August 10, 2006, 09:30
OpenVZ and Debian... Guido presents... GPLv3 discussions... AOL privacy nightmare
OpenVZ is now part of the Debian Unstable repository. OpenVZ has really come a long way since it was open sourced late last year. I'm sure that having OpenVZ packaged up for Debian will bring a whole lot more developers who may already be familiar with VServers.
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Guido Van Rossum in a recent presentation about Python 3000. He was also interviewed recently in the FLOSS Weekly podcast.
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A good discussion on Slashdot entitled 'Torvalds Critiques of GPLv3 and FSF Refuted'. In a way, I much prefer Slashdot to Digg in that the format encourages intelligent commentary.
Some quotes and posts I particularly liked:
Remember that Linus created the Linux kernel. "Trying to build a Free Software system without Linux is trivial; I have three machines that I use regularly without a single line of proprietary code on them, and none of them runs Linux. Trying to build Free Software system without any GNU code is almost impossible."
Is Linus short-sighted? He holds a high a lot of respect. Will he change his mind? "The way Linus sees it is from the "developer" viewpoint. The code is
still free from this viewpoint, since all modifications are published.
You can modify it and run it on a DRM-free machine.
That's
the short-sightedness of Linus' argument (the same short-sightedness
that let him get trapped by the Bitkeeper fiasco). There are DRM-free
machines now, but that doesn't mean there will be in the future. If the
media companies have their way, every desktop computer will have a TPM
chip in it, and if you want to view things like HD-content, it has to
be enabled and running..."
UPDATE: Stallman, Torvalds, Moglen share views on DRM and GPLv3
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After reading a story about smug "$60 million" boy, I checked out Digg and found out that AOL released the search logs for 500,000 users (over a 3-month period) as a neat 460Mb download. The download's been taken down but by the time you read this it will be seeded heavily on BitTorrent. I downloaded a copy. It's not pretty. It's a privacy nightmare.
