodriguez slaughters Open XML

Submitted by

Elektroschock

on Saturday August 25, 2007 @02:42PM

Elektroschock writes: "Stephane Rodriguez, a reengineering specialist who became popular for his article on MS-Office 2007 binary data, slaughters Microsoft's new Open XML format. With small case studies he demonstrates the disadvantages for third party developers. His conclusion: It is 'defective by design'. Next week members of the International Standard Organisation are likely to approve the format as a second official ISO standard for office documents. However, most nations submitted comments. Rodriguez claims to be "not affiliated to any pro-MS or anti-MS party/org/ass"."

Submission + - Two standards - more choice, or less?

Submitted by

pieterh

on Wednesday June 27, 2007 @07:40AM

pieterh writes: "There's a fierce argument raging about whether the world needs a single document standard (ISO26300), or two. On the one hand, advocates of Microsoft's 'Office Open XML' (aka OOXML) format say that two standards means more choice for consumers. On the other hand, groups like the FFII argue that two standards for documents is not really about consumer choice, and more about maintaining Microsoft's office monopoly. There has also been harsh criticism of Microsoft's format, a petition that has raised 10,000 signatures in a week, and the promise of a cash prize in the fight against OOXML."

Submission + - Say No to OOXML as a Standard

Submitted by topcat-n-ep on Tuesday June 26, 2007 @01:40PM

topcat-n-ep writes: Every oppression ultimately wades away in the tide of a revolution.Open source has been the revolution answering to the oppression of proprietary monopolies. Now the Borg tries to rise again using its old trick of assimilating innocent consumers. By proposing their OOXML format as a standard they hope to counter Open Source initiatives like the ODF standard — standards that have no ulterior motive other than benefiting the consumer. It is the job of all us Captain Kirks — captains of a fair world, to boldly kick them.....in line ;). Please take the time to go through the worldwide petition against OOXML as a standard at http://www.noooxml.org/petition

Submission + - OOXML evaluation (fsfeurope.org)

Submitted by

H4x0r Jim Duggan

on Tuesday June 26, 2007 @11:24AM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "With the holiday season about to make consensus work impractical, most national standards groups will decide in the next week or two whether to recommend MS's OOXML format for ISO standardisation. There's been a lot of private lobbying, and none has made MS's 6,000 page standard easy to review. With that in mind, FSFE have published Six questions to national standardisation bodies. If they think MS's standard answers "yes" to each question, they should approve. If not, they should reject. There's also a petition."

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