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Google: Open source lets us control our destiny

Chris DiBona, Google's open source program manager, gave the opening keynote at the Open Source Developer's Conference. Builder AU caught up with him to discuss why Google uses open source, how the company open sources its software and what it is like to be a comic book character. Read more »

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Why C remains relevant

Rusty Russell gave the keynote at this year's Open Source Developer's Conference on a subject close to his heart, C. Read more »

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Top 5 tech predictions for 2008

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OSDC 2009 opens call for papers

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- It's a long-standing policy that if you contribute to a conference, you receive free entry. The easiest way to contribute is to do a talk, and until the end of June you can set that up by responding to OSDC 2009's call for papers. Read more »

The festive season not so festive

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This is still meant to be the festive season, isn't it? When they say you should show goodwill towards your fellow (hu)man, I don't think they meant redundancy payments. Read more »

You shall be replaced by a small shell script

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's roundup covers OSDC, Google's attempt to get school kids into open source, the roel of automation in software development, why we hate salespeople and more. Read more »

Twinkle Twinkle newbie Star

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- If you are covering the event from an editorial perspective, there is still the opportunity to have ideas and talk about them. Read more »

Make money from free code

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- The Open Source Developers conference began Wednesday morning at Monash University in Melbourne. Read more »

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    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

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