[Discussioni]News from Debian GNU/Linux world

[Franco Vite]

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> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:12:01 +0200
> From: Martin Schulze <*****************>
> Subject: Debian Weekly News - July 16th, 2003
> To: Debian News Channel <debian-news a lists.debian.org>
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> Debian Weekly News
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> Debian Weekly News - July 16th, 2003
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> The Organizational Model for Open Source. Harvard Business School
> professor Siobhán O'Mahony [5]discusses her research on foundations
> formed around the projects: Debian, GNOME and Apache. She says that
> hackers who contribute to the open source community are often
> intrinsically motivated. It is important to realize, however, that
> hackers are a diverse group. It is not safe to generalize about all of
> the values that hackers share, but they tend to agree on at least one
> thing: Respect must be earned and cannot be derived from position.
> 
>  5. http://workingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3582&t=technology
 
 [...]

> Decision on Software Patents in Europe. The European Parliament has
> [10]postponed the vote on the software patent directive back to the
> original date of 1st of September. Members of Parliament from all
> parties had complained that it was impossible to react adequately
> within a timeframe of 10 days. Many software professionals have been
> contacting their Members of Parliament in recent days and told them
> how software patents would hurt them.
> 
>  10. http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0626/
> 
> Debian in German Government IT guidelines. The [11]KBSt, a consulting
> agency for IT within the German government includes Debian in their
> small roundup of GNU/Linux distributions in their recently
> [12]published migration [13]guidelines (large PDF file in German).
> Aside from mentioning that Debian is a volunteer effort, it lists the
> freeness of Debian, the bug tracking and handling, the high quality,
> the long release cycles, and the package system. It says: "Debian is
> one of the most stable and bug free distributions. Long release cycles
> are characteristic to Debian, which entails the high quality of the
> distribution."
> 
>  11. http://www.kbst.bund.de/
>  12. http://www.itworld.com/Man/2685/030710germanopensource/
>  13. http://download.bund.de/mlf_v1_de.pdf
 
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> EICAR Installer for Debian. Marc Haber [17]reported that the installer
> package for anti-virus test file from the [18]European Institute for
> Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) was rejected. A native package is
> [19]not possible due to a missing license, and an installer package
> for only a few kilobytes is not appreciated either.
> 
>  17. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0307/msg00170.html
>  18. http://www.eicar.com/
>  19. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0307/msg00377.html

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