OSCON Is Coming -- Join us at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in beautiful Portland from August 1-5. OSCON 2005 will be at the Oregon Convention Center, where we'll have tutorials, sessions, parties, BOFs, and a huge exhibit hall. The Call for Proposals is closed, but registration and hotel information will be available soon. To get the latest details as soon as we have them, sign up for the OSCON newsletter.
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An Interview with Cory Doctorow
-- Cory Doctorow fits the old adage: "Need something done?
Ask a busy person." The European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, a co-editor of Boing Boing, and a renowned science
fiction writer, Cory spoke to us about his latest book and his work as
a science fiction writer. Cory is also on tap to speak at O'Reilly's
upcoming Emerging
Technology Conference to be held March 14-17 in San Diego,
California.
Remixing Culture: An Interview with Lawrence
Lessig -- What do you get when you mix P2P,
inexpensive digital input devices, open source software, easy editing
tools, and reasonably affordable bandwidth? Potentially, you get what
Lawrence Lessig calls remix culture, which he explains in this
extensive interview. The concept of remixing culture is also the topic
of his keynote at O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology
Conference, March 14-17 in San Diego.
Open Source and MySQL Will Rise,
Legal Foes Will Fall -- "2004 was a portent of
things to come for Linux in 2005, both because of what didn't happen
(SCO Group's victory) and what did (the rise of open source software),
according to Marten Mickos, CEO of Sweden-based MySQL AB. In this
interview, he predicts how those events, which included the success of
MySQL's database, will play out in 2005." Mickos will be speaking at
O'Reilly's upcoming MySQL Users
Conference.
Freedom, Innovation, and Convenience: The RMS Interview -- Since 1984, Richard M. Stallman has fought for software freedom as coder, project leader, and philosopher. Read about Stallman's views on freedom, the GNU project, the Linux kernel, and GNU/Linux distributions, in this interview by Federico Biancuzzi on LinuxDevCenter.com.
