relevance

Linux Journal: "...the places where books are stored -- especially those that make them freely available to the public -- are important repositories of the world's knowledge, of relevance to all.

So coders too should care about them alongside the other kind, and should be concerned that there is a threat to their ability to provide ready access to knowledge they have created themselves.

The good news is that open source can save them."

Standards Blog: "This newest challenge to the continued relevance of ISO and IEC was thrown when major IT agencies of six nations - Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Paraguay, South Africa and Venezuela - signed a declaration that deploring the refusal of ISO and IEC to further review the appeals submitted by the National Bodies of four nations."

Titled "Debian GNU/Linux: 15 Years Old and at the Crossroads" and "Debian @15 is it still relevant?", these comments takes a look at the purpose and relevance of Debian.

On July 15, Red Hat and Firestar released the terms of the settlement [PDF] of their patent suit.

When we last looked at this settlement, those terms were not available.

Now we can examine exactly what was agreed to and assess the degree of protection that Red Hat actually negotiated for the wider community.

It may be tempting to say that recent events have reduced the relevance of this settlement, but that would be a mistake; what Red Hat has done here still matters.