Interviews: Interview with Carlo Piana
The European Union's 899-million-euro antitrust fine is the result of a continuous effort by the European Commission dating back to 2000. Carlo Piana, a partner at the Milan law firm Studio Legale Tamos Piana & Partners, represented the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Samba project in the case.
Ivan Jelic 10/03/2008 10:20:31
Interviews: Google: OpenSocial party nearing start
Almost four months after Google emerged from the background in social networking with its OpenSocial initiative, there is no shortage of skepticism around the project.
Juan Carlos Perez 25/02/2008 08:23:59
Interviews: New Red Hat CEO on JBoss, open source, the future
Since being acquired by Linux vendor Red Hat in mid-2006, open-source middleware vendor JBoss has been a company in transition. It was well-known for its open-source middleware line that could be used by large businesses to better tie together their divergent applications.
Todd R. Weiss 14/02/2008 09:49:45
Interviews: phpBB3 takes giant strides from predecessor
As the world gets smaller, security threats and spam seem only to grow. PhpBB is the open source Internet Forum package that underlies a majority of the online forums on the Internet and its creators take their motto "creating communities" very seriously. All communities need to interact freely and safely, and although a long time coming, the latest release, phpBB3, has several increased security measures, as well as enhanced collaboration features and mobile optimisation.
Dahna McConnachie 05/02/2008 11:17:00
Interviews: KDE king Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the desktop
With the recent release of version 4.0, the KDE open source project has garnered a lot of international attention. One of KDE's lead developers, and best known personality, Aaron J Seigo is in Australia to speak at this year's Linux.conf.au on his vision for better desktop computing. Computerworld spoke with Seigo, a native of Calgary, Canada, about his view of the world and how a little bit of innovation will permanently change how people interact with software.
Rodney Gedda 01/02/2008 11:42:48
Interviews: The world according to Linus
Computerworld catches up with the man behind Linux, Linus Torvalds, at Linux.conf.au
Andrew Hendry 29/01/2008 23:40:29
Interviews: Samba's Tridge clusters code and crowds
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, the man behind the Samba file server and self-confessed TSP packet molester talks with Dahna McConnachie about Samba and some of his other favourite pastimes. Tridge will be speaking more about clustered Samba at the upcoming linux.conf.au.
Dahna McConnachie 15/01/2008 08:53:50
Interviews: Q&A: Gates' role as innovator, deal-maker, philanthropist
Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates has been giving keynote speeches at Las Vegas conventions, including the Consumer Electronics Show and the now-defunct Comdex, for decades. Before his last CES keynote speech as a full-time company employee, he talked with the IDG News Service about his legacy as an innovator, the background behind some of the deals announced at CES this week and directions for Microsoft.
Marc Ferranti 08/01/2008 12:17:29
Interviews: Bruce Almighty: Schneier preaches security to Linux faithful
Internationally renowned security guru, Bruce Schneier, will be encouraging technologists at linux.conf.au to take a lesson from Luke Skywalker, and "feel the force" a little more when it comes to security.
Dahna McConnachie 27/12/2007 07:56:29
Interviews: Open-source backer: Software a 'renewable' resource
As a lawyer, law professor and software programmer, Eben Moglen is passionate about technology, software and user freedom. A former board member of the Free Software Foundation and the founder, president and executive director of the Software Freedom Law Center in New York since 2005, Moglen has worked to protect and advance open source and free software. Moglen, 48, is a Connecticut native who grew up in Manhattan and began programming for pay at the age of 13. Eventually, he worked as a developer at IBM to put himself through college and law school. A longtime friend of free software advocate, Richard Stallman, Moglen recently talked with Computerworld about his work, his belief in open source and what he sees as the changing future of software in the world economy.
Todd R. Weiss 04/12/2007 11:26:19
 
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