[SpikeFri] Linux Desktop is like teenage sex, Katrina and Wilma have friends and Playboy does Eclipse

"The desktop has become a lot like teenage sex: a lot of people are talking about it but not many people are doing it," so declares the big cheese of Red Hat Matthew Szulik.  This was at the tail end of a full blown attack on the companies that don't remain true to the GPL and software patents and how they are hurting innovation at the CIO conference Vortex05 in the Bay area.  Noting that Red Hat does approximately 60% of its business through partners like HP and Dell, they prefer to maintain their relationships with end customers with their community programs such as Fedora for example.  The ChannelRegister has the extensive report on the full rant:

• http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/10/27/redhat_customer_control/

When Katrina hit the south coast of America it brought much destruction.  But hurricane season wasn't over.  Nasa have published an interesting video showing a rapid timeline of all the hurriances since June and the paths they have taken.  Fascinating viewing, and goes to highlight just how many hurricanes there have been.  After viewing this video, you can see the hurricane season is aptly named!

• http://www.nasa.gov/mpeg/136417main_hurricanes2005_Wide_320x240.mpeg

Having formly edited a couple of technical magazines, I have always held the belief that a magazine that would mix technical articles with Playboy type content would be a hit considering the majority male demographic of the software world.  It would appear that I am not alone in recognizing this overlap, as Playboy Enterprises have begun mirroring the Eclipse project along side other popular open source applications.  I think this is just an excuse for corporations to allow the playboy.com domain to be seen on the proxy/firewall logs without anyone getting fired!

• http://mirrors.playboy.com/

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