, and the Free Software Foundation Europe , please keep in mind that this statement is my own, personal opinion — written exclusively by me — and not necessarily the opinion of either of thos...
. ] BAD EARLY COURT DECISION FOR AGPLV3 HAS NOT YET BEEN APPEALED We at Software Freedom Conservancy proudly and vigilantly watch out for your rights under copyleft licenses such as the Affero...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2022/03/30/neo4j-v-purethink-open-source-affero-gpl.html
where I work. ] I've been concerned this week about aggressive negative reaction (by some) to the formation of an additional organization to serve the Free and Open Source (FOSS) community. Th...
. I hope you will donate now before the challenge match period ends so that you can support work like this that I'm doing at my day job. ] I would not have imagined even two years ago that ex...
Yesterday, I sent out a version of this blog post to Conservancy's donors as a fundraising email. As most people reading this already know, I work (remotely from the west coast) for a 501(c)(3) c...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/12/31/donate-conservancy.html
I ask that everyone give a thought to proposing at session at one (or both) of two great events on the Open Source and Free Software calendar: the FOSDEM Legal and Policy DevRoom and Copyleft Co...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/11/16/fosdem-copyleftconf.html
UPDATE IN 2023: Careful readers will note that at the time I made this original post (which remains in full below), I did not disclose the precise circumstances of how I came to no longer be a Vo...
This post is co-authored with my colleague, Karen M. Sandler, and is crossposted from Software Freedom Conservancy's website . Various companies and trade associations have now launched their o...
We create, develop, document and collaborate as users of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) from around the globe, usually by working remotely on the Internet. However, human beings have many m...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/05/10/delta-union-busting.html
I'm reposting here just for the convenience of those who are subscribed to my RSS feed but not get Conservancy's feed. ] Yesterday, the Linux Foundation (LF) launched a new service, called “...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/03/13/linux-foundation-community-bridge.html
I woke up early this morning, and those of you live above 45° parallel north or so are used to the “I'm wide awake but it's still dark as night” feeling in the winter. I usually don't turn o...
I have until now avoided making a public statement about my views on the various interrelated issues regarding the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines that came up over the last month. However, giv...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2018/11/22/gnu-kind-communication-guidelines.html
. ] More than 15 years ago, Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) community activists successfully argued that licensing proliferation was a serious threat to the viability of FLOSS. W...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2018/10/16/mongodb-copyleft-drafting.html
. ] Folks lauded today that Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN)'s limited patent non-aggression pact , suggesting that perhaps it will bring peace in our time regarding Micros...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2018/10/10/microsoft-oin-exfat.html
. ] In recent weeks, I've been involved with a complex internal discussion by a major software freedom project about a desire to take a stance on social justice issues other than software freed...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2018/08/30/on-social-justice-software-licensing.html
. ] Proprietary software has always been about a power relationship . Copyright and other legal systems give authors the power to decide what license to choose, and usually, they choose a licen...
Yesterday, we lost an important member of the FLOSS community. Gervase Markham finally succumbed to his battle with cancer (specifically, metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma). I met Gerv in th...
Someone linked me to this blog by a boutique proprietary software company complaining about porting to GNU/Linux systems , in which David Power, co-founder of Hiri, says: > Unfortunately, the...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2018/07/23/butchers-and-vegans.html
If you're one of the people in the software freedom community who is attending O'Reilly's Open Source Software Convention (OSCON) next week here in Portland, you may have seen debate about O'Reil...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2018/07/12/oscon-no-politics-allowed.html
My friend, colleague, and boss, Karen Sandler, yesterday tweeted about one of the unfortunately sexist incidents that she's faced in her life. This incident is a culmination of sexist incidents ...
Earlier this year, in February, I wrote a blog post encouraging people to donate to where I work, Software Freedom Conservancy. I've not otherwise blogged too much this year. It's been a rough y...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2017/12/31/donate-conservancy.html
It's fortunately more common now in Free Software communities today to properly value contributions from non-developers. Historically, though, contributions from developers were often overvalued ...
. ] I am honored to be a co-author and editor-in-chief of the most comprehensive, detailed, and complete guide on matters related to compliance of copyleft software licenses such as the GPL. Th...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2017/04/25/liberate-compliance-tutorials.html
I encourage all of you to either listen to or read the transcript of Terry Gross' Fresh Air interview with Joseph Turow about his discussion of his book “The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Tr...
There are a lot of problems in our society, and particularly in the USA, right now, and plenty of charities who need our support. The reason I continue to focus my work on software freedom is sim...
. ] As I mentioned in an earlier blog post , I had the privilege of attending Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELC EU) and the OpenWrt Summit in Berlin, Germany earlier this month. I gave a ta...
. ] Last month, Conservancy made a public commitment to attend Linux-related events to get feedback from developers about our work generally, and Conservancy's GPL Compliance Program for Linux ...
There are plenty of mailing list threads to read, and I don't actually recommend the one that I'm talking about. I think it went on too long, was far too “ad hominem” rather than real policy....
Last Friday, I gave the first keynote at GUADEC 2016. I was delighted for the invitation from the GNOME Foundation to deliver this talk, which I entitled Confessions of a command line geek: why I...
The time has come that I must speak out against the inappropriate rhetoric used by those who (ostensibly) advocate for FLOSS usage in automotive applications. There was a catalyst that convince...
. ] Monday 1 February 2016 was the longest day of my life, but I don't mean that in the canonical, figurative, and usually negative sense of that phrase. I mean it literally and in a positive w...
I've posted in the past about the Oracle vs. Google case. I'm for the moment sticking to my habit of only commenting when there is a clear court decision. Having been through litigation as th...
I'm finally configuring Kodi properly to watch over-the-air channels using this this USB ATSC / DVB-T tuner card from Thinkpenguin . I hate taking time away, even on the weekends, from the urgent...
. ] On last Thursday, Christoph Hellwig and his legal counsel attended a hearing in Hellwig's VMware case that Conservancy currently funds. Harald Welte, world famous for his GPL enforcement w...
