[Discuss] Some interesting stories for today

[Alan W. Irwin]

"Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider" (http://lwn.net/Articles/208958/).  One
more negative response to the Novell/MS deal by those who care about software
freedom.

>From the better late than never department.... "Sun releases Java under
GPLv2" (http://lwn.net/Articles/208977/). Whatever the motivations of Sun,
it is a great day for software freedom.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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