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Red Hat Lets Fedora Loose?

Fedora is loose or is it?

Red Hat is changing course again with its free Fedora version of Linux, announcing Friday that it will turn over copyrights and development work to an outside entity called the Fedora Foundation.

Red Hat once had just one version of Linux, but beginning in 2002 it split the product into the commercially supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the free and fast-moving Fedora. But the company struggled to meet the original Fedora goal of attracting widespread outside involvement.

A vibrant Fedora project is important to Red Hat, and not just as a way to build improvements fed into RHEL. It also stands to boost Red Hat’s image as a company that cooperates with others in open-source programming, fill the pipeline of new RHEL customers, and keep Red Hat at the center of open-source operating system work in the face of rivals such as Gentoo and OpenSolaris.

[Source: ZDNet]

The way I see it is that RedHat’s plan to stop support for the free version of linux, yet get developers to add features to it for free so that it can use them in the paid Enterprise version didn’t work, and so now they want to mask their involvement with Fedora in an attempt to fool developers into getting involved.

I thought the move they took by discontinuing support for the free version of Redhat Linux was dumb and hurt linux, and all this stuff they’re trying with Fedora is just stupid and meaningless.

The Interpreter

Last night we watched The Interpreter (at Century Cinema), a Sydney Pollack movie featuring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn.

The movie is a drama / thriller about a UN interpreter who overhears an assassination plot and all the political intrigue and deception that follows that.

The story got me hooked from the beginning, the acting was great and the whole movie turned out really good.

If you’re into these types of movies, I do recommend it.

My score for it would be: 8.5/10.

.XXX Addresses For Porn Sites

Pornographers and their customers soon will have a virtual red light district reserved just for them.

ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved a plan yesterday to create “.xxx” domain names.

ICANN said it’s working with the ICM Registry to finalize remaining details, meaning the porn-friendly set of .xxx domains should be available by the end of the year.

ICM contends the “xxx” Web addresses, which it plans to sell for $60 a year, will protect children from online smut if adult sites voluntarily adopt the suffix so filtering software used by families can more effectively block access to those sites.

[More: CNet News, CNN]

Blogger Spell Checking Scandal

Isn’t it weird that Blogger‘s spell checking tool doesn’t recognize the words “blog”, “blogger”, “blogging” and thinks they’re wrong and should be corrected?!

You’d think a blogging service as important as Google’s Blogger, that has played such a major role in spreading blogging across the world, would at least add those words to it’s dictionary.

Shame on you guys, shame on you!
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