I've been making the following social observation frequently in my talks and presentations for the last two years. While I suppose it's rather forward of me to do so, I've decide to name this pri...
. ] I've had the pleasure and the privilege, for the last 20 years, to be either a volunteer or employee of the two most important organizations for the advance of software freedom and users' r...
I have probably spent more time dealing with the implications and real-world scenarios of copyleft in the embedded device space than anyone. I'm one of a very few people charged with the task of ...
. ] I first met Ian Murdock gathered around a table at some bar, somewhere, after some conference in the late 1990s. Progeny Linux Systems' founding was soon to be announced, and Ian had invite...
If you've noticed my blog a little silent the past few weeks, I've been spending my blogging time in December writing blogs on Conservancy's site for Conservancy's 2015: Year in Review series . ...
I have something to say that I'm sure everyone is going to consider controversial. I've been meaning to say it for some time, and I realize that it's going to get some annoyance from all sides of...
. ] I'm quite delighted with my career choice. As an undergraduate and even in graduate school, I still expected my career extend my earlier careers in the software industry: a mixture of soft...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/11/26/conservancy-fundraiser.html
. ] Would software-related scandals, such as Volkswagen's use of proprietary software to lie to emissions inspectors, cease if software freedom were universal? Likely so, as I wrote last week ...
The issue of software freedom is, not surprisingly, not mentioned in the mainstream coverage of Volkswagen's recent use of proprietary software to circumvent important regulations that exist for ...
. ] In this post, I discuss one example of how a choice for software freedom can cause many strange problems that others will dismiss. My goal here is to explain in gory detail how proprietary ...
Most of you by now have probably seen Conservancy's and FSF's statements regarding the today's update to Canonical, Ltd.'s Ubuntu IP Policy . I have a few personal comments, speaking only for m...
Ben Cotton did an interview with me for opensource.com entitled How to win the copyleft fight—without litigation (archive.org link) .
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2015/07/14/opensource-com.html
I'm seeing plenty of people, including some non-profit organizations along with the usual punditocracy, opining on the USA Supreme Court's denial for a writ of certiorari in the Oracle v. Google ...
I've been otherwise impressed with John Oliver and his ability on Last Week Tonight to find key issues that don't have enough attention and give reasonably good information about them in an enter...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/06/26/john-oliver-gets-it-wrong.html
Apple announced last week that its Swift programming language — a currently fully proprietary software successor to Objective C — will probably be partially released under an OSI-approved lic...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/06/15/apple-is-not-our-friend.html
I watched the most recent Silicon Valley episode last night. I laughed at some parts (not as much as a usual episode) and then there was a completely unbelievable tech-related plot twist — quit...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/06/03/lyons-silicon-valley.html
I know this decision is tough, as all the candidates in the list deserve an award. However, I hope that you'll chose to vote for my friend and colleague, Karen Sandler, for the 2015 Red Hat Women...
It's amazing what we let for-profit companies and their trade associations get away with. Today, Joyent announced the Node.js Foundation , in conjunction with various for-profit corporate partner...
I suspect this information is of limited use because it's far too vague. I didn't even file it as a Debian bug because I don't think I have enough information here to report a bug. It's not dissi...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/01/02/hplip-wheezy-problem.html
I thought recently of a quote from a Sopranos' Season 1 episode, A Hit is a Hit , wherein Tony Soprano's neighbor proclaims for laughs at a party, Sometimes I think the only thing separating Amer...
Recently, I was forwarded an email from an executive at a 501(c)(6) trade association. In answering a question about accepting small donations for an “Open Source” project through their organ...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/12/03/conservancy-supporter.html
In an article entitled Groupon retreats from claim on Gnome Foundation trademarks (archive.org version ) Chris Duckett of ZDNet quoted extensively from My blog post, Groupon Tried To Take GNOME...
There is a lesson learned here, now that Groupon has (only after public admonishing from GNOME Foundation) decided to do what GNOME Foundation asked them for from the start. Specifically, I'd...
As always, when something takes me a while to figure out, I try to post the generally useful technical information on my blog. For the new copyleft.org site , I've been trying to get all the page...
Selena Larson wrote an article describing the Male Allies Plenary Panel at the Anita Borg Institute's Grace Hopper Celebration on Wednesday night . There is a video available of the panel (that'...
Historically, I used to write a blog post for each episode of the audcast, Free as in Freedom that Karen Sandler and I released. However, since I currently do my work on FaiF exclusively as a vo...
Years ago, I wrote a blog post about how I don't use Google Plus, Google Hangouts, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, LinkedIn or other proprietary network services . I talked in that post about how I'm u...
, and was cross-posted on Conservancy's blog . ] Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity that serves as a home to Open Source and Free Software projects. Such is ea...
Jake Edge of Linux Weekly News wrote an article about my LinuxCon North America 2014 talk , which was entitled entitled Fork and Ignore: Fighting a GPL Violation By Coding Instead . The slides ar...
]. Eleven days ago, Conservancy announced Kallithea . Kallithea is a GPLv3'd system for hosting and managing Mercurial and Git repositories on one's own servers. As Conservancy mentioned i...
I don't often say good things about the USPTO, so I should take the opportunity: the trademark revocation hack to pressure the change of the name of the sports team called the Redskins was a leg...
I've had my disagreements with Joyent 's management of the Node.js project. In fact, I am generally auto-skeptical of any Open Source and/or Free Software project run by a for-profit company. Ho...
]. For nearly a decade, a battle has raged between two distinct camps regarding something called Contributor Licensing Agreements (CLAs). I've previously written a long treatise on the issue ...
In keeping with my tendency to write a blog post about any technical issue I find that takes me more than five minutes to figure out when searching the Internet, I include below a resolution to a...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/06/08/volume-hotkeys-thinkpad-t60.html
I remind everyone today, particularly USA Citizens, to be sure to comment on the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) 14-28 . They even did a sane thing and provided an email address you c...
(Spoiler alert: spoilers regarding a 1950s science fiction short story that you may not have read appear in this blog post.) Mitchell Baker announced today that Mozilla Corporation (or maybe Mo...
