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2004 Edition Free and Open Source Software Developer's European Meeting





News Fosdem

[ 12-03-2004 ]
Slides - updated

Lots of slides are now available for download:
News Fosdem

[ 20-02-2004 ]
Bad news ...

Due to personal reasons, Tom Kistner won't be able to attend FOSDEM. So there will be no anti-spam technics talk.
News Fosdem

[ 17-01-2004 ]
Introduction talk & background contest

The Open Source Paradigm Shift

The computer industry has gone through a sea change in the past few years. The killer applications of the web era turned out not to be PC-based software packages like the web browser, but web hosted applications like google, mapquest and amazon.com. These applications are built on top of Linux and Apache, yet they are themselves fiercely proprietary. But what would most developers do with their source code? These massive systems are valuable for their data as much as for their programs. And by opening up XML web services APIs to that data, the most innovative of these sites are creating new opportunities for hackers to "scratch their own itch." One of the greatest challenges for open source in the next few years is to understand and adapt to the paradigm shift implicit in network computing, and to shed the legacy thinking of the desktop era.


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News Fosdem

[ 06-01-2004 ]
Our daily interviews

In the following pages, you can read interviews of
  • Keith Packard talking about the state of the graphical world like X, FreeDekstop.org and other.
  • Henning Brauer describing what he likes in OpenBSD and why it rules !
  • News Fosdem

    [ 28-12-2003 ]
    How to start the week ?

    Don't forget your time reading this blabla ... go and read what Jonathan Corbet has to say about the Linux kernel, the modules and other stuffs.
    After, or before, you will certainly want to discover what Denis Oliver Kropp is doing with DirectFB.

    [ Older news ]






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