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Posts from Dirk Hohndel (Intel) 
Community matters - inside and outside of a company
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on February 28, 2008 at 8:08 pm
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We just finished our annual Intel Open Source Technology Summit. An Intel-internal conference that brings together the leaders (both engineers and influencers / decision makers) in open source across Intel. Two days of presentations and lots and lots of time to talk, exchange ideas, connect names and faces and most importantly have fun. The event reminded [...]
Category: Open Source
It's all about the specs
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on February 21, 2008 at 8:48 am
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Interesting post from Jon Corbett over at LWN (depending on when you read this, you might need an LWN account - which is a must have, IMHO, so go ahead, subscribe). Anyway, what Jon explains is that there is ongoing debate on whether the community should actually reverse engineer hardware in order to support it [...]
Category: Open Source
Dell and Linux - there's more to come
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on March 13, 2007 at 7:59 pm
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Now look at this... our fine friends at Dell have not given up on Linux, yet. Instead they have added a very neat little Poll on their website which should help them figure out what to do. If you are interested in Linux, why don't you give them some feedback?
Category: Open Source
Show us the code
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on February 24, 2007 at 9:35 pm
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Here's an interesting effort in the open source community. A request to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to put some evidence behind the frequent claims that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents. The people at show us the code are specifically asking for, as they put it, the common curtesy to tell the Linux community which code [...]
Category: Open Source
Google's Office Suite
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on February 22, 2007 at 2:44 pm
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Oops, I of course meant to say Google Apps. Google execs continue to point out that this is not intended to compete with Microsoft Office. I don't know whom they think they are kidding. They have Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs&Spreadsheet... ok, a PowerPoint clone is missing, but still... this is squarely targeted [...]
Category: Open Source
There is no end user demand for Linux? Guess again.
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on February 20, 2007 at 9:54 pm
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Dell recently added a customer feedback site on the web. The #1 request was not what people expected. At the time of this writing, the #1 request is for pre-installed Linux and multi-boot solutions. Interesting. Not necessarily representative (we all know how easy it is to cheat on polls on the web), but I have to [...]
Category: Open Source
Open source impact on software M&A
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on February 15, 2007 at 8:18 am
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Larry Augustin chaired a panel on "The Impact of Open Source on Software M&A" at the LinuxWord Open Solution Summit in New York. I thought this was a fascinating topic - open source has so fundamentally changed the software world and many (most?) software startups these days are at least partly involved in (or using) open [...]
Category: Open Source
Ubuntu is sending a signal - sort of
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on February 14, 2007 at 9:59 am
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Under the headline "Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty" Joe Brockmeier at Linux.Com posted an article that appears to be wonderful news for supporters of open source drivers. But reading the original announcememt by Ubuntu's CTO Matt Zimmerman things sound a lot less black and white. Which is disappointing in some ways. All [...]
Category: Open Source
Back to open source drivers
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on February 13, 2007 at 9:17 am
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Greg KH - always a fun guy to talk to, and the right person to start a little controversy here and there - is on a mission. A mission to help hardware vendors figure something out that Intel thankfully has figured out a while ago: open source drivers are a Good ThingTM. He has started [...]
Category: Open Source
Ahh - open source wins
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on February 12, 2007 at 4:00 pm
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Ok, I may be jumping to conclusions here... but at least in a very localized way the title is correct. After fighting with the old horrible blog tool (which was proprietary and shall remain nameless) we have switched over to WordPress. The same open source blogging tool that I am running on my servers at [...]
Category: Open Source
Wow - it's 2007!
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on January 5, 2007 at 4:03 am
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How did that happen? Looks like I was too busy with my other blogs and completely stopped posting here for a couple of months. Oops Good thing nothing important happened during that time. Or did it? Let's see. The FCC forced at&t to guarantee net neurality - at least for a few years. That's good news, I think. [...]
Category: Open Source
Software must be beautiful
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on October 30, 2006 at 8:25 pm
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Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth posted an entry to his blog in which he states that software needs to be beautiful and functional in order to be really successful, to be embraced by the world. What a fascinating thought. Not exactly new, but it's rare that an widely listened to leader in the open source world states it [...]
Category: Open Source
Peer to peer is useful
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on September 25, 2006 at 4:59 pm
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In a lot of the public discussion, peer to peer networks are used as a synonym for "illegal file sharing". Problem is, while they are about file sharing, that doesn't have to be illegal at all. No, I am not going to start a blog entry about all the things that I think are wrong with [...]
Category: Open Source
China Open Source Promotion Union
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on August 24, 2006 at 5:44 am
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I'm in Beijing right now, attending the 2006 Open Source China Open Source World conference held by the China Open Source Promotion Union. Despite the bombastic title, this is actually an event that brings together a number of interesting players. Political and technical leaders in the open source community in China. And a number of open [...]
Category: Open Source
The importance of open source drivers
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on August 10, 2006 at 11:25 pm
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Yesterday Intel had a very important major release. But it's not a new processor or platform or branding strategy that I'm talking about. It's the release of the open source drivers for the integrated graphics in the Intel 965 Express chipset family. In the past this would have gone unnocticed. With the much higher attention that [...]
Category: Open Source
How much safer does closing your source make things?
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on August 6, 2006 at 1:29 pm
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The quick answer seems to be "not much". Last week Lukas Grunwald showed that the highly touted RFID chip in the new electronic passports is not as secure as its proponents want us to believe. Also last week it appears that a security flaw was found in the (closed source) wireless drivers for a certain [...]
Category: Open Source
25 years of the Personal Computer
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on July 28, 2006 at 5:53 pm
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Dave Bradley (one of the 12 engineers at IBM who developed the original PC) spoke at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland today about 25 years of the personal computer. A fascinating mini-keynote with some great pictures (including Bill Gates in 1980) and cute anecdotes (Steve Balmer as Microsoft receptionist in 1981). But what impressed [...]
Category: Open Source
Rubbing my eyes - open source is allegedly the cause for malware?
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on July 21, 2006 at 2:58 am
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Sometimes I wonder. Right now I am in Ottawa at the Ottawa Linux Symposium where more than 800 Linux and open source developers are coming together to discuss their latest ideas and to celebrate the success of open source (and let's just say, they know how to celebrate). Earlier this week I was here at [...]
Category: Open Source
Are major companies really helping open source?
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on July 14, 2006 at 8:43 pm
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Many of the more vocal members of the open source community (and especially, of the free software community) seem rather suspicious of large corporations. On the other hand there are a fair number of big and really big companies that very actively participate and contribute in free and open source software. As this blog is [...]
Category: Open Source
Just what the world needed - another blog
By Dirk Hohndel (Intel) (20 posts) on July 12, 2006 at 5:12 pm
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I know they will interrupt the programming on most TV stations world-wide to announce this major event - "Dirk Hohndel started a blog at Intel. It's his third!" (the other two are at my own site: Community Matters and Random Thoughts - the first one talks about open source, the web, high tech toys and [...]