. ] I have a strange relationship with copyright law. Many copyright policies of various jurisdictions, the USA in particular, are draconian at best and downright vindictive at worst. For examp...
Glyn Moody wrote an article for ComputerWorld UK entitled The Other Side of Openness: Licence Enforcement (archive.org link) about my old blog post about Conservancy's GPL enforcement , my tran...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2014/04/29/computerworlduk.html
“Open Source as Last Resort” appears to be popular this week. First, Canonical, Ltd. will finally liberate UbuntuOne server-side code, but only after abandoning it entirely . Second, Microsof...
Today, Conservancy announced the addition of Karen Sandler to our management team . This addition to Conservancy's staff will greatly improve Conservancy's ability to help Conservancy's many memb...
and Conservancy are mentioned, and that I have leadership roles at both organizations, these opinions on ebb.org , as always, are my own and don't necessarily reflect the view of FSF and/or Con...
Apparently, the company that makes my hand lotion brand uses coupons.com for its coupons. The only way to print a coupon is to use a proprietary software browser plugin called “couponprinter.e...
.] I came across this email thread this week , and it seems to me that Node.js is facing a standard decision that comes up in the life of most Open Source and Free Software projects. It inspire...
HEADJS V1.0.3 UPDATE (22 NOV 2013) Small but VERY important update that fixes issues with older browser when loading via Arrays, or using and Array of labels with .ready(). Callbacks now work ...
I read with interest Ashe Dryden's blog post entitled The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community 0 , and I agree with much of it. At least, I agree with Dryden much more than I agree with H...
HEADJS V1.0.2 UPDATE (13 NOV 2013) A small path release that fixes a reversion where the no-js class was not removed when js was detected. This was caused by a fix that corrects css classes gett...
I was disturbed to read that Canonical, Ltd.'s trademark aggression, which I've been vaguely aware of for some time, has reached a new height . And, I say this as someone who regularly encourages...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2013/11/08/trademark-aggression.html
HEAD.RESPONSIVE() V2.0.0-ALPHA (08 NOV 2013) v2.0 is gearing up and getting ready for prime-time. Currently playing with the new head.responsive() which will add a few things like height/width...
HEADJS V1.0.1 UPDATE (05 NOV 2013) A small point release that patches a long-standing problem with older IE versions. Browsers that don’t support async loading could potentially trigger the ca...
HEADJS V1.0.0 RELEASED (04 NOV 2013) It’s finally time for a v1 release ! First let me say that this release is way past due, so thank’s to all that reported features requests and bugs to ...
I recently upgraded to Debian wheezy . On, Debian squeeze , I had no problem using the stock Perl module Business::PayPal::API to import PayPal transactions for Software Freedom Conservancy, via ...
I'm thankful for Christopher Allan Webber for pointing me at this interesting post from Guillaume Lesniak, the developer of Focal (a once fully GPL'd camera application for Android/Linux), and...
Many have been asking for my comment on the relicensing by Oracle of Berkeley DB under AGPLv3 . I ultimately just put my thoughts into a post on debian-legal in the thread discussing what Deb...
I'd like to congratulate Harald Welte on yet another great decision in the Berlin court, this time regarding a long-known GPL violator called Fantec. There are so many violations of this nature t...
Matthew Garrett has a good blog post regarding Mir and Canonical, Ltd.'s CLA . I encourage folks to read it; I added a comment there .
Bruce Byfield interviewed me for story for Linux Magazine entitled Wanted: A Free Accounting Application for Non-Profits about Software Freedom Conservancy's fundraising campaign for NPO account...
MIGRATING TO JEKYLL (20 MAY 2013) If you are reading this, then you found the new site :) This site is in full migration, so don’t take heed of any content you may come across ..chances are ...
All this past week, people have been emailing and/or pinging me on IRC to tell me to read the article, The Meme Hustler by Evgeny Morozov . The article is quite long, and while my day-job duties ...
Nathan Willis wrote an article for Linux Weekly News entitled SCALE: The life and times of the AGPL (archive.org link) about my talk at SCALE 11x entitled AGPLv3: Why It Exists and Who It's For...
In 1991, I'd just gotten my first real programming job for two reasons: nepotism, and a willingness to write code for $12/hour. I was working as a contractor to a blood testing laboratory, where ...
In mid-2001, after working for FSF part-time for the prior year and a half, I'd actually just started working at FSF full-time. I'd recently relocated to Cambridge, MA to work on-site at the FSF...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/12/14/unamerican-mccarthyist-cancer.html
Back in the summer, there was a widely covered story about Judge Alsup's decision regarding copyrightablity in the Oracle v. Google case. Oracle has appealed the verdict so presumably this w...
Richard Fontana , Tom Marble , Karen Sandler , and I will reprise our roles as co-coordinators of the Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom for FOSDEM 2013 . The CFP for the FOSDEM 2013 Legal & Policy...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/12/03/fosdem-legal-policy.html
I heard something really odd today. I was told that a relatively large group of people find me untrustworthy and refuse to work or collaborate with me because of it. I heard this second-hand, ...
I first met the original group of VLC developers at the Solutions GNU/Linux conference in 2001. I had been an employee of FSF for about a year at the time, and I recall they were excited to tell...
As I've written about before , I am always amazed when suddenly there is widespread interest in, excitement over, and focus on some particular GPL violation . I've spent most of my adult life wor...
On last Friday 20 July 2012, I received an O'Reilly Open Source Award , in appreciation for my decade of work in Free Software non-profit organizations, including my current daily work at the So...
I generally try to avoid schadenfreude , but I couldn't resist here, because I think it proves a point that the problem of sexism in the software industry isn't confined to the Free Software comm...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/06/23/proprietary-software-sexism-too.html
As most readers might have guessed, my work at Software Freedom Conservancy has been so demanding in the last few months that I've been unable to blog, although I have kept up (along with my co-...
I'd like to thank Harald Welte for his reasoned and clear blog post about GPL enforcement which I hope helps to clear up some of the confusions that I also wrote about recently . Harald and I ...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/02/11/harald-on-enforcement.html
I've had the interesting pleasure the last 36 hours to watch people debate something that's been a major part of my life's work for the last thirteen years. I'm admittedly proud of myself for ...
