Bob Young – The connection between Ibiblio, Open Source, Lulu, and the number 42

Entrepreneurs can be found in all fields of human activity, not just business. The common characteristic of Entrepreneurs, and most humans for that matter, is they eventually get tired of just listening and throwing things at the television set, or the pompous Professor at the front of the room, or their software supplier, and instead decide one day to do something about it. This explains Paul Jones and Ibiblio, it explains Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds of the free-software-open-source-gnu-linux movement, and it explains Lulu. It also explains the number 42.

Bob Young: ibiblio, Open Source, and the Number 42 from ibiblio on Vimeo.

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Bio:

Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, the premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 100,000 recently published titles and more than 2,500 new titles added each week, created by people in 80 different countries.

Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young’s most recent endeavour. The success of this company has earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of the “Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006” and was ranked as the fourth “Top Entrepreneur for 2006,” both by Silicon.com.

In 1993 Young co-founded Red Hat, the open source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Red Hat has evolved into a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft and Sun. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week’s “Top Entrepreneurs” in 1999.

Fred Stutzman: Do you REALLY know facebook?

Fred Stutzman: do you REALLY know facebook? from ibiblio on Vimeo.

Facebook, Myspace … whether you have 1,000 online “friends” or don’t quite understand the appeal, online social networking is impacting your world. What’s the inside story? “Do You REALLY Know Facebook?” is the first in a series of free Current Science Forums at MPSC. To open the forum, Fred shares some news about where these online tools are going.

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Bio:

Fred Stutzman is a visiting assistant professor at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science, the co-founder of ClaimID.com and an expert quoted in Newsweek magazine’s September cover story on Facebook. He is also the founder of Eighty Percent Solutions, which distributes the productivity software Freedom and Anti-Social.

Sapna Kumar on GPLv3


The June 2007 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group was held at 7pm, June 14, at Red Hat on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University. The speaker was Sapna Kumar, who spoke about the GNU General Public License version 3. She discussed changes in GPL v.3 and what they mean for hackers, infighting that has been going on inside the open source community and how v.3 deals with the growing threat of software patents.

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Sapna Kumar is a faculty fellow at Duke University Law School. Her areas of interest include open source software, patent reform in biotechnology, and federal agency law. Prior to coming to Duke, she was in private practice, focusing on patent litigation and software licensing.