[Nottingham] Some curious tidbits

[Jason Irwin]

Seeing as I haven't caused enough controversy on this list recently,
here's a few  stories to stir things up.

GNU Emacs violates the GPL
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/say-what-gnu-emacs-violates-gpl

Is Microsoft the largest contributor to the Linux kernel?
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-contributes-a-lot-of-changes-to-Linux-kernel-3-0-1280528.html

And...err...WTF?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA2kqAIOoZM

"FaifCast 0x15: Karen Keynotes OSCON" where Karen discusses the issues
with proprietary code and medical implants makes some quite scary listening.
http://faif.us/cast/2011/aug/02/0x15/

Cheers for the talk last night, Martin.  I thought you handles the
heckling malcontents rather smoothly. :-P

-- 
Jason Irwin