Daniel Pocock's personal blog

News has emerged about the tragic, untimely and sudden deathof Daniel Bristot de Oliveira, a Brazilian-Italian employee ofIBM Red Hat.
Our first thoughts at this time should be with his family, friendsand colleagues.
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira is somebody who really gave a lot of hislife to Linux and open source, through his education, through hisemployment and through the community commitments in his free time....

It is now one year sinceIBM Red Hat announced restrictions onthe availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code.
At the time, various people wrote to me commenting that I had beenright in my concerns about the direction of open source software andthe increasingly fake communities like theFSFE misfits who pretend to be FSF....

Techrights has suggested on a number of occasions thatJulian Assange was a Debian Developer at some time in the 1990s.
I looked in the Debianpeople tracker and I couldn't find any record ofAssange.I looked atcontributors.debian.org and he is not there either.That doesn't mean he was not engaged in Debian in the past....

WhileJulian Assangewas only flown half way around the world today,the whole world was watching.
Will people believe and accept the verdict or was this simply a wasteof carbon emissions?
Assangewas given a choice: his health deteriorating, he might diea martyr. If waiting in the two by three meter cell didn't kill him, hemight survive appeal after appeal to be released from prison some timeafter his children have grown up in another...