Montreal Linux Users Group

Hello and welcome to the new world where Linux vendors are selling their souls.

As you can tell from the first line of this post, I am extremely frustrated with the state of Linux vendors these days, let's try to analyze the latest IP deals, shall we?

First there was the Novell/SuSE deal, I am not a lawyer, but from what I gathered, it was all a trick to get around the GPL, and apparently it worked so well that the FSF made specific changes to GPL3 to prevent that sort of thing.

The venue for the meeting changed late this afternoon, due to renovations at the planned space. I updated the site and the irc channel, and attempted to alert the mailing list, but sadly it seems I was unable to get a mail through, due most likely to a problem at videotron (I got one bounced back to me).

So, meeting is officially at Utopik, and I wil not be there. I hope this did not cause too much inconvenience for people, I personally alerted whoever I could.

Just stopped by to check the date for the next meetup since it's been ages since I attended a local LUG meeting of any sort, probably 5 years or so since I attended regularly, probably more.

Nice to see Drupal on the site. I went to a couple of days of DrupalCon2005 in Portland and met a bunch of the developers there.

I just got a qemu image of the OLPC (one laptop per child) OS and played with it for a few minutes. It's really different from anything I've ever seen before, the whole gui is really based around sharing and being able to communicate with other friends on the mesh wifi network that gets created when you put a bunch of these boxes next to each other (I've yet to use it, but it's there). The taskbar is right in the middle of the screen which forms a circle of open applications centered around a little stick figure which I'm assuming represents you.

Only 194 days to go until Software Freedom Day, which happens to kick off the Québec Free Software Week this year :)

We're looking for people to help with the website, promotion, writing, translation, etc. Maybe you have an idea for a large event and 6 months will be just enough time to make it happen? I hope the new website can help you realize your goals to promote Free Software and Open Source.

So mark your calendars and keep a few days open betwen the 15th and 23rd of September 2007 for the SQIL.