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Moblin at OSCON
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel)Posted Juli 24th 20080
I gave a keynote at OSCON yesterday. Always fun - especially if you have about 48 hours of warning that you'll be the speaker... Imad, my boss, was called out of town on short notice and asked me to take over from him. Which I did quite happily as I love giving presentations (weird, I know). The
Community matters - inside and outside of a company
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel)Posted Februar 28th 20083
We just finished our annual Intel Open Source Technology Summit. An Intel-internal conference that brings together the leaders (both engineers and influencers / decision makers) in open source across Intel. Two days of presentations and lots and lots of time to talk, exchange ideas, connect names
It's all about the specs
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel)Posted Februar 21st 20080
Interesting post from Jon Corbett over at LWN (depending on when you read this, you might need an LWN account - which is a must have, IMHO, so go ahead, subscribe). Anyway, what Jon explains is that there is ongoing debate on whether the
Dell and Linux - there's more to come
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel)Posted März 13th 20076
Now look at this... our fine friends at Dell have not given up on Linux, yet. Instead they have added a very neat little Poll on their website which should
Show us the code
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel)Posted Februar 24th 20071
Here's an interesting effort in the open source community. A request to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to put some evidence behind the frequent claims that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents. The people at [http://showusthecode.com/] show us the code are specifically asking for, as they put it, the
Google's Office Suite
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel)Posted Februar 22nd 20072
Oops, I of course meant to say Google Apps. Google execs continue to point out that this is not intended to compete with Microsoft Office. I don't know whom they think
There is no end user demand for Linux? Guess again.
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel)Posted Februar 20th 20072
Dell recently added a customer feedback site on the web. The #1 request was not what people expected. At the time of this writing, the #1 request is for
Open source impact on software M&A
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel)Posted Februar 15th 20071
Larry Augustin chaired a panel on "The Impact of Open Source on Software M&A" at the LinuxWord Open Solution Summit in New York.I thought this was a fascinating topic
Back to open source drivers
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel)Posted Februar 13th 20070
Greg KH - always a fun guy to talk to, and the right person to start a little controversy here and there - is on a mission. A mission to help hardware vendors figure

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