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The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), convened by the United Nations at the urging of the International Telecommunications Union, intends to address the global economic, societal and political changes being wrought as our information-based society replaces the old industrial one. WSIS is a two-phase summit. Phase One takes place in Geneva, Switzerland, December 10 - 12, 2003. Phase Two will take place in Tunis, Tunisia in November, 2005. A key concern of both phases is to address the "digital and knowledge divides" that are growing as the information society continues to expand. Until recently, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), was to play a major role in WSIS's plans for closing these information gaps. Evan Leibovitch, President of the Linux Profession... (more)

To Whom It May Concern

U R G E N T    A P P E A L Distributed Denial of Service Attacks against SCO, or anyone for that matter, are a clearly unacceptable activity. While many in the Open Source community are not pleased with SCO's lawsuit against IBM, or their proposed legal challenges aimed at Linux users, these DDoS attacks do not promote the Open Source cause, and are not consistent with Open Source values. ... (more)

Open Source Is Not a Magic Bullet

(May 19, 2003) - Java developers like open source software. To varying degrees, anyway. For some, the attraction is free-as-in-speech; for others, it is free-as-in-beer. None of this should come as a surprise to you, and I'm certainly not the first person to make this observation. Nor will you be surprised when I say that many developers believe the open source software is necessarily be... (more)

It's Sure Not for Cats Who Walk by Themselves-- Software development. . .it takes a village --

(July 25, 2003) - It's a truism to say that software development is a communal activity. Unfortunately, a lot of newer Java developers don't get it, which works to their own detriment and, potentially, to the detriment of the wider Java community. There's a stereotype of the hacker as a loner bent over his keyboard in a room dark but for the pallid glow of the monitor. This is only partly ... (more)

Good News for the Java Universe

You may have to dig beneath the hype a little, but at any gathering of 40 Java vendors there's bound to be some treasure buried in there somewhere. It's just waiting for you to find it. If you have children, you tend to measure time by their needs. The first day of summer camp I was at the Web Services Edge 2002 East Conference (hope you found my "Show Report" helpful [JDJ, Vol. 7, issue ... (more)