While the World (and I) was all concentrating on the departure of Steve Jobs, a man whose achievements have had an even greater impact on today's world is with us no more. Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie left us on 8 October 2011. It is sad, very sad, that all major press reported the two passing aways with so starkingly different emphasis. The C programming language is the foundation of all modern operating systems, and virtually of all commonly used applications and programming languages. But the reality distortion field is still on.
The programme of the SFScon 2009 has been published.
South Tyrol Free Software Conference 2009
The SFScon of the 13th November 2009 - the South Tyrol Free Software Conference - is an International Conference on Free Software, which is held annually in South Tyrol. This years topic of the SFScon is: "Free Software: For Innovative Business!".
On 28th October in Rome an experts round table will take place, speaking about governance of Free and Open Source Software. The conference, which is organized by INFORAV, in co-operation with IPSEMA will discuss about how to procure such kind of software and how to sustain and govern it on the long run.