This blog post is mostly just informational about a few oggcast releases and my upcoming talks and conference trips. Today Karen Sandler and I released Episode 0x20 of the Free as in Freedom o...
Over on Conservancy's blog , I just published a blog post entitled It May Be Boring, But Worth Reading Anyway . It discusses Conservancy's FY 2010 Form 990 , FY 2010 Independent Auditor's report ...
Today Karen Sandler and I released Episode 0x1E of the Free as in Freedom oggcast (available in ogg and mp3 formats). There are two important things discussed on that oggcast that I want to d...
Over on Conservancy's blog , I just published a blog post entitled What's a Free Software Non-Profit For? . It responds in part to what was written last week about non-profit homes for Free So...
Most folks outside of technology fields and the software freedom movement can't grok why I'm not on Facebook. Facebook's marketing has reached most of the USA's non-technical Internet users. On t...
One of my favorite verbal exchanges in an episode of The West Wing occurs in S03E08, The Women of Qumar . In the story, after President Bartlet said at a fundraiser: Everything has risks. Your ...
Those of you that follow my blog have probably wondered we're I've been. Quite frankly, there is just so much work going on at Conservancy that I have almost had no time to do anything but Conser...
I've not been particularly good at keeping up with this blog here, although I have generally kept up with the oggcast that I co-host with Karen Sandler , Free as in Freedom , which is released ev...
I realize nearly ten days after the end of a conference is a bit late to blog about it. However, I needed some time to recover my usual workflow, having attended two conferences almost back-to-ba...
I was pretty sure there was something wrong with the whole thing in fall of 2009, when they first asked me. A Nokia employee contacted me to ask if I'd be willing to be a director of the Symbian ...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/08/18/open-source-not-panacea.html
Unfortunately, Edward Naughton is at it again, and everyone keeps emailing me about, including Brian Proffitt, who quoted my email response to him this morning in his article . As I said in my ...
Jake Edge wrote a story for Linux Weekly News about a ©AA/CLA panel that I participated in at Desktop Summit 2011 .
At the 2000 Usenix Technical Conference (which was the primary “generalist” conference for Free Software developers in those days), I met Miguel De Icaza for the third time in my life. In th...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/08/05/living-in-the-past.html
fabsh was the first to point me at a slashdot story that is (like most slashdot stories) sensationalized . The story, IMO, makes the usual mistake of considering a GPL violation as an earth-sh...
UPDATE ON 2014-06-10:While this article is about a specific series of attempts to “unify” CLAs and ©AAs into a single set of documents, the issues raised below cover the gamut of problems th...
IDENTI.CA SUMMARY, 2011-06-26 THROUGH 2011-07-04 In response to my summary last week , @fontana started a subthread about multiple copyright holders solving proprietary relicensing issues (or, ...
Famously, the Gilligan's Island theme song , in its first season, left out mentioning the Professor and Mary Ann characters by name, simply including …And the Rest in that lyric where their nam...
IDENTI.CA SUMMARY, 2011-06-19 THROUGH 2011-06-26 The conversation that I mentioned last week about GPL for Javascript libraries continued in a new thread this week . The thread was rather long...
In November 2010, after I informed the GNOME Foundation that I'd like to submit some names of potential Executive Director candidates, Germán Póo-Caamaño invited me to serve on the GNOME Fou...
I was invited last week to keynote at the Sixth OpenFOAM Conference held at Penn State University in State College, PA. OpenFOAM is a computational fluid dynamics software package released und...
Simon Phipps , when I recently expressed surprise at how he makes 1.37 blog posts/day , suggested that I post enough to identi.ca to make them into blog posts that frequent . I doubt I'm going to...
Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier quotes me in an article entitled, Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy on the Linux.com blog. The discussion is about what's been happening with Conservan...
Brian Proffitt mentions me in an IT World article, Singling out OSS projects for FUD and profit , which responds to Mark Radcliffe's FUD about GPL and how it relates to Android. Correct, Brian, I...
Sam Varghese wrote a profile of me and my reasons for working on Free Software in IT Wire .
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2011/06/06/itwire-profile.html
Ryan Paul quoted me in an Ars Technica article entitled Oracle spurns LibreOffice, wants to give OOo to Apache Foundation . The quote is taken from my blog post on the topic.
I was disturbed today to read that Oracle will seek to relicense all OpenOffice code under the Apache-2.0 license and move OpenOffice into the Apache Software Foundation . I've written rec...
It's been some time since X made me hate computing, but it happened again today (well, yesterday into the early hours of today, actually. I got the stupid idea to upgrade to squeeze from lenny ...
Brett Smith of the FSF has announced a new tutorial available on the GNU website that gives advice about picking a license for your project . I'm glad that Brett wrote this tutorial. My typica...
I'm grateful to Brian Proffitt for clarifying some of these confusions about Android licensing . In particular, I'm glad I'm not the only one who has cleared up the confusions that Edward J. Nau...
I just returned a few days ago to the USA after one week in Germany. I visited Göttingen for my keynote at Samba XP (which I already blogged about ). Attending Samba XP was an excellent experie...
This morning, I gave the keynote talk at Samba XP . I was really honored to be invited to speak to Samba XP (the Samba Developers and Users Conference). My talk, entitled Samba, GPL Enforcemen...
Both RMS and I have been critical of Mono , which is an implementation of Microsoft's C# language infrastructure for GNU/Linux systems. (Until recently, at Novell, Miguel De Icaza has led a tea...
Those of you that follow me on identi.ca already know that I caught a rhinovirus , and was very sick while at the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit (LCS). Unfortunately, the illness got worse sin...
I was hoping to avoid having to comment further on this problematic story. I figured a comment as a brief identi.ca statement was enough when it was just a story on the Register . But, it's now ...
Today, I was interviewed by Sam Varghese about whether Red Hat's current distribution policies for the kernel named Linux are GPL-compliant. You can read there that AFAICT they are, and have bee...
