“These laws originated separately, evolved differently, cover different activities, have different rules, and raise different public policy issues. Full Article at LXer

Jason Perlow is a technologist with over two decades of experience integrating large heterogeneous multi-vendor computing environments in Fortune 500 companies. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations. Full Article at ZDNet

According to an ongoing debate over the GPL version 3, he does. How can this be, since Linus Torvalds, creator and chief architect of the Linux kernel, knows about software freedom and free software? Full Article at LXer

Some of the biggest disasters in IT were simply good ideas gone wrong, but others were ill-advised to begin with, says Jack Wallen. 4. Cobalt Qube The Cobalt Qube looked good. If you are lucky, you can still find one on eBay a bargain price. Full Article at ZDNet UK

The head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, says he will change the routine he goes through when speaking at conferences in order to avoid people misunderstanding what he means to convey. Full Article at iTWire

Sun Microsystems has been bleeding cash for months, as European regulators considered whether to allow Oracle to acquire it as planned. Full Article at E-Commerce Times

Has the terminology finally evolved in the debate over "who's open source?" It would seem so. Full Article at OStatic

PC Week's (now eWEEK's) birth year1984--was a busy one for technology. One platform that began to take shape at that time was focused not on hardware or software but on licensing. Full Article at eWeek

"Tech Comics: "Richard Stallman Visits a Shrink, by Oliver Widder, the creator of the Geek and Poke cartoon series. "Some people are more deeply affected by Windows 7 than others." Full Article at Internet.com

I was asked in an interview recently about "open source science" and it got me thinking about the ways that, in the "open" communities of practice, we frequently over-simplify the realities of how software like GNU/Linux actually came to be. Full Article at ScienceBlogs

"Those supporters say that MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius, free software advocate Richard Stallman, and others are whipping up unfounded fears about the future of MySQL in order to get the European Commission to either quash the entire deal or at... Full Article at Internet.com

A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle's pending takeover of the open source MySQL database. Full Article at InfoWorld

Two organisations, along with Free Software Foundation head Richard M. Stallman, have written to the European Commission, asking that Oracle not be allowed to acquire MySQL as part of its larger acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Full Article at iTWire

Richard Stallman makes a good bogeyman for the proprietary software people because he’s not politically correct. He shoots from the lip, as they say, considering contradiction a hobgoblin for little minds. Full Article at ZDNet

"Richard Stallman has no doubts: ""It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he told The Guardian. Full Article at Internet.com

Software freedom activist Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL. Why? Full Article at ZDNet

"The Open Rights Group calling for such blockage was joined by none other than the father of the free software movement, Richard Stallman. Full Article at Internet.com

Sun Microsystems will lay off up to 3,000 workers over the next 12 months as Oracle awaits approval from European regulators for its acquisition of the company. Full Article at ComputerWorld

Richard Stallman demanded the EU cut MySQL loose from Oracle yesterday in an open letter to Brussels' competition supremo Neelie Kroes. Full Article at The Register