Show i'7 I ' C12 — The HeraldJoumal Logan Utah Wednesday i' 14 2004 April I s' :'!i j 'cue Cooking Contest May 5 also known as the Super Bowl of i Swine or the Granddaddy of Grills is part of a monthof fun called the Memphis in May International Festi- i 13-1- i Start working upan appetite because it’s almosttime to visit Memphis Tenn' for the world’s' ‘biggest barbpcue cookojut And that's one of the Reasons to visit the ' just ' city that calls itself the home of thd ' blues and the birthplace of rock V roll The World Championship Barbe- - ' Cl automotive industry actually ' works: producing standard parts and allowing local garages access to those parts And of course making sure the engine is accessible to anyone interested in tinkering The Internet is the most vis- ible example of this idea No one owns the rights or codes to it Anyone is able to add to or improve on it To quote OpenSourceorg ' “The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read redistribute and modify the source software code for a piece-othe software evolves People improve it people adapt it people fix bugs And this can happen at a speed that if oneis used to the slow pace of conventional software development seems astonishing” Hall stresses that hot only is open source software a per-fectly viable alternative to' proprietary software but it also offers businesses the choice to create software that will work exactly the way they want it to — rather than adjusting work to suit the soft- -' f : ware- - So how are the computer scientists supposed to put any food on the table? Hall says they should focus on a local service-drive- n rather than a 'V ' ' - 'v- $ ’ ' ment” ce ( is home to a number of chibs Check ' sion of the Smithsonian Insfctution ' out the history and the “Clubs & And don't forge! Elvis Presley’s' Graceland — Shops’-guidbut skip the empty tionized Memphis Listen to a little calendar of events http:wwwelviscoingraceland — Y ' J click on It and then took clubs more than where you can tk virtual tours tb produce guitar magic “Menu” to learn about the birthplace the Memphis sound The Gibson before deciding if you want to take of it all Sam Phillips' Memphis Beale Street Showcase — the real thing Try out the Graceland- - ‘ — on and Service “JourCam for a live view bf die mansion Recording http:wwwgibsonmcmphiscom " has a link to the factory where you The National Civil Rights Musepip ney" for musical milestones The city’s musical character wid can see Gibson guitars beingnuuie bom on Beale Street While you’re there click on "Smith- - ' httpwwwxivilrightsmuseumorg which is located at die site where Martin sonirbr for the link to the Memphis (http:wwwbealestreetcom) has changed since its heyday but still Rock ’N’ Soul Museirm an exten- Luther King Jr was assassinated over Linux other than this nqtion that I know what I'm doing” he told Wired calling himself “Linux’s hood oma- - softidealistic open-sourware creation something he’s not too comfortable with “The easy story line was that I was an idealist” he said in a November 2003 article in Wired magazine “even though that isn’t the motivation for Linux My reasons for putting Linux out there were pretty selfish I didn’t want the headache of trying to deal with parts of the operatinjg ' system that I saw as the crap ' ' ' '' : sauce isn’t your thing the Beale Street Music Festival features four stages of performahces from April 30 to May 2 This year marks 50 Years of Rock : ' i V ' ' V' Y 4 i ' ’ - - ' (http:wwwhiemphisinmayocg) If the plangent perfume of barbecue -- with it s ' e val displace (Jnix a major eUuy software company But before fie could produce a reliable kernel of an operating system he was beat to the punch by a kid — relatively speaking Linus Torvalds was a 21 yearold university student living with his mother in Helsinki Finland when he wrote the kernel of an operating system and named it Linux On Sept 17 1991 he made his rough' creation available with the source code for free download from a university Internet site He told his comrades that they could use it fix it improve it or add to it all they wanted All he asked was that any changes they came up with be shared with everyone else at no cost t— an idea he rowed from Stallman It’s a move that has turned Torvalds now 34 into soine- thing of a demigod the ultimate example of selfless ' ''i ' is W 'Supier Bowl 6f Swine’ 1 Continued from 'V- -' visit I 't ' V i V And so it went until one day in 1999 when two leading ' d companies Red' Hat and VA Linux decided to say thanks handing him stock options with no strings attached When Red Hat went public that same year Torvalds suddenly had $1 million to his name The day VA Linux (now VA Software) went public Torvalds was worth approximately $20 million but by the time he could sell his shares they were valued at only a fraction of that The success of Linux however has not come without a LinuX-base- price In March of 2003 the SCO Group a software company based in Lindon Utah that has been far more successful at raking in the dough in court than it has in actual sales declared war SCO claims that IBM a huge Linux supporter and contributor leaked some of its Unix