I certainly deserve some of the blame, and for that I certainly apologize: the phrase “Open Core” has apparently become a slur word, used by those who wish to discredit the position of someon...
I've watched the game show, Jeopardy! , regularly since its Trebek-hosted relaunch on 1984-09-10. I even remember distinctly the Final Jeopardy question that night as This date is the first day o...
In the USA, the deadline for comments on ACTA is TODAY (Tuesday 15 February 2011) at 17:00 US/Eastern. It's absolutely imperative that every USA citizen submit a comment on this. The Free Softwar...
A while ago, I set up Git for a group privately sharing the same central repository. Specifically, this is a tutorial for those who would want to have a Git setup that is a little bit like a SVN ...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/01/23/git-shared-repository-tutorial.html
I realized that I should start regularly noting here on my blog when the oggcast that I co-host with Karen Sandler is released. There are perhaps folks who want content from my blog but haven't s...
Joe Brockmeier quoted me in a Network World article entitled Software Freedom Conservancy adds 25th member project.
. ] I had hoped to blog more regularly about my work at Conservancy, and hopefully I'll do better in the coming year. But now seems a good time to summarize what has happened with Conservancy ...
Jono Bacon is currently being criticized for the manner in which he launched an initiative called OpenRespect.Org . Much of this criticism is unfair, and I decided to write briefly here in sup...
Bruce Perens and I often disagree about lots of things. However, I urge everyone to read what Bruce wrote this weekend about software patents . I'm very glad he's looking deep into recent events...
I was glad to read today that Sam Varghese is reporting that Mark Shuttleworth doesn't want Canonical, Ltd. to engage in business models that abuse proprietary relicensing powers in a negative wa...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/20/open-letter-to-mark.html
I've been criticized — quite a bit this week, but before that too — for using the term “Open Core” as a shortcut for the phrase “proprietary relicensing0 that harms software freed...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/19/proprietary-relicensing.html
I've written before about my deep skepticism regarding the true motives of Canonical, Ltd.'s advocacy and demand of for-profit corporate copyright assignment without promises to adhere to copyle...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/17/shuttleworth-admits-it.html
. ] As can be seen in today's announcement , today is my first day as full-time Executive Director at the Software Freedom Conservancy. For four years, I have worked part-time on nights, weeke...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/04/first-conservancy-post.html
I'm well known for being critical when necessary about what happens in the software freedom community, but occasionally, there's nothing to do but thank someone, particularly when they've done so...
I first became aware of the Sun RPC license in mid-2001, but my email archives from the time indicate the issue predated my involvement with it; it'd been an issue of consideration since 1994. I ...
Many have already opined about the Oracle v. Google lawsuit filed last week. As you might expect, I'm not that worried about what company sues what company for some heap of cash; those sort of fo...
Vincent Untz announced and blogged today about the GNOME Copyright Assignment Policy and a longer guidelines document about the GNOME policy . I want to thank both Vincent and Michael Meeks f...
The Linux Foundation announced today their own FLOSS license compliance program , which included the launch of a few software tools under a modified BSD license . They also have offered some tra...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/08/10/may-they-make-me-superfluous.html
I often hear it. I have to use proprietary software, people say. But usually, that's a justification and an excuse. Saying have to implies that they've been compelled by some external force to do...
Articles on Linux Planet , Ars Technica , Network World , H-Oline , Linux Weekly News , IT Wire and Slashdot covered the story when Conservancy got a default judgment against Westinghouse for ...
Conferences are often ephemeral. I've been going to FLOSS conferences since before there were conferences specifically for the topic. In the 1990s, I'd started attending various USENIX conference...
LWN is reporting a GPL enforcement story that I learned about during last week while at GUADEC (excellent conference, BTW, blog post on that later this week ). I wasn't sure if it was really o...
I've written before about the software freedom issues inherent with Android/Linux . Summarized shortly: the software freedom community is fortunate that Google released so much code under Free So...
I sought out the quote below when Chris Dodd paraphrased it on Meet The Press on 25 April 2010. (I've been, BTW, slowly but surely working on this blog post since that date.) Dodd was quoting Fra...
TechDirt referenced my blog post about Bilski in a blog post entitled Reading The Bilski Tea Leaves For What The Supreme Court Thinks Of Software Patents .
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2010/07/02/reading-bilski.html
Lots of people are opining about the USA Supreme Court's ruling in the Bilski case . Yesterday, I participated in a oggcast with the folks at SFLC . In that oggcast, Dan Ravicher explained most o...
(These days, ) I generally try to avoid the well-known terminology debates in our community. But, if you hang around this FLOSS world of ours long enough, you just can't avoid occasionally gettin...
On Saturday 12 June 2010 at 09:00, I gave a talk at SouthEast Linux Fest entitled GPLv3: Better Copyleft for Users and Programmers.
A few years ago, I was considering starting a Free Software project. I never did start that one, but I learned something valuable in the process. When I thought about starting this project, I did...
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced yesterday a campaign to collect a clear list of OpenOffice.Org extensions that are FaiF, to convince the OO.o Community Council to list only FaiF e...
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols quoted me in an article entitled First, we kill all the patent lawyers .
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2010/05/03/patent-lawyers.html
I wrote 15 months ago thanking Canonical for their release of Launchpad . However, in the interim, a part of the necessary codebase was made proprietary, namely the authentication system used in ...
There are lots of evil things that proprietary software companies might do. Companies put their own profit above the rights and freedoms of their users, and to that end, much can be done that sub...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/04/07/proprietary-licenses.html
Seven and a half years ago, I got this idea: the membership of the Free Software Foundation should have a chance to get together every year and learn about what the FSF has been doing for the la...
Most of you are aware from one of my previous posts that It's a Wonderful Life! is my favorite film. Recently, I encountered something in the software freedom community that reminded me of yet a...
Boy, do I hate it when a FLOSS project is given a hard time unfairly. I was this morning greeted with news from many places that OpenSSL , one of the most common FLOSS software libraries used...
I started using GNU/Linux and Free Software in 1992. In those days, while everything I needed for a working computer was generally available in software freedom, there were many components and ap...
