Club Linux Coffs Harbour

Jost recieved this via email:

My name is Donovan Craig, I'm a founder of Go4 Multimedia . We've recently re-located our business to Bellingen and have an office here on Hyde St.

At the moment we have a Linux Administrator/PHP developer position vailable (which we're hoping to become full time for the right person).

The following strengths are required:

- Linux shell experience (ie: bash)
- Some development experience ie: one of perl/PHP/Java - Understanding of protocols such as POP3, SSH, SMTP etc.
- Previous experience managing hosting environments is an advantage.

After months of rumours, hints, intimations, etc. that Sun will finally release Java under a free license, Sun has announced that they will be re-releasing their Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 5 under - drumroll, please - a slightly different proprietary license.  While Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth is pleased that the new license allows him to distribute proprietary, binary-only Java packages, Red Hat's CTO is less than impressed.

The way I see it, this slightly more permissive license means:

• More people will be using more proprietary software, many without being aware of it.
• Support for the development of a truly free Java platform will be undermined.

Sun have again trotted out the usual justification for not freeing Java: it's in order to "[maintain] Java's 'write once, run anywhere' compatibility promise", because for some reason we are supposed to believe it's impossible for a free software platform to deliver this.  Three words, okay?  "Perl", "Python", "PHP".

My, I'm a grumpy Gus today.