Adventures in Driverland June 21, 2007
Posted by Ananth in Computer Science, Device Drivers.add a comment
One of the fallouts of Sun’s historic pact with Intel was that more programmers were needed for Intel device drivers on Solaris. And so, I switched from poking around with userland utilities, libraries and diskless clients to fiddling around with Device Drivers on Solaris.
Eben Moglen on GPLv3, Patents et al. June 5, 2007
Posted by Ananth in Open Source, Solaris, Sun.add a comment
I had a chance to listen to and meet Eben Moglen, legendary professor of law and legal history at the Sun Office today. Eben had long been on the board of the FSF and is one of the key authors of the GPLv3, which happened to be one of the primary focal points of his talk today. (more…)