Leslie Hawthorn referred me to an excellent article by Jeremy Allison about Sun merging with Oracle . It was a particularly interesting read for me since, while I knew that Jeremy worked for Sun...
I just returned today (unfortunately on an overnight flight, which always causes me to mostly lose the next day to sleep problems) from SCALE 8x . I spoke about GPL enforcement efforts , and also...
I read with interest today when Linux Weekly News linked to Greg DeKoenigsberg's response to Mark Guzdial's ACM Blog post, The Impact of Open Source on Computing Education (which is mostly a s...
I was intrigued to read Greg Kroah-Hartman's analysis of what's gone wrong with the Android fork of Linux , and the discussion that followed on lwn.net . Like Greg, I am hopeful that the Android ...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/08/android-linux-google.html
I could not think of anything but the South Park quote, They took our jobs! when I read today Black Duck's announcement of their patent, Resolving License Dependencies For Aggregations of Legally...
In an interview with IT Wire, Mark Shuttleworth argues that all copyright assignment systems are equal, saying further that what Intel, Canonical and other for-profit companies ask for in the pr...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/01/copyright-not-all-equal.html
I suppose that I should have applied years ago to be a member of the GNOME Foundation . I have served since 2001 as the Free Software Foundation 's representative on the GNOME Advisory Board , an...
By the end of 2004, I'd been running Debian ‘testing’ on my laptop since around early 2003. For almost two years, I'd lived with periodic instability — including a week in the spring of 200...
Here are a few news stories that quoted me while covered the GPL enforcement lawsuit by SFLC and Conservancy in December 2009. internetnews.com pcmag.com computerworld.com arstechnica.com h-o...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2009/12/18/gpl-lawsuit-coverage.html
I probably won't comment too much on the specifics at this point, but I wanted to make sure everyone saw that Software Freedom Conservancy filed a lawsuit against fourteen GPL violators today (w...
I'd like to congratulate Rafael Rivera on his successful GPL compliance work regarding the Microsoft WUDT software , which is apparently used to make ISOs from stuff you downloaded from Microsoft...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/12/10/microsoft-gpl-enforcement.html
I've been thinking the last few weeks about the evolution of the GPL violation. After ten years of being involved with GPL enforcement, it seems like a good time to think about how things have ch...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/12/06/anatomy-gpl-violation.html
A slashdot story ran that covered (in part) my blog post about how to report GPL violations . The slashdot story links to the previous day's Ars Technica article by Ryan Paul , about that blog...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2009/11/10/gpl-violations.html
In one of my favorite movies, Office Space , Tom Smykowski (one of the fired employees) has a magic-eight-ball-style novelty product idea: a “Jump to Conclusions” mat . Sometimes, I watch dis...
Harald Welte knows more about development of embedded systems than I ever will. So, I generally defer completely to his views about software freedom development for embedded systems. However, as ...
My blog post on software freedom for mobile devices was quoted in an article entitled The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done? by Ryan Paul in Ars Technica.
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2009/10/27/arstechnica-mobile.html
I agree pretty completely with Harald Welte's comments regarding Symbian . I encourage everyone to take a look at his comments. We are in a very precarious time with regard to the freedom of mo...
, for use instead of the clearer term “proprietary relicensing”. However, since this blog post was widely linked to, I've nevertheless left the text as it originally was in October 2009. ] ...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/10/16/open-core-shareware.html
For the last decade, I've regularly seen complaints when we harder-core software freedom advocates spend some time criticizing proprietary software in addition to our normal work preserving, prot...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/10/11/denouncing-v-advocating.html
Microsoft has received much undeserved press about their recent release of Linux drivers for their virtualization technology under GPLv2. I say “undeserved” because I don't particularly see w...
David Worthington quoted me in an article entitled Microsoft violated the GPL in the SD Times.
I think this news item from yesterday mostly speaks for itself, but I could not let the incident go by without blogging briefly about it. There has been so much talk in the last two weeks that...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/07/17/microsoft-patent-aggression.html
As a second time guest on the Linux Outlaws podcast , Dan and Fab interviewed me about Mono and patents. The podcast is available in mp3 and ogg .
In an essay last Friday entitled Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C#, RMS argued a key point that I agree with: the software freedom community should minimize its use of programming...
, they seem to have made sure the original content was removed from archive.org (which a website owner is technically allowed to do, although it's sneaky behavior). I don't have the full text o...
I don't think we talk enough in the FLOSS community about the importance of individual support of FLOSS-related charitable organizations. On a recent podcast episode , Karen and I discuss with St...
I have faced with much trepidation the news of Oracle's looming purchase of Sun. Oracle has never shown any interest in community development, particularly in the database area. They are the larg...
There has been a lot of press coverage about the Microsoft/TomTom settlement. Unfortunately, so far, I have seen no one speak directly about the dangers that this deal could pose to software free...
Dave Neary found me during breakfast at the Linux Collaboration Summit this morning and mentioned that he was being flamed for a blog post he made, Copyright assignment and other barriers to ent...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/04/08/neary-copyright-assignment.html
Many people have been commenting on and/or asking about my keynote, When Software Is A Services, Is Only the “Network Luddite” Free? from Scale 7x in late February. There is finally a downlo...
Ars Technica wrote an article about my keynote at SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo) 7x.
David Worthington interviewed me for an article entitled Sam Ramji: GPL is challenging for Microsoft in the SD Times.
For the past sixteen months, I participated in a bit of a “mini-GPLv3 process” among folks at the FSF, SFLC, the GNU Compiler Collection Steering Committee (GCC SC), and the GCC community at ...
I was one of the drafters of the GCC Runtime Library Exception, Version 3.0 . I wrote a blog post about the exception .
Last week, I asked Karl Fogel , Canonical's newly hired Launchpad Ombudsman, if Launchpad will use the AGPL v3. His eyes said “yes” but his words were something like: Canonical hasn't announc...
The decision between the GPL or LGPL for a library is a complex one, particularly when that library solves a new problem or an old problem in a new way. TrollTech faced this decision for the Qt l...
David Worthington wrote an article entitled SFLC's Kuhn remains skeptical of Ramji's remarks in the SD Times.
