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We continue to review the news of free and open source software and some hardware. All the most important thing about penguins and not only in Russia and the world. Linus Torvalds on the future of Linux kernel development, one of the Internet giants - Baidu - joined in protecting Linux from patent claims, historical material about one of the creators of UNIX and C Dennis Ritchie, US software sanctions against Russia, experiment on crowd-source development of the Constitution and much more.
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Linus Torvalds on the future of Linux kernel development
Linux creator Linus Torvalds spoke about the problem of finding future maintainers for an open source operating system, they write in the news on Habré: “ It happened at the virtual conference Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux, taking place this week. Torvalds spoke with VMware CEO Dirk Hondel. He stated, “I said the Linux kernel is boring, but I mean that a lot of new technologies should be more interesting. For me and many other people, there is nothing more interesting than interacting at a low level with equipment to really control what is happening . "
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Baidu Joins Initiative to Protect Linux from Patent Claims
The Chinese company Baidu, one of the world's largest manufacturers of Internet services and products related to artificial intelligence, has become a member of the Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization dedicated to protecting the Linux ecosystem from patent claims, writes OpenNET. "OIN members include over 3,200 companies, communities and organizations that have signed licensing agreements for the sharing of patents. Among the main OIN participants, providing the formation of a patent pool protecting Linux, such companies as Google, IBM, NEC, Toyota, Renault, SUSE, Philips, Red Hat, Alibaba, HP, AT&T, Juniper, Facebook, Cisco, Casio, Huawei, Fujitsu , Sony and Microsoft. The companies that signed the agreement gain access to the patents held by the OIN in exchange for an obligation not to bring legal claims for the use of technologies used in the Linux ecosystem, ”the publication adds.
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Dennis Ritchie's Lost Thesis
A translation of an interesting historical article was published on Habré about the background of the work of Dennis Ritchie, one of the founders of UNIX and the C language, that is, two technologies on which, without exaggeration, the entire modern computer world is supported. “ I… received my BA and PhD degrees from Harvard University, where I studied physics as a student and applied mathematics as a graduate student… The topic of my 1968 doctoral dissertation was on subrecursive hierarchies of functions. My student experience convinced me that I was not smart enough for a physicist, and that computers are quite curious. My graduate experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to become a specialist in the theory of algorithms, and that I prefer procedural languages rather than functional languages."- after such a very critical introspection, Ritchie embarked on the path that led him to great deeds.
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US banned from selling Windows and iPhone to Russian military and police
Not entirely on the topic of reviews, but nevertheless interesting news and still has a certain connection with our interests. Leaving aside the analysis of the relationship between the United States and Russia, let's look dryly at the facts and at the attitude of what happened to FOSS. On Habré with reference to RBC they write: “ . 29 . … , , . … , , . … , , , « » , , . … Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman , iPhone Microsoft Windows, , «» ".
Looking at the news, repeatedly mentioned in previous reviews, the military and police are already actively switching to software based on FOSS-developments (remember at least the massive purchases of Astra Linux by security officials mentioned in the 0th review vk.com/@permlug-foss -news-0). What is happening clearly shows that even seemingly private and far from politics, if necessary, are easily used in confrontation at the political level, which, however, very often has completely economic grounds. Developed FOSS solutions, which in principle cannot have such restrictions, naturally begin to gain popularity. Of course, there are questions about the return to FOSS projects from this use and the alignment of the values of those who developed FOSS software and those who are becoming more and more active users of it. But free software is free because no one has the right to judge and decide who can use the developments made by almost the whole world, and who cannot.
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Alternative constitution
An interesting experiment is proposed on Habré, which makes an attempt to transfer principles from IT and, more specifically, FOSS parts of it to the legal plane. The author of the article writes: “ I conceive this post as a risky experiment. I want to find out if IT people can organize themselves to create open, free (from the word freedom, not free beer), clean, high-quality "code" using their familiar tools (Git, fork, TDD, agile, stackoverflow, abstraction, unit- tests, etc.). Only this "code" is a text that could be a constitution in an alternative reality (or fantasy story), very close to ours. If you do not like someone else's code, write your own . "
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