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    [37][Ottawa] The Ottawa Linux Symposium is over for another year.
    [38]LWN's coverage from the event is now available. Have a look for a
    discussion at what happened at this important Linux event, now that
    the reporters have caught up on their sleep... Also included is the
    contents of the conference proceedings CD, which includes the original
    submitted paper for each talk.
    
    Our event coverage looks at the details of what happened in Ottawa,
    but it is also worthwhile to step back and consider OLS from a more
    distant perspective. OLS is a nearly unique gathering of the people
    who actually make Linux what it is, and there are things to be learned
    by seeing who they are and what's on their minds.
    
    One of the things that jumped out immediately this year, of course, is
    that a lot fewer prominent developers made the trip to Ottawa this
    year. Evidently the combination of travel burnout and economic worries
    kept a lot of people at home. Many of those people were missed.
    
    On the other hand, IBM's presence at OLS was truly surprising. By one
    IBMer's guess, there were fifty people there from IBM - out of a
    conference maximum of 500. Despite their numbers, however, the IBM
    folks did not really stand out - they were simply engineers working on
    the improvement of free software like everybody else. Many of them are
    doing the same work they were doing before they became IBM employees.
    IBM appears to be determined to play a part in the Linux development
    community, and to do so on the community's terms. Linux is richer for
    the company's presence.
    
    Clusters are growing up. Linux clusters have long been a valuable tool
    for those seeking high availability or high performance, but only for
    those who do not mind their "some assembly required" nature. Now we
    are finally seeing the development of specialized distributions which
    make clusters easy to build and manage, efforts to create standards
    for high-availability cluster interfaces, and other necessary tools of
    the trade. Expect cluster adoption to increase greatly as these tools
    mature and become widely available.
    
    Finally, it is clear that the community needs this sort of
    development-oriented gathering. There is a place for flashy trade
    shows, but there is also a need for gatherings with lots of talk time,
    no suits, no trade floor, good network connectivity, a highly
    technical program, and plenty of beer. It's not often that the
    widespread Linux development community is able to get together and
    really talk about what it is doing. Events like OLS are a vital part
    of the free software development process; one can only hope that they
    thrive.
    
    Dmitry Sklyarov update. Various things are happening in the story of
    the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov. We'll summarize them below, but here,
    perhaps, is the most relevant part: Dmitry Sklyarov is still in jail
    (in Oklahoma, last we have heard), and the government still intends to
    pursue the case. So, in that sense, nothing has really improved.
    
    That said, here's what's been happening:
      * The Electronic Frontier Foundation [39]met with the U.S.
        Attorney's Office on July 27. In the EFF's words: "There was a
        productive dialog, however the U.S. Attorney's office gave no
        indication of dropping the prosecution against Dmitry Sklyarov."
        The EFF seems to think that this approach is going no further for
        now, and has called for a resumption of protests.
      * Canada is [40]reworking its copyright law and is looking at
        anti-circumvention measures as part of that process.
        Anti-circumvention, of course, is at the core of the trouble with
        the DMCA, and is the aspect of that law that Dmitry Sklyarov is
        charged with violating. It remains, thus far, unique to U.S. law
        (or nearly so); a spread of this disease to other countries would
        not be a welcome development.
        At this time, it would appear that anti-circumvention provisions
        are not a done deal for the new Canadian law. Reading into [41]the
        available documents, one finds the following:
        
      In other words, by providing legal recognition of the technological
      measures, the traditional boundaries of copyright law would be
      extended to include new layers of protection. There is concern that
      the Copyright Act may not be the proper instrument for protection
      measures that, prima facie, are extraneous to copyright principles.
        Those of you who are Canadian citizens may want to [42]read about
        the proposed law and the comment process that is currently open.
        If enough people submit well-written comments opposed to
        anti-circumvention provisions, Canada may just be able to avoid
        some of the unpleasantness currently happening in the U.S.
      * Though we would certainly like to see more coverage of this issue
        in the mainstream press, it has gotten some attention there. Among
        the week's best is [43]this article by Lawrence Lessig in the New
        York Times. "Yet Mr. Sklyarov still languishes in jail, puzzled,
        no doubt, about how a free society can jail someone for writing
        code that was legal where written, just because he comes to the
        United States and gives a report on encryption weaknesses."
      * See also [44]this letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein from the ACM:
        
      We recently read that you had heard of no credible opposition to
      the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). As the Co-Chairs of
      the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing
      Machinery (ACM), we are writing to inform you that ACM has
      consistently opposed the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA.
        
    Those interested in up-to-the-minute information can find it at
    [45]FreeSklyarov.org.
    
    You have heard it all before, but it bears repeating: it is time for
    supporters of free software (and thus, of freedom) to get involved
    with their political systems. Too many laws are being made with little
    understanding of the technical issues and too much influence from a
    small subset of the interests involved. We need to talk some sense
    into our governments, or we may find ourselves free to write all the
    code we want - as long as it does nothing interesting.
    
    Frank Willison, editor-in-chief at O'Reilly & Associates, passed away
    as the result of a massive heart attack on July 30. Frank was a key
    player at O'Reilly and played a big role in the company's coverage of
    free software topics. In particular, the Perl and Python book lines
    bear his imprint in a big way. Frank shares, in some way, the credit
    for the success of those languages, though he would have denied that:
    
      ...the Camel book did not legitimize Perl. It may have accelerated
      Perl's adoption by making information about Perl more readily
      available. But the truth is that Perl would have succeeded without
      an O'Reilly book (as would Python and Zope), and that we're very
      pleased to have been smart enough to recognize Perl's potential
      before other publishers did.
      
    Frank will be missed, both inside and outside of O'Reilly.
    
    For more information on Frank, numerous quotes that are well worth
    reading, and the opportunity to post notes of your own, please see
    [46]In Memory of Frank Willison on the O'Reilly site.
    
    Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:
      * [47]Security: Second coming of Code Red, Linux 2.2 masq problems,
        and one geek at DEF CON.
      * [48]Kernel: A new event completion interface; ext3 improvements;
        initramfs.
      * [49]Distributions: Is it time for distributors to consolidate?
        Devil-Linux, GNU-Darwin, and Conectiva 7.0.
      * [50]On the Desktop: HP and the VFX market, beyond KDE 2.2, and
        GIMP 1.2.2.
      * [51]Development: Python division concerns, Cluster working group,
        faster C++ startup, PHP conference, new Lisp, Caml, and Jython
        compilers.
      * [52]Commerce: MandrakeSoft's successful IPO; Gaming on Linux takes
        a VAST leap forward.
      * [53]History: William Della Croche's attempt on the Linux
        trademark; SGI jumps into Linux; Caldera and SCO announce plans
        for a merger.
      * [54]Letters: The morality of proprietary software.
        
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