On Jun 10, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:
http://news.com.com/Is+the+telephone+industry+ready+for+open
+source/2008-1082_3-5737703.html
Perhaps you could enlighten us with an informed talk on Linux-based
PBX?
Any reason to not have Matt Darnell (sp?) come do so instead? He
runs an Asterix (and SER) based business here in Honolulu.
I imagine that a home/office-based "telephone server" may have
quite a bit of commercial potential. (For example, I always hate
to carry a cell phone with an address book, as it may contain
privileged/private information, etc.)
Tens of thousands of geeks already do this. (BTW, your lawyer
mentality is showing. :-) Its nearly trivial to setup. Does
LUAU/HOSEF have
technical get-togethers with speakers? (Or is that CyberPizza? (And
what about those of us trying to cut down on carbs?))
I brought my new linux-powered car PC to the Talk-Shop on Monday, but
the only other people who showed up were Scott and Ted, so we talked
about the DOE.
About the Mac not being proprietary comment, what are you eluding
to? Wayne
Darwin is about as open as it gets, save linux, freebsd, netbsd, and
openbsd. The source code for the tool chain, OS, most libraries
and userland are all available under an FSF (and ODSL, as if anyone
cares about them) approved "Free Software" license.
What you don't get source for are Aqua, the i-apps, etc. But you can
run X, if you want. I find I don't, even after nearly 20 years of X
usage.
Some media think "PowerPC" is proprietary as well. Its less
proprietary than Intel's processors.
Feel free to counter with the "but you can't run MacOS on open
hardware" argument.
Desktop Linux is seriously in-trouble when folks like jwz bail.
http://jwz.livejournal.com/494040.html
And while the upgrade to Debian's "sarge" didn't break the single
colo box which is my last remaining Debian installation, that box had
been
running "testing" for years. Things don't look so good for folks
upgrading from potatoe, however: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/
software/0,2000061733,39196419,00.htm
Jim
