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DOHCS, the Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Solutions conference, has extended their 2009 call for papers through November 15th. If you are working with open source software in the health care space, this is the event for you. Check out www.dohcs.org

Ted covers open source and the cloud during his interview on the Linux Action Show

Apparently building insecure and unreliable voting systems is not enough. Now Diebold feels the need to violate the GPL by not releasing code for their use of GhostScript. The GhostScript guys should be asking for more than $150K, that sum seems rather small considering the amount of money those machines probably sold for. Maybe we'll get lucky and see some Diebold code open up as part of this.

Fred von Lohmann discusses the anti circumvention and safe harbor portions of the DMCA.

So GM appears to be on its last legs. Kind of depressing considering I work for a company, which is reliant on advertising dollars from the automotive industry :\

Now this brings back memories…