FOSS Means Business : Belfast -16th March 2006.
diamat | 20.02.2006 11:54 | Education | Technology | World
The FOSS Means Business conference will focus on the adoption and use of Free Software/Open Source Software (FOSS), with particular emphasis on the economic and competitive benefits for both the public and private sector.
Richard Stallman and Bruce Perens will keynote at this event targetted at fueling transitions towards Free Software solutions in the IT departments of businesses and the public sector. CEOs and CIOs may particularly be interested in the business angle of Bruce Perens, and Richard Stallman will speak on the updating of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) and "Free Software in Ethics and Practice". Other speakers from the public and private sectors are to be announced soon and there will be many opportunities for networking at the event.
Event Wiki : http://foss-means-business.org/
Event Wiki : http://foss-means-business.org/
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Supporting censorship
20.02.2006 23:35
http://foss-means-business.org/Speakers#Google
And one of the ]corporate supporters of state censorship of internet content in China is Google, how apt that they are addressing the conference on the subject of "Business & Government"...
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/01/332322.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Censorship_in_mainland_China
http://noluv4google.com/
http://noluv4google.com/article.php?id=801
What has this to do with Sheffield?
Mao