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Category Archives: News
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Open Source Oracle gives open source a patent pass Computer Business Review Oracle has vowed not to assert its patents against open source projects such as the Linux operating system kernel and the MySQL and PosgreSQL databases by entering into … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Open Source Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So ComputerworldUK / Glyn Moody This confirms what many of us have been warning about for some time: that Microsoft’s new-found eagerness to “engage” with open source has nothing to do with … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 24, 2009
Open Source Red Hat Revenues Up 18 Percent in Q3 eWeek / Darryl K. Taft Red Hat reported financial results for its fiscal year 2010 third quarter, showing revenues up 18 percent. For its third quarter ended November 30, 2009, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, December 22, 2009
Open Source A Concise Introduction to Free and Open Source Software Consortiuminfo.org Consortium Standards Journal — August – September 2009 / Andrew Updegrove Abstract: In the early days of information technology (IT), computers were delivered with operating systems and basic … Continue reading
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Daily Links for Sunday, December 20, 2009
Open Source WordPress 2.9, Now with Built-in Image Editor and Delete Undo Softpedia / Lucian Parfeni The latest version of the world most popular self-hosted blogging platform, WordPress 2.9, is now out and available for everyone to download and install. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Standards Netherlands helps Denmark with open IT The Industry Standard The Dutch government has provided Denmark with information regarding the Dutch national plan Heemskerk for open government IT. In Denmark, there is heated debate about the approach for open IT … Continue reading
Daily Links for Saturday, December 12, 2009
Open Source Linux Foundation Announces “Get One, Give One” Holiday Membership Program The Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that for every new individual member who joins the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, December 11, 2009
Cloud IBM: LotusLive paying subscribers go from 0 to 18 million in a year ZDNet / Larry Dignan That LotusLive tally at the beginning of the year was nil so the growth is stunning. I double checked with IBM to … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Politics / Government Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government With this notice, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President, requests input from the community regarding … Continue reading
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Tagged Chrome, Google, Linux, Mozilla, Thunderbird
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Daily Links for Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Macintosh Official Google Mac Blog: Google Chrome for Mac goes beta! Official Google Mac Blog 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code and 29 developer builds later, we’re excited to finally release Google Chrome for Mac in beta. We took a hefty … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, December 7, 1009
Software Microsoft to randomly generate EU browser ballot list Ars Technica / Emil Protalinski The previous method had them listed in alphabetical order, putting Apple’s Safari first. Complaints from Opera, Google, and Mozilla resulted in the change, and also pushed … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, December 4, 2009
Open Source 10 Linux features Windows should have by default ZDNet / Larry Dignan In my next two 10 Things articles, I am going to take pieces of each operating system and place them in the other. In this first … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Open Source An Open Source Tool for Every Task School Library Journal / Steve Hargadon Following are some of the most popular OSS applications for schools. All are freely available, requiring no license fees, and can be loaded on an … Continue reading
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Tagged Google, Microsoft, OpenSim
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Daily Links for Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Open Source Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model The New York Times / Ashlee Vance The grass-roots nature of open source has led advocates to view the projects as a populist foil to proprietary software, where a company … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, November 30, 2009
Software Kindle 2 finally gets native PDF support, screen rotation Ars Technica Newly sold Kindles will come with an expanded battery, and those with the Kindle 2 will get a holiday gift as well: native PDF support and screen rotation. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, November 29, 2009
Cloud Roll Your Own Ubuntu Private Cloud InformationWeek / Serdar Yegulalp Conventional wisdom has it that if you want to make use of “the cloud,” you’ve got to use someone else’s service — Amazon’s EC2, Google’s clouds, and so on. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, November 23, 2009
Open Source Microsoft delays open sourcing Windows 7 tool Ars Technica / Emil Protalinski After committing to making the source code and binaries for the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool available under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, November 20, 2009
Open Source Good Karma: An In Depth Review Of Ubuntu 9.10 Ars Technica / Ryan Paul Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In this comprehensive review, Ars takes you under the surface for an in-depth look … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Open Source What’s New in openSUSE 11.2 Linux Magazine / Joe Brockmeier openSUSE 11.2 is finally out after 11 months of development. The openSUSE Project released openSUSE 11.2 with a bevy of updates and improvements over last year’s 11.1 release, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, November 12, 2009
Macintosh Microsoft exec: Mac OS inspired Windows 7 CNet / Chris Matyszczyk Simon Aldous, Microsoft’s partner group manager, says the company looked at the Mac’s graphical nature and ease of use and tried to create a ‘Mac look.’
Daily Links for Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Open Source Windows 7 on netbooks: Maybe it’s not a Linux killer ComputerWorld / Preston Gralla I’ve frequently written that Windows 7 will kill Linux on netbooks. But given that most Windows 7-equipped netbooks ship with the underwhelming Starter Edition, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Open Source Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL? ZDNet / Mary-Jo Foley Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, November 9, 2009
Open Source Ubuntu: the complete beginner’s guide Times Online / Jonathan Richards Ubuntu, if you’re not familiar with it, is one of many varieties of a broader, open-source OS called Linux. It looks and feels a lot like Windows (more … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, November 6, 2009
Macintosh Switchers Guide: Moving from Windows to the Mac Macworld / Harry McCracken Moving from a Windows PC to a Mac–at the office or at home–presents the same kinds of opportunities and challenges. It requires some up-front effort: Transferring your … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, November 4, 2009 – Virtual Worlds Edition
Virtual Worlds Feeding Edge Feeding Edge is a consulting company. Founded by epredator (Ian Hughes) metaverse evangelist, tribal leader and public speaker and developer with over 18 years experience in a single large corporation. Half of that time has been … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, November 3, 2009 – Red Hat Edition
Open Source Red Hat Rolls Out Virtualization Platform for Heterogeneous Servers and Clouds Reuters Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, November 2, 2009
Books Caught in the Middle: Publishing’s Other Customers Digital Book World / Don Linn The publishers’ author/customers I worry about are those who fall between these two groups. They are the people who write for a living and who bring … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, November 1, 2009
Software Microsoft to indirectly fund L.A.’s switch to Google Apps Seattle Post-Intelligencer / Nick Eaton Talk about irony. Of the $7.2 million the Los Angeles city government will be spending to switch its e-mail system to Google Apps, $1.5 million … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, October 29, 2009
Software Product Quality Novell / Jeff Jaffe It is useful to review our comprehensive approach to quality. Quality is not a single process. It is baked into everything we do: before and during development; after products are shipped in the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Open Source The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done? Ars Technica / Ryan Paul Although a growing number of smartphone makers are embracing Linux and open source software, the dream of a fully open phone remains … Continue reading
