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DevConf.cz 2016 is taking place this weekend in Brno, Czech Republic. Over the years, DevConf has become the largest Linux and open-source oriented events in Central Europe. Head over to Brno to mingle with over a 1000 developers, open source advocates, and users.

DevConf.cz 2016 has announced a Call for Papers. DevConf.cz, held annually in Brno, Czech Republic, is one of the largest Linux and open-source oriented events in central Europe. Submit your proposals by November 30, 2015.

The biggest Czech Linux portal, AbcLinuxu.cz, reimbursed a user for a MS Windows Vista Business OEM license in Lenovo CR's stead. The paid amount is the same as the manufacturer offered for returning the license in accordance with the Windows EULA. However, Lenovo CR required the user to sign a non-disclosure agreement that would cover the entire negotiations with the company and its results for the compensation to be effected.

Sun's VP for software says on the topic of sharing code between Solaris and Linux kernels: 'I think, in the long term, that is where we're going to end up. It's inevitable and it's a great thing.' Rich Green also talks about other Sun open source projects and its recent acquisitions of free software companies MySQL and Innotek (VirtualBox).

Opera Software's CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner explains why they will not release the Opera browser as open source, arguing that open standards are more important than open source: "I'm not convinced that it would help us as a company to go open source. We have not seen any way that would allow us to do that and at the same time continue to increase investment."

Mark Shuttleworth talks about about success, failure, and the lessons he has learned. He gives his thoughts on Linux gaming, KDE vs. Gnome in Ubuntu, Microsoft's patent deals, the OpenXML format, and tivoization. From the interview: ' I'm strongly encouraging KDE to adopt the same release schedule as Gnome, because I think they would become more widely tested and more widely adopted if they did this.'

Alan Cox talks about cooperation with hardware vendors, US patent law, and what GPLv3 is going to mean for Novell: "Personally I think [the MS-Novell deal] is a bad idea and that Novell are going to get stung by the GPLv3, and rightfully so. The license is designed to keep the software free, if it fails to do this then it needs fixing, so GPLv3 hopefully will fix this flaw."

Andy Ritger, the Director of Unix Software at NVIDIA, talks about new features in Linux drivers, development environment, and in-company Linux use.

Matthew Szulik talks about GPLv3, DRM, media content, and the future of Linux kernel development model. From the article: "I think people like Alan Cox and Ingo Molnar and a variety of contributors around the world have clearly communicated that the open source model in the kernel development methodologies along with the tools and other components will live long after the current maintainers move on to do other interesting things."