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ACTA Ratification Suspended by Czech Republic-> 0

Submitted by tykev on Monday February 06, @10:39AM

tykev writes "The Czech government suspended the ratification process of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA, said Prime Minister Petr Necas today. The government wants to further analyze the issue. There were a number of public demonstrations against ACTA in several Czech towns, and some Czech Euro MP's oppose ACTA as being ‘completely wide of the mark’. Earlier, Poland announced its intention to suspend the ratification process as well. In the meantime, the website of the ruling Czech Civic Democratic Party was attacked and defaced by Anonymous who also publicly released personal data of the party's members."
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Universities Choose Thin Clients to Cut Costs-> 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2010, @06:07AM

An anonymous reader writes "Raydesk, a virtual desktop solution based on open source components, has been selected by universities and other public organizations (in the Czech Republic) to run energy-saving thin-client infrastructures. Raydesk is capable of integrating apps from many different operating systems (including Linux, Solaris, QNX, Windows, and others) in one user workspace. The recently released new version, Raydesk 3.0, further simplifies deployment and administration in academic environments, while bringing a number of new features for end-users."
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BSA: Hardware Without Software Not Tax Deductible-> 3

Submitted by tykev on Wednesday May 26 2010, @02:22AM

tykev writes "The Czech Ministry of Finance along with the BSA threaten to disallow deducting hardware from base tax if purchased without software. This idea stems from their joint proclamation that for software to be used legally, it must be bought – thus completely ignoring the existence of free and open source software which can be obtained legally without any purchase whatsoever. The Ministry and the BSA have issued a press release which basically labels all users of 'free software' pirates. Many public organizations and companies have expressed their dismay."
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Linus Says We Need to Worry about Kernel Quality-> 0

Submitted by tykev on Thursday January 29 2009, @09:40PM

tykev writes "Linus Torvalds said in interview at LCA 2009: "I think we need to worry about [the quality of the kernel code]. Because if we don't worry about it, I guarantee you that the quality will go down. I don't think it has but it's something we have to be careful about. We need to have Andrew bring it up. Every three months we need to ask 'Is our quality going down?'" In the rest of the interview Linus discusses, among other things, his preference for the recently merged btrfs over Ext4 and a date version numbering scheme for the kernel."
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Mark Shuttleworth on Goals and Success-> 0

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tykev

on Tuesday September 11 2007, @01:30AM

tykev writes "Mark Shuttleworth talks about success, failure, and the lessons he has learned. He gives his thoughts on Linux gaming, KDE vs. Gnome in Ubuntu, Microsoft's patent deals, the OpenXML format, and tivoization. From the interview: 'My interest is always in finding big changes in the world and then trying to accelerate them, and be part of them. [...] I won't start looking for another project until I'm comfortable that Ubuntu has fulfilled all its potential.'"
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Alan Cox on Patent Law and GPLv3->

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on Sunday June 10 2007, @05:03PM

tykev writes "Linux kernel guru Alan Cox talks about kernel features, cooperation with hardware vendors, and software patents. From the interview: "I don't think [Microsoft's patent threats] are the biggest danger. As Microsoft has been finding out recently it is the patent trolls, and organisations with buried patents in interesting areas that are the biggest threat in the USA. The real answer to that problem, however, is to pull the USA back into line with the majority of the world which simply does not recognize patents on software but respects them as literary works subject to copyright law. Also therefore we have to make sure the continuing US attempts to spread bogus patent law into the EU are defeated.""
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Andy Ritger of NVIDIA on Linux Driver Development->

Submitted by tykev on Monday June 04 2007, @05:04PM

tykev writes "The Director of Unix Software at NVIDIA talks about Linux drivers, planned features, development cycle, and the open-source Nouveau driver. "NVIDIA's stance is to neither help nor hinder Nouveau. We are committed to supporting Linux through a) an open source 2d "nv" X driver which NVIDIA engineers actively maintain and improve, and b) our fully featured proprietary Linux driver which leverages common code with the other platforms that NVIDIA supports.""
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