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A Good Day at LOTS

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LOTS is over. This very first event on Open Source in Switzerland was interesting, well organised, and the atmosphere simmilar to Linuxtag.

I was most impressed by the talk of Wolfgang Maass on the potentials of Open Source for the enterprise market. He presented some conclusions from a research analysing the oppinions of several CIOs. Most astonishing, he said that licensing is not really an cost issue for CIOs, they are rather concerned with being independent from a unique vendor. I am looking forward to find his slides on the LOTS Website.

Some pictures are available online in the LOTS 2004 Album. On the LOTS Website, there are some more pictures. Chregu also has a brief report on LOTS.

Distinguishing Patents and Copyright

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Tony Stanco formulated a clear distinction between patents and copyright:

Copyright provides exclusive plenary rights to the owner. Patents provide the owner only with the right to exclude others. I think the distinction was grounded in the fact that it would be hard to conflict with someone else’s copyright in an original work (which usually stood alone), while complex, interrelated processes/machines could easily involve multiple and conflicting patents. As a result, patents are only negative rights and a person’s exploitation of a particular patent in subject to the non existence of conflicting patent(s).

It’s a nice conclusion in a long discussion.

ZZ/OSS Speaks at PHP and Web Standards Conference

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The timetable of the PHP and Web Standards Conference (PaWS) in Manchester/UK is up. ZZ/OSS CEO Sandro Zic will give two talks:

One session deals with the ZZ/OSS Installer (see also the project’s Web site).

The other session is titled Managing the Semantic Web. A similar talks has been provided at OSCOM 3 at Harvard by Sandro. Find the OSCOM slides online to read what he will basically talk about in Manchester.

Lightning Fast HTTPD

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Jan has released “lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server
which has been optimized for high-performance environments”. The advanced features include:

  • load-balanced FastCGI (one webserver distibutes request to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)
  • custom errorpages (for Response-Code 400-599)
  • virtual hosts
  • directory listings
  • streaming CGI and FastCGI
  • URL-Rewritung
  • HTTP-Redirects
  • output-compression with transparent caching

Find more information in English in the README or in German at the project website.