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Mandrake founder discusses new distro

Submitted by nanday on Friday December 08 2006, @08:52PM

nanday writes "Gael Duval, the founder of the Mandrake distribution is looking to make his mark on GNU/Linux a second time. This time, it's with Ulteo, a distribution released in alpha earlier this week that's designed to simplify computing by doing the administration work for you. Duval discusses the inspiration for the new distro, and his future plans for it in an interview with Linux.com."

Dead Musicians signing petitions

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epeus

on Friday December 08 2006, @08:49PM

epeus writes "Following from the Gowers coverage and the Musicians' ad in the FT, Larry Lessig admits he was wrong about term extension:

If you read the list, you'll see that at least some of these artists are apparently dead (e.g. Lonnie Donegan, died 4th November 2002; Freddie Garrity, died 20th May 2006). I take it the ability of these dead authors to sign a petition asking for their copyright terms to be extended can only mean that even after death, term extension continues to inspire.

I'm not yet sure how. But I guess I should be a good sport about it, and just confess I was wrong. For if artists can sign petitions after they've died, then why can't they produce new recordings fifty year ago?

Meanwhile, the Open Rights Group is running a Release The Music campaign, with a petition you can sign. There's also one asking for the right to privately copy CDs to iPods. Are Slashdot readers as good at signing petitions as dead musicians?"

White LED on a standard 240VAC->

by emj on Friday December 08 2006, @08:42PM

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Mandrake founder discusses new distro

Submitted by nanday on Friday December 08 2006, @08:39PM

nanday writes "Gael Duval, the founder of the Mandrake distribution is looking to make his mark on GNU/Linux a second time. This time, it's with Ulteo, a distribution released in alpha earlier this week that's designed to simplify computing by doing the administration work for you. Duval discusses the inspiration for the new distro, and his future plans for it in an interview with Linux.com."