Wir haben ja eine “Rentiersafari” gemacht. Gestartet oben in Kiruna und dann 4 Tage lang mit zwei samischen FÃ

OpenSPARC.net is the genesis of a vision by engineers, technologists, evangelists, and executives at Sun Microsystems, Inc. to create a larger community where open conversations and collaborative development projects spawn dramatic innovations around chip design. Individual programmers as well as representatives from Universities, industry associations, supporting software companies, foundries, entrepreneurs, large corporations and visionaries have already begun to participate in this expanded community.

Their original press release is dated from Dec. 6, 2005:

Sun Microsystems Launches OpenSPARC Project – Ignites New Open Source Community for Breakthrough UltraSPARC T1 Processor
Sun Open Sources Microprocessor Design, Lowering Barriers to Innovation and Application Development for First Purpose-Built Processor for the Next Internet Build-Out

New York – Dec. 6, 2005 – Sun Network Computing 2005 Q4 (NC05Q4) – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced the OpenSPARC project to open source its new breakthrough UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor design point. With more than 3.4 million registered licenses of the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and 10,000 registered OpenSolaris community members, Sun is building on a long history of sharing source code and creating communities and is the first to create this new 64-bit, 32-thread rich SPARC/Solaris community to spur innovation for massively-threaded systems and “system on a chip” design. The program will be available in the first quarter of 2006.

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This article from The Economist has some nice links to open source topics. I know most, but they are nice anyway: ââ

I am back from my holidays! I have been traveling with Almut through Northern Sweden. We did a reindeer sledge tour with Sami guides helping us to survive 25Ã

The State Services Commission (SSC) (the NZ government body that oversees NZ government departments) released a guide to legal issues in using Open Source Software recently.

Via Golem.de:

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Interesting blog analysis on the US teacher who got fired for comparing Bush to Hitler:
Daily Kos: Bennish Vs. Hitler Youth

http://talktomecongress.blogspot.com/2006/03/lots-of-bennish-updates.html

On the reactos.com mailing list: This is an open source project. Code is all that matters. No code flowing in, project dies

Wow! We posted an open position for a PhD candidate on our department web site. It is amazing how many people from around the world applied without us actively promoting this position any further. Difficult to decide also, because they are very diverse. It is hard to judge a person on its resumee only, so we are going to invite a couple of persons for an interview.