Nat Torkington

Four short links: 20 January 2010

Brazilian Open Source, PostgreSQL Replication, Bug Fixing Lessons, Copyright Fail

by | @gnat  | Comment | 20 January 2010

  1. Governmental Open Source Software Policies: Brazil Experience (World Bank) -- the slides give the gist, and the range of places in which open source is being used in Brazil is quite staggering: digital TV middleware, sewage management systems, local government management systems. (via lhawthorn on Twitter)
  2. Bucardo -- PostgreSQL master/slave replication system. (via Selena Deckelmann)
  3. Learning from 10 Years of Bugzilla Data -- presentation looking for bug-fixing patterns in open source projects. (via Mark Surman)
  4. Copyright Fail (BoingBoing) -- rare out-of-copyright Jack Benny masters discovered in the CBS vaults, but CBS won't release them or say why. As Cory says, "this isn't how copyright is supposed to work."

tags: brazil, copyright, debugging, opensource, postgres, scalability

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