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Programming Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 28, 2023

=> Proprietary Software: Microsoft, SUSE, and IBM/Red Hat | Retro and Open hardware: Amiga, RISC-V, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More

Kushal Das: My talk in RustNL 2023

=> ↺ Kushal Das: My talk in RustNL 2023

On May 10th, I attended my first ever Rust conference, RustNL 2023. I reached there the night before. My talk was the 3rd one in the morning.

=> ↺ RustNL 2023

=> ↺ RustNL 2023

Software Freedom & Trademarks: Examining Rust's New Policy through the Lens of FOSS History [Ed: Rust has trademark issues, says RMS, and it uses proprietary Microsoft hosting, so here's why "team CANCEL RMS" says]

=> ↺ Software Freedom & Trademarks: Examining Rust's New Policy through the Lens of FOSS History

However, trademark law can have a significant impact on what people can do with a FOSS project, including whether they can enjoy these rights at all.
Practical software freedom (the right to use, study, modify, and redistribute software you've received) requires meeting several conditions. First, that program must be under a Free and Open Source (FOSS) license. Second, the entity(ies) distributing the program must abide by the terms of the license. And third, there must be no additional restrictions that would inhibit your ability to exercise your rights under the license. (Copyleft licenses include extra verbiage to assure the third condition is met.)

EOSS - Recorded presentations (videos) now available

=> ↺ EOSS - Recorded presentations (videos) now available

If you weren't able to attend Embedded Open Source Summit in Prague last month, you're in luck as all presentations were recorded and are now available on YouTube.

Daniel Vetter: EOSS Prague: Kernel Locking Engineering

=> ↺ Daniel Vetter: EOSS Prague: Kernel Locking Engineering

EOSS in Prague was great, lots of hallway track, good talks, good food,

Qbs 2.1 released

=> ↺ Qbs 2.1 released

The Qbs build tool version 2.1.0 is available.

=> ↺ Qbs build tool

Qbs is a community-driven language-agnostic build automation system. It is fast and offers an easy-to-learn language based upon QML.

=> ↺ Qbs build tool

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