code into Linux and that this contribution helped Linux grow into an : operating system reliable v enough for IBM to sell Linux-base-d systems to Fortune 500 companies SCO initially filed suit for $1 billion although at last count that number has been bumped to $3 billion A trial isn’t scheduled until well into next year but SCO isn’t wasting any time drawing lines in the sand In May 2003 SCO sent letters to 1500 laige companies warning that Linux is tainted with stolen code and that those who use it may be legally responsible! “We believe that Linux infringes on our Unix intellectual property and other rights’’ the letter said “We intend to aggressively protect and enforce those rights" SCO CEO Dari McBride said later in an interview “The business model of Linux distribution is broken it’s like the business model of the dotcoms Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster” It's easy to imagine how the Linux faithful responded to SCO's aggression They immediately went to work bashing the company in chat groups launching a denial attack on the compasite and even Web ny’s picketing at its headquarters McBride doesn’t deny the fact that this could hurt business but feels that someone needs to set the standard Many believe however that this incident with SCO will be only a minor the process of open source software wipingout proprietary software all together In an article on about the SCO versus Linux battle Matt Asay the open source business strategist for Novell was quoted as saying “There simply is no future outside of open source with Linu front and center Though the closed source model will continue to work for certain areas of software open source will devour infrastructure software Those that don’t align themselves with the open source revolution will be destroyed by it It’s that simple” Hall told members of the USU computer science department and Free Software and Linux Club virtually the -service Cto Connect-Utahco- m same thing on Friday “I'm sorry for them die V proprietary software companies” lie said “but then I’d be soriy for the people who made buggy whips yhen the ' car Came out" One of the reasons the open source movement is destined for greatness he said is the sheer speed and innovation dial are possible when everybody all over the World can work on it together “What scares Microsoft immensely is that open source is just about caught up” he said “And what happens when we pass them? They know they're not innovative Take a look at what they call innovative and it’s not Bill ' Gates said the Internet would ' never go anywhere” He said that one thing the public needs to know about the open source movement is that “there is a community of people all over the world involved in this and anyone can join and be welcome” The hand of Linux is ever l ' - work I wanted help” Torvalds eventually moved to Silicon Valley and actually product-drive- n approach struggled to make ends meet ' “We need to tailor soft- businesses while Linux-base- d ware to local businesses" he begin springing up around him and succeeding Many of said “In order to do that you have to see the person and the those businesses offered him business It has to be done jobs One actually offered him handis lot a There of $10 million in options if he locally 'would sit on its board of holding that has to be done at the place of business We want directors But he refused all the offers not wanting to to put people to work in the local who eat localeconomy compromise his objectivity which he thought lie would if food and who pay local ' taxes'’ helent his authority to any A computer scientist at single company — which didn’t help that whole idealist MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab named Richard Stallman story any ’’ The world assumed he was came up with the idea of free ' software (“free as in ‘freedom getting rich off his creation when in reality he wasn’t getof speech” he wrote “not as in ‘free beer’”) iii 1984 when ting a penny from it All he owned technically was the he launched a project called name (jNU aimed at creating a free “I don't have any authority that would operating system Continued from r Cl : summer recreation after the : ' workday has ended : Following these ing precedents a few have even given the clock a second look ' Swatch (vywwswatchcom) the trendy watch manufacturer ' ' from Switzerland sponsors an initiative it calls Internet Time As die name impliesit’s an effort to provide a global time standard for the Internet and ' those who use it Rather than the standard 1440 minutes In a traditional 24 hour day Inter- net Time divides the passage of time in a metrie system-lik- e 1000“beatx” perday : Another initiative from ( Auckland New Zealand called New Earth Time (ncwearthdmenet) proposesa more organic base of 360 Earth day divisions coincid- - : v ing with the number of j degrees in a circle Degrees : 'are subdivided into 60 ' and 60 ‘ 1 Earthly kitchen and Bath time-chan- gr organi-zatio- ns Before the weather starts heating up cod off with a Dave Lennox Signature home comfort system— and' 24-ho- ur Toys’-'- -' cash in on big savings! 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