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Bruce Perens on the recent JMRI/GPL ruling: "For a decade there'd been questions: Are Open Source licenses enforceable at all? Are their terms, calling for a patent detente or disclosure of source code, legal? Are they contracts, which require agreement by all parties to be valid, or licenses, which are binding even if you don't agree to then? What legal penalties can a Free Software developer employ: only token damages, or much more? The court's ruling makes the answers to these clear. Did such weighty questions come up in cases involving IBM, Sun, HP, or Red Hat? No, this is the quirky world of Free Software: it was a court case about model trains."

"ConVirt is an intuitive, graphical management console providing comprehensive life cycle management for Virtual Machines and virtualization infrastructures. "

Three years ago Java was MIA in GNU/Linux, despite the best efforts of the fine Classpath folks. Today, "Can't Swing a Dead Cat without hitting a Distro with OpenJDK Included" according to Barton. Amazing. That's the power of choosing to go with the grain of the community. We chose the community's license, worked with the communities' packagers and the rest is history.

stunning list of fsf recommended operating systems (not only *nix!) and 100% floss software/information

<sep/>that OpenJDK6 (aka Java SE) is now heading squarely for Debian main. That decision to use the GPL is paying off. Absolutely awesome, fantastic work everyone (yes, including the IcedTea folks too<sep/>