Libre Planet part 1
Blogging live from Libre Planet. Here I am in attending Libre Planet in Cambridge with Pascal Charest. I will probably write a longer wrap-up later on but here is how it goes so far.
A very busy morning session starting with Jeremy Alison from the Samba project with a very nice presentation on what kind of strategy Microsoft is using to attack Free Software and how we can defend ourselves.
Benjamin Mako Hill did a presentation on the Affero GPL and how the definition of Free Software needs to be revised in a world where web-services makes it increasingly easier to let users work with your software without actually distributing it.
At this very moment, Alexandre Oliva is presenting Linux-Libre, a fork of the Linux kernel that is free from binary blobs and other non-free parts.
The laptop distribution in the audience is interesting in itself. I
see at least height eight Thinkpads, as many EEE 1000 of various flavors,
one EEE 700 that is impressively actively used, and at least 3 macs.
More to come.
eight is the word you were looking for ;) See you on monday at allez-up, have a nice week end at Planet Libre (hope I'll get a full review on monday).
Oh man, I already have so many stories to tell. Remind me to talk about the time when Wietse Venema won the Free Software award.