open source
June 19th, 2008 at 01:28pm
Under Advocacy
Following up on Dr Ari Jaaksi asking the Linux community for understanding, Bruce Perens, a leader in the Free Software and Open Source communities, had this to say in response to Dr Jaaksi’s statement that: “There are certain business rules [developers] need to obey, such as DRM, IPR [intellectual property rights], SIM locks and subsidised [...]
Continue Reading Bruce Perens responds to Ari Jaaksi
Tags: ari jaaksi, bruce perens, nokia, open source, technocrat
By Ken Y-N
June 17th, 2008 at 07:22am
Under Advocacy
At the recent Handsets World conference in Berlin, Dr Ari Jaaksi, Nokia’s vice president of software and head of their open-source operations, talked about the need for open source developers to understand the realities of the mobile world’s business models. The word he used was “educated”, which has got certain negative undertones to me as [...]
Continue Reading Nokia asks open source to embrace closed environments
Tags: ari jaaksi, business week, limo, nokia, open source
By Ken Y-N
May 27th, 2008 at 01:21pm
Under TPM
VMKnoppix is a specialist KNOPPIX Live CD, which in itself is based on Debian. This distribution contains a number of Virtual Machin software packages such as Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, QEMU, KQEMU (QEMU with accelerator) and UserMode Linux. The latest release, based on KNOPPIX 5.3.1, version number 20080519, also includes a secure virtual machine monitor BitVisor [...]
Continue Reading Open Source love for TPM
Tags: linux, open source, vmknoppix
By Ken Y-N
May 14th, 2008 at 01:43pm
Under TNC
As I have been talking a lot about the coverage of the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Trusted Network Connect (TNC) workgroup, and about the open source reaction to anything TCG-related, I thought it would be interesting to list some of the open source initiatives underway to support the TNC protocols. To support these projects, the [...]
Continue Reading TNC and Free Software
Tags: open source
By Ken Y-N
May 8th, 2008 at 02:36pm
Under TCG
One of the biggest buzzes from the recent Interop Las Vegas conference, the leading event for the networking industry, was the announcement of the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Trusted Network Connect (TNC) workgroup’s new protocol, IF-MAP, the Interface for Metadata Access Point. With many of the 140-plus member companies of the TCG contributing towards this [...]
Continue Reading IF-MAP protocol excites Interop
Tags: if-map, interop, open source
By Ken Y-N