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2008/12/29/Skeptical-Ramji.html
I suppose it's time for me to confess. For a regular humbug who was actually memory-leak-hunting libxml2 at the office until 21:30 on December 24th, I'm still quite a sucker for Frank Capra movie...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/12/24/capra-free-software.html
Today is an interesting anniversary (of sorts) for my cryptographic infrastructure. Nine years ago today, I generated the 1024 bit DSA key, DB41B387, that has been my GPG key every day since then...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/12/09/gpg-gen-key-decade.html
I finally set aside some time to read my old boss' open letter responding to criticisms of the FDL process . I read gladly his discussion of the responsibilities of software freedom license stewa...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/12/04/license-drafting-responsibility.html
Crossposted with autonomo.us . Late last week, the FTP Masters of Debian — who, absent a vote of the Debian developers, make all licensing decisions — posted their ruling that AGPLv3 is DF...
I had yet to mention in my blog that I now co-host a podcast at SFLC . I found myself, as we launched the podcast last week, in a classic hacker situation of having one project demand the need to...
Since the release of GPLv3 , technology pundits have been opining about how adoption is unlikely, usually citing Linux's still-GPLv2 status as (often their only) example. Even though I'm a pro-GP...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/11/13/gplv3-agplv3-adoption.html
Today is International Software Freedom Day. I plan to spend the whole day writing as much Free Software as I can get done. I have read about lots of educational events teaching people how to use...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/09/20/software-freedom-day.html
Crossposted with autonomo.us . So often, a particular strategy becomes dogma. Copyleft licensing constantly allures us in this manner. Every long-term software freedom advocate I have ever kno...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/09/04/netservices-source-culture.html
Twenty-five years ago this month, I had just gotten my first computer, a Commodore 64, and was learning the very basics (quite literally) of programming. Unfortunately for my education, it would ...
I co-wrote A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance (with Aaron Williamson and Karen Sandler), which was published on the Software Freedom Law Center's resources page .
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2008/08/26/Compliance-Guide.html
For ten years, I've been building up a bunch of standard advice on GPL compliance. Usually, I've found myself repeating this advice on the phone, again and again, to another new GPL violator who ...
There has been much chatter and coverage about the court decision related to the Artistic License decision last week. Having spent a decade worrying about the Artistic License, I was surprised ...
At the OSCON Google Open Source Update, Chris Dibona reiterated his requirement to see significant adoption before code.google.com will host AGPLv3 projects (his words). I asked him to tell us h...
About two hours ago, Harald Welte received the 2008 Open Source Award entitled the Defender of Rights. (Open Source awards are renamed for each individual who receives them.) This award comes on ...
The Network Services committee that I alluded to recently in various interviews is now officially public and named: Autonomo.us . (Thanks to one of the committee members, Evan Prodromou , who d...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/07/14/autonomo-us-launch.html
A company called Control Yourself , led by Evan Prodromou (who serves with me and many others on the FSF-endorsed Freedom for Network Services Committee ) yesterday launched a site called identi...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/07/03/microblog-freedom-inside.html
I got a phone call yesterday from someone involved with one of the many socially responsible investment houses. It appears that in some (thus far, small) corners of the socially responsible inve...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/06/28/social-responsible-investing.html
Ian Sullivan showed me an article that he read about eavesdropping on Internet telephony calls . I'm baffled at the obsession about this issue on two fronts. First, I am amazed that people want t...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/06/20/voip-encryption-easy.html
I was the first guest ever on the Linux Outlaws podcast . The podcast is available in mp3 and ogg .
Bradley Kuhn makes a better world through software freedom , an interview with me by Tina Gasperson , appeared on linux.com.
I was amazed to be involved in yet another discussion recently regarding the old debate about the scope of the GPL under copyright law. The debate itself isn't amazing — these debates have happ...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/04/10/gpl-not-end-in-itself.html
I co-authored with many of my colleagues A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects , which was published on the Software Freedom Law Center's resources page .
When I started building our apt-mirror, I ran into a problem: the machine was throttled against ubuntu.com's servers, but I had completed much of the download (which took weeks to get multiple di...
Working for a small non-profit, everyone has to wear lots of hats, and one that I have to wear from time to time (since no one else here can) is “sysadmin”. One of the perennial rules of syst...
Suppose you have a domain name, example.org, that has a primary MX host (mail.example.org) that does most of the delivery. However, one of the users, who works at example.com, actually gets deliv...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/01/09/postfix-secondary-mx-local-deliver.html
I thought the following might be of use to those of you who are still using Apache 2.0 with LDAP and wish to upgrade to 2.2. I found this basic information around online, but I had to search pret...
Many people don't realize that the GPLv3 process actually began long before the November 2005 announcement. For me and a few others, the GPLv3 process started much earlier. Also, in my view, it d...
I was interviewed for two hours on the Linux Link Technology Show . The audio is available in ogg format and mp3 format .
I co-authored with a few of my colleagues Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers , which was published on the Software Freedom Law Center's res...
I co-authored with a few of my colleagues a paper entitled Code Analysis of the Linux Wireless Team's ath5k Driver , which was published on the Software Freedom Law Center's resources page .
In my previous post about Xen , I talked about how easy Xen is to configure and set up, particularly on Ubuntu and Debian. I'm still grateful that Xen remains easy; however, I've lately had a few...
Way back when User Mode Linux (UML) was the “only way” the Free Software world did anything like virtualization, I was already skeptical. Those of us who lived through the coming of age of I...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/06/12/virtually-reluctant.html
I was interviewed on Episode 78 of LUG Radio . Audio is available in ogg format and mp3 format .
Nearly all software developers know that software is covered by copyright. Many know that copyright covers the expression of an idea fixed in a medium (such as a series of bytes), and that the co...
I taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, OH during the 1998-1999 school year. I taught this course because: They were desperate for a teacher. The rather incompet...
