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)
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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)
(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)
(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)
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)
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