December 13, 2011 “American playwright Tony Kushner has donated $100,000 in prize money to the university whose board originally blocked a decision to award him an honorary degree earlier this year. In May, John Jay College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), was initially prevented from honouring Kushner following criticism from one of the university’s...
Today at LUG 2014, Ken Claffey from Xyratex/Seagate announced that the company is donating the Lustre.org domain back the user community. As you may recall Xyratex acquired the Lustre trademark and other assets from Oracle last year. Oracle owned the assets as a result of acquiring Sun Microsystems in 2010, but the company was not interested in the HPC market. From...