From: Michael Rand <mikerand@rcn.com>
  To  : <CPC@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 01:16:22 -0400

what Professor moglen is up to this week...

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3596081 

It's a Linux World
April 3, 2006
By Sean Michael Kerner



Yours truly and other Linux aficionados are in Boston this week for the love
fest known as Linux World Conference and Expo. 

This year's show is gearing up to represent the year of the ecosystem, as
there won't be any major distribution announcements from the Linux heavies. 

Red Hat released Fedora Core 5 last week and RHEL 5 is expected this summer.
And Novell unveiled SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 last week and its
community OpenSUSE distro just released beta 9 today. 

On the community side, Gentoo is already out, and Debian Etch is still
months away. 

But there will be plenty of news. 

Red Hat, which launched its flagship Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 (RHEL)
distribution at last year's show, is expected to make an announcement with
Intel. 

Novell, which has also used Linux World to launch its distributions and
expound its views in keynote speeches, is expected to make a number of
announcements on its own and with partners. 

Linux has been more than just an OS for some time. And based on some of the
initial buzz, one of the big themes out of the show this year will be
virtualization. 

Kevin Kettler, Dell CTO, will deliver a keynote about virtualization. A
hardware guy talking about how to virtually replicate hardware. Go figure.
Expect to see a whole lot of news early in the week on that topic. 

Other issues on tap include GPL version 3 in a session hosted by advocate
Eben Moglen. The proposed new GPL could have wide-ranging implications for
Linux. But then again it might not be considering that Linux creator Linus
Torvalds isn't exactly "enthusiastic" about the new license. 


Michael Rand
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