tykev - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Isn't this just doing free work for Canonical? (Score 2) 4

by tykev on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @05:30AM (#64274958) Attached to: 'Open Documentation Academy' Offers On-Ramp To OSS

Fair point, but that's not the motivation. In the end, it's much simpler to write docs than to do all this (provide guidance, curate easy tasks, offer feedback, ...). This is meant as a way to encourage people to get involved with open source and offer an easy way to get started. Any open source.

Submission + - Open Documentation Academy offers on-ramp to OSS

Submitted by tykev on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @06:08AM

tykev writes: Documentation authors at Canonical have launched the Open Documentation Academy to offer an easy way to get started contributing to open-source projects:
Open and inclusive collaboration, and the sharing of ideas, remains the best way to develop software (and to do many other things!), but we also recognise that this “getting involved” step can be difficult. Where do you start? Who do you ask? What needs to be done?

We all very much want to help people become open source contributors by building an on-ramp process. It may take some time, and we will need to adapt, but this is exactly why we’ve started our Open Documentation Academy.

Submission + - ACTA Ratification Suspended by Czech Republic (google.com)

Submitted by tykev on Monday February 06, 2012 @11:39AM

tykev writes: The Czech government suspended the ratification process of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA, said Prime Minister Petr Necas today. The government wants to further analyze the issue. There were a number of public demonstrations against ACTA in several Czech towns, and some Czech Euro MP's oppose ACTA as being ‘completely wide of the mark’. Earlier, Poland announced its intention to suspend the ratification process as well. In the meantime, the website of the ruling Czech Civic Democratic Party was attacked and defaced by Anonymous who also publicly released personal data of the party's members.

Submission + - Lenovo Requires NDA for Windows License Refund (abclinuxu.cz)

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tykev

on Thursday August 28, 2008 @03:53AM

tykev writes: "A customer wanted to return the license for preinstalled Windows Vista Business that came with his Lenovo laptop. After some lengthy negotiations with representatives of Lenovo's technical support and management, he was offered financial compensation for returning the license in the amount of CZK 1950 (USD 130, EUR 78), pending his acceptance of a non-disclosure agreement that would cover the entire negotiations with the company and its results. He declined and published his experiences on a Czech Linux website. The website editors decided to reward the customer for publishing the article by paying him an author's royalty in the same amount as was the offered compensation for returning the license."

Submission + - Alan Cox on Patent Law and GPLv3 (abclinuxu.cz)

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tykev

on Sunday June 10, 2007 @06:03PM

tykev writes: "Linux kernel guru Alan Cox talks about kernel features, cooperation with hardware vendors, and software patents. From the interview: "I don't think [Microsoft's patent threats] are the biggest danger. As Microsoft has been finding out recently it is the patent trolls, and organisations with buried patents in interesting areas that are the biggest threat in the USA. The real answer to that problem, however, is to pull the USA back into line with the majority of the world which simply does not recognize patents on software but respects them as literary works subject to copyright law. Also therefore we have to make sure the continuing US attempts to spread bogus patent law into the EU are defeated.""

Submission + - Andy Ritger of NVIDIA on Linux Driver Development (abclinuxu.cz)

Submitted by tykev on Monday June 04, 2007 @06:04PM

tykev writes: The Director of Unix Software at NVIDIA talks about Linux drivers, planned features, development cycle, and the open-source Nouveau driver. "NVIDIA's stance is to neither help nor hinder Nouveau. We are committed to supporting Linux through a) an open source 2d "nv" X driver which NVIDIA engineers actively maintain and improve, and b) our fully featured proprietary Linux driver which leverages common code with the other platforms that NVIDIA supports."

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