About
Welcome to Panela, Matt Harrison's take on mostly Open Source, Linux, Python, innovation in those areas, other buzzwords and Dick Proenneke. It comes complete with the illustrations as needed. Note the opinions expressed here are merely my opinions and not the opinions of my employer.
about MattMy RSS Feeds
In Russia Open Source rescues you
Given that MS is cracking down on poor Russians (which is weird since rampant piracy of their products only serves to promote their monopoly), I would've thought that some open source vendor would jump in to rescue Mr. Ponosov (head of school master in rural Russia charged with stealing software).
Seems like RH, Novell or Canonical(?) would come in and say, "We'll pay your $10,000 in fees to MS but will also give you free software for your whole school district." Sounds like some good cheap marketing once the news people pick it up....
(The Steve could one up everyone and say not only does he hate DRM, he supports free (gratis) software.... as long as you buy the hardware)
I'm a friend of Alan Willamson and he seems to have gone AWOL. Can you ask
him to contact JOhn Gallagher in England if you know where he is.