Lilux-info August 2004

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by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, according to Heise, Munich puts it's Linux migration project on hold, because of a risk analysis regarding software patents. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/49735 Thanks to the german federal government for that one :-( Greets Eric

19 years, 9 months

Announcement Linux Kongress 2004

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi all, http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004/ The Linux Kongress is taking place from September 7th to 10th in Erlangen, Germany. It is a very technical series of tutorials and presentations. (Very) High-level people from the Linux (I might add GNU/, but there really are kernel guys ;-)) developers community will be there to present their work. The proceedings are in english. If you're interested, be quick to register & pay, as it will get you a tariff reduction - no reduction available for being LiLux member, I'm afraid. Greetings, Eric

19 years, 9 months

HP & Linux Notebook

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, something long awaited has come true - a large company finally brings us a notebook with GNU/Linux preloaded: <http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/04/08/03/2351243.shtml?tid=163&tid=173&tid=…> <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/08/03/fin…> "The HP notebook is available in North America through HP's online store and to international customers on request." Greetings, Eric

19 years, 9 months

[Fwd: EU Software Patents Jeopardise Munich's Linux Migration; FFII Patent Search Triggers Motion by Munich Alderman]

by Serge Marelli

Voilà, un nouvel argument contre les brevets logiciels, respectivement pour si on s'appelle MSFT. Serge -----Forwarded Message----- From: Florian Mueller <florian(a)mysql.com> To: 'Bxl' <bxl(a)ffii.org> Subject: EU Software Patents Jeopardise Munich's Linux Migration; FFII Patent Search Triggers Motion by Munich Alderman Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:06:30 +0200 FFII Patent Search Triggers Motion by Munich Alderman EU Software Patents Jeopardise Munich's Linux Migration Munich, 07/30/2004 -- When the city administration of Munich decided to migrate its IT infrastructure to the Linux operating system, it made headline news around the world. That project is now being threatened by a proposed European Union directive on software patents. The directive is pushed for by the governments of Germany, the UK, France, and other countries on the EU Council. Software patents are considered the greatest danger to the usage and development of Linux and other Free Software. A cursory search by FFII revealed that the Linux "base client", which the city of Munich plans to install on the desktop computers of approximately 14,000 employees, is in conflict with more than 50 European software patents. Today Jens Muehlhaus, an alderman from the Green Party, filed two motions in which he calls on the mayor of Munich, the Social Democrat Christian Ude, to contact the federal government of Germany on this matter and to analyse how the EU software patent directive affects Munich's Linux project. The politician, a supporter of open source, warns that patent infringement assertions could take entire departments of the city administration out of operation. He attached the preliminary result of FFII's patent search to his motions. Mr. Muehlhaus expresses concern over the future ability of open source software to meet the needs of the city administration if software patents massively hinder its development. Related caveats have been voiced by the SME association CEA-PME and by Deutsche Bank Research. A week earlier, the chief information officer of Munich, Wilhelm Hoegner, said it is "indispensable" to check on the consequences of the software patent directive to open source software. Any such oversight would be a "catastrophe for Munich's Linux migration project, and for open source in general". Florian Mueller, an active participant in the software patent debate, sees the EU Council on the wrong track: "Open source is a historic opportunity for Europe to save costs and create jobs. Schroeder, Blair and Chirac should demonstrate leadership and stop their civil servants from sacrificing the open source opportunity to the insatiable patent bureaucracy, lest some large corporations will shut down open source and many SMEs." Mr. Mueller is a software entrepreneur, and an adviser to Europe's largest open source software company MySQL. http://kwiki.ffii.org/Limux040730En _______________________________________________ bxl mailing list (un)subscribe via http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/bxl and http://aktiv.ffii.org/. If you subscribed via the latter, you can unsubscribe only by going to both. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux, Luxembourg LUG : http://www.linux.lu/ Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/

19 years, 9 months

[Fwd: Open group + IBM's declaration of independence]

by Serge Marelli

Chers zamis, membres z'et lecteurs, Je vous fais suivre ce petit message qui pourrait vous intéresser... un appel (pétition) pour l'utilisation de standards et méthodes de traitement de données ouverts... Ca vaut peut-être la peine de jeter un oeil Serge -----Forwarded Message----- I've read about a (new?) statement by OpenGroup and IBM which is looking for developers to sign it. It's an endorsement to standards and open data processing. http://www.opengroup.org/declaration/declaration.htm Apparently Open Group (Posix certification, etc.) used to be less than nice to the free software community but changed policy one year ago (I don't know for real, I've read it somewhere). I forgot whether Open Group had any stated position on swpats (which are an impediment to open standards ). I wonder if this declaration means that IBM wants EP amendment 6a on interoperability... Did anybody hear more about this ? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux, Luxembourg LUG : http://www.linux.lu/ Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/

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