I don't remember when it happened, but sometime in the past four years, the Makefiles for the kernel named Linux changed. I can't remember exactly, but I do recall sometime “recently” that th...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/04/17/linux-verbose-build.html
One of my biggest worries in using a laptop is that data can suddenly become available to anyone in the world if a laptop is lost or stolen. I was reminded of this during the mainstream media cov...
I needed to pick a small, inexpensive, 2.0-compliant USB hub for myself, and one for any of the users at my job who asked for one. I found one, the “CP Technologies Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Hub”, wh...
A few days ago, I acquired a number of IBM xSeries servers — namely x206 and x226 systems — for my work at the The Software Freedom Law Center . We bought bare-metal, with just CPU and memor...
I wrote an essay regarding the SCO Subpoena of FSF , which was published on the Free Software Foundation website . It was covered in an InfoWorld article by Robert McMillan .
Sam Varghese quoted me in an article regarding Apache Licenes/GPLv2 compatibility, entitled FSF raises doubts over two open source licences .
Brian Jepson wrote an article based on an interview with me at Linux World Expo and entitled it On SCO, Global Free Software, and GPL Enforcement (archive.org link ). It was published on O'Reill...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2004/01/27/Jepson-Interview.html
Daniel Lyons' writing is only useful for its humor value. I'm amazed that Forbes was willing to publish (non-ironically) this article he wrote about me and Eben Moglen entitled Linux's Hit Men (...
Robert McMillan quoted me extensively in an article entitled Untested GPL may be at center of IBM-SCO suit .
Todd R. Weiss quoted me in an article about SCO v. IBM entitled Open-source experts critique SCO lawsuit against IBM .
An article entitled SCO using scare tactics to get licensing fees (archive.org link ) in the Sydney Morning Herald quoted me regarding the SCO v. IBM case.
Juan Carlos Perez quoted me in an article entitled Microsoft licenses Unix technology from SCO that appeared in InfoWorld.
Katie Dean quoted me in a Wired article about so-called “software piracy” entitled Focus on Software Piracy Problem .
Matthew Broersma quoted me in a ZDNet article entitled UnitedLinux defends open-source roots .
Tina Gasperson quoted me in a follow-up article on the Lindows issue, entitled FSF: LindowsOS moving toward GPL compliance regarding the GPL violation of Lindows.
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2002/06/04/Lindows-Compliance.html
Chimes, the student newspaper at Calvin College covered a speech that I gave there (archive.org link ).
Tina Gasperson quoted me in an article entitled FSF asks Lindows, “Where's the source?” , which discussed a GPL violation by Lindows. Bruce Perens responded with an open letter a few days la...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2002/04/11/Lindows-Violation.html
Tina Gasperson quoted me in an article entitled GPL Enforcement Goes To Court For First Time In MySQL Case ( archive.org link ) that appeared on NewsForge and in The Register.
Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe quoted me in an article entitled Case to Test Principles Of the Free Software Movement , which covered the MySQL AB vs. Progress/NuSphere dispute.
Freedom or Power? , (available in English , in French , in Spanish , in Portuguese , and in Italian ). This article was published on the Free Software Foundation 's website and the GNU Project 's...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2001/11/11/Freedom-or-Power.html
Mark Hall quoted me in an article entitled IBM Efforts Both Help, Hurt Free Software Initiative at Computer World.
Microsoft Has Tied the Valley's Hands . (Available as ASCII Text .) Silicon Valley Business Ink (article appeared in print and online), Friday 5 October 2001 Issue. (SVBI is out of business, so o...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2001/10/05/Microsoft-Tied-Hands.html
Peter Galli quoted me in an article entitled Free Software Foundation Targets RTLinux for GPL Violations , and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols quoted me in an article entitled Whither FSF? Group faces ...
Freedom or Power?, Version 0 (available in HTML and ASCII Text ), was published on the O'Reilly Network. This article was co-written with Richard M. Stallman .
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2001/08/15/Freedom-or-Power.html
A paper entitled A Novel Approach for Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine , (which is available as HTML , Postscript , PDF , ASCII Text , and POD ) was published at The Perl Conference 5.0 i...
Matt Berger quoted me in an article entitled Microsoft Is Open to Open Source (archive.org version ). It was interesting to note that at a time when Microsoft was attacking the GPL, they distrib...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2001/06/28/Microsoft-Open.html
The GNU GPL and the American Dream . (Available in Catalan , in Dutch , in English , in French , in Italian ), in Polish , in Russian , and in Spanish ). The article was published on the Free Sof...
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/2001/05/03/GPL-American-Dream.html
. ] When I was in grade school, right here in the United States of America, I was taught that our country was the “land of opportunity”. My teachers told me that my country was special, bec...
I wrote an article for the O'Reilly Network entitled JVM to .NET: I'm Not Dead Yet! (available in HTML ).
My Master's thesis at the University of Cincinnati was entitled Considerations on Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine , and it is available as HTML , PDF , Postscript , and a .tar.gz file of...
My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the sche...
Tonight, I finished the actual document of my Master's thesis. I had to vet it by reading it out loud, about three times. I have a real hard time finding subtle grammar errors. I believe that whe...
I spent some time writing a tutorial book on Perl, which originally stemmed out of notes I wrote for a few classes I taught on Perl. It was called Picking Up Perl , and is available as HTML , PDF...
A referred paper entitled perljvm: Using B to Facilitate a Perl Port To the Java Virtual Machine . (available as HTML , Postscript , PDF , ASCII Text , and POD ) was published at The Perl Confere...
Andrew Leonard quoted me in an article entitled Who Controls Free Software? at Salon.com.
A referred paper entitled Crozzle: An NP-Complete Problem , (available as HTML , as Postscript and as PDF ), was published at The 1997 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in San Jose, CA, USA. (T...
A referred paper entitled A Simple Enabling Optimization for C++ Virtual Functions , (available as HTML , as Postscript and as PDF ), was published at The 1996 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing...
An referred paper entitled The Decomposition Slice Display System , (available as HTML and as Postscript ), appeared The Seventh International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge En...
A paper entitled In Search of a Customizable and Uniform User Interface (available as HTML and as Postscript ). This article appeared in Crossroads , the International ACM Student Magazine, Iss...