The SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center, the ‘legal arm’ of the FSF) lawsuit against Cisco Systems (nasdaq:csco) has been settled . The details are not yet available.
Related:
December 11, 2008: SFLC files lawsuit against Cisco Systems on the behalf of FSF. The complain is available as PDF
December 11, 2008: FSF publish a press release.
May 12, 2009: recap of the settlement on PROSKAUER ROSE NewMedia law blog.
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SFLC vs Cisco
CloudComputing @ LibrePlanet – Mako Hill talk
Mako Hill on cloud computing @ LibrePlanet
Keyword: Affero GPL, autonomo.us, cloud computing, software services.
Interesting talk covering a very very wide array of topic, from “free software usage in provider infrastructure” to “usage freedom of networked services” going through “ownership problems of user data on networks”.
It brings out quite a few important points about network services closed infrastructure (even if it use free software and are open about it). This is very important because it underline differences between Laconica and Twitter, between Amazon and more open infrastructure…
I’ll need quite some time to digest this talk and think about the implication about cloud computing. While I’ve been working in this domain for couples years, pushing free software mentality to services (not only the software) is quite interesting and important for the future of cloud computing.
LibrePlanet
@ LibrePlanet ;
Je suis présentement @ Cambridge, à quelques minutes de Boston, pour la rencontre annuelle (LibrePlanet) de la Free Software Foundation (dont je suis un donateur et membre). Je suis ici avec ma copine (Catherine) et avec Yannick Gingras. Shame on Francois for not coming!
Sans faire une session de live blogging vraiment poussée, je devrais faire quelques posts en rafalle dans les prochaines heures…
Pour l’instant, on écoute une présentation de Jeremy Allison – du project Samba (et de Google) au sujet de Microsoft Windows et de leur ouverture/fermeture dans le domain du free software et des brevets. C’est très général, mais un bon talk pour lancer une conférence en résumant les issues (et opposant) du mouvement.
Libre Planet 2009 = little road trip
Kind of missed this one earlier,
FSF annual meeting (Libre Planet 2009 Conference) will be held at Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA – in 2 weeks! (21-22 March 2009).
Since I’ve been working in the free software domain for quite a few years, I’ll be going to the “conference”. Right now, we got a driver (my girlfriend), a geek (Yannick Gingras) and maybe a tech… Sound like a nice little road trip…
Evidently, I’ll be live blogging from there. Some pretty interesting presentations are lined-up – one from our local “Evan”, of Identi.ca fame.