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Linux Australia votes in first female president

January 28, 2003 12:50pm PST

Linux Australia's new president, Pia Smith, says it's time for Linux Australia to get serious. ZDNet Australia talks to her about the organisation's plans for 2003.

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Thousands of AU developers protest US trade pact

June 23, 2004 4:50pm PDT

Almost 3,000 developers from Australia and abroad have voiced their opposition to the proposed intellectual property clauses in the United States-Australia Free Trade agreement.

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IBM and NICTA team up for open source

April 30, 2003 1:00pm PDT

IBM Australia and National ICT Australia have joined forces to give open source software a boost into the enterprise space.

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Don't miss developments from Linux.conf.au 2012

January 20, 2012 12:32pm PST

TechRepublic Australia is has been covering the Linux.conf.au 2012 conference in Ballarat this week. Here's the low-down on some very provocative sessions.

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Linux Australia's Rusty Wrench award returns

November 28, 2011 5:06pm PST

After an absence of four years, Linux Australia's award for outstanding service to the FOSS community is back.

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Interview with Alan Cox

January 28, 2003 3:40pm PST

One of the head programmers behind Linux, Alan Cox talks exclusively to Builder Australia about the uptake of Linux, Microsoft's plans to share its source code and his Linux predictions.

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Torvalds lands in Adelaide

January 12, 2004 5:20pm PST

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has landed in Australia unexpectedly to attend linux.conf.au 2004, held in Adelaide this week.

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MPAA blames Linux Australia notice on 'human error'

October 6, 2004 5:57pm PDT

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has blamed Linux Australia's wrongful receipt of a copyright infringement notice on a worker's "bad day".

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Linux Australia fights Motion Picture Association of America notice

September 20, 2004 5:04pm PDT

What seems to be an embarrassing blunder by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in its hunt for online pirates has prompted Linux Australia to contact its legal representatives and...

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Mini-Confs Day 2

January 16, 2007 6:42pm PST

Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007.

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Almost as good as being there

May 1, 2003 2:30pm PDT

Virtual machines gained popularity as a way to emulate Windows on Mac OS or Linux. ZDNet Australia looks at the two most popular packages.

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PHP creator: Rasmus Lerdof

January 31, 2003 3:00pm PST

Builder Australia recently caught up with PHP innovator Rasmus Lerdorf, to talk about the success of PHP, the open source movement and what we can expect to see in PHP 5.

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IPv6: time to change?

November 5, 2002 12:30pm PST

Keeping the current version of Internet Protocol, the world will run out of IP addresses by 2007. So is it time to move to IPv6? ZDNet Australia investigates.

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Linux.conf.au 2012

January 24, 2012 8:58pm PST

Linux.conf.au 2012 is over for another year, check out the best pictures of the conference before it heads to Canberra in 2013.

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Talking IP with Kimberlee Weatherall and Rusty Russell

January 31, 2007 5:38pm PST

Law professor and intellectual property expert Kimberlee Weatherall and Linux Australia's IP Policy Adviser, Rusty Russell, talk about the new intellectual property laws

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Rift divides FOSS community, says Linux body

April 22, 2005 1:26pm PDT

Linux Australia's immediate past president believes moderate open source developers are being pushed into "a refugee situation" between the 'free software' and 'commercial' hardliners.

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Linux security is as strong as ever, despite recent stats that say otherwise

December 3, 2002 8:00am PST

Recent security comparisons have suggested that Linux is not nearly the security-clad OS that it claims to be. But when the research is faulty, any comments based on it are faulty as well. Such is...

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Linux.conf.au day one: Less hype more code

January 23, 2003 2:10pm PST

A sold out Linux.conf.au 2003 started with the cheering of Linux users, hacks and hobbyists when Linus Torvalds was introduced suited up as none other than Tux, the famous Linux icon.

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Hard to be positive on new IP laws says lawyer

January 31, 2007 5:38pm PST

Law professor and intellectual property (IP) expert Kimberlee Weatherall has described the latest changes to IP law as horrible

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Linux Australia honours IP lawyer

January 23, 2007 4:11pm PST

Law professor and intellectual property expert Kimberlee Weatherall was honoured with an award for service to the open source community