Ruth Suehle

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Raleigh, NC

Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager for Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team. She's co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O'Reilly, December 2013) and a senior editor at GeekMom, a site for those who find their joy in both geekery and parenting. She's a maker at heart who is often behind a sewing machine creating costumes, rolling fondant for an excessively large cake, or looking for the next great DIY project.

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Authored Content

Infographic: "When Patents Attack!" from patent good to patent profiteering

This week FrugalDad posted an infographic about how the patent system has reacted to the rapid pace of technology, inspired by the "When Patents Attack!" episode of NPR's This…

NASA launches code.nasa.gov to share and collaborate further with the open source community

Following the release of its Open Government Plan and the Open Source Summit last year, NASA has now launched code.nasa.gov to "continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source…

Open*Life: 2011 in review

A second great year on opensource.com has proven even more that openness can improve just about anything. No matter what you're interested in, we've had a story for you. A few…

Open*Law: 2011 in review

As we wrote in last year's year-in-review, patents are a big focus at the intersection of open source and law. This year was no different--2011 saw Microsoft Corp. v. i4i…

Apache Software Foundation announces release plans and IP concerns for OpenOffice.org

Yesterday The Apache Software Foundation Blog posted "Open Letter to the Open Document Format Ecosystem" regarding the current state and future of OpenOffice.org, an open…

Send an open source e-card

Editor's note: The e-card feature was removed during an upgrade to Drupal 7. Maybe you worked on an open source project with someone who was extra helpful this year, and you…

Authored Comments

suehle

29 Nov 2011

Our summer reading list: Wizards, generals, startups, and copies

Got any good suggestions for one?

suehle

10 Nov 2011

The DRM graveyard: A brief history of digital rights management in music

Some of those would make good additions. I was trying to keep it manageable, though, and about DRM, not piracy. DeCSS was more about video, as of course is VCRs, all of which is interesting but tangential to the specific story of music and DRM. FWIW, I'm thinking of doing a separate timeline about video issues.