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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
Microsoft survey on “perceptions of interoperability”
Microsoft appears to be running a survey on “perceptions of interoperability.” I’ll let you decide for yourself whether this is phrased in a completely neutral and objective manner, but you might want to weigh in if you feel you want … 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
Posted in News, Open Source, Software, Standards, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Google, Microsoft, OpenSim
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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 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
Operating systems: upgrade or reinstall? guilt or pleasure?
Through the years I’ve run many versions of Microsoft Windows. For the last two and one-half years I’ve had Apple Macs, so I’ve used both OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. I don’t even know how many different desktop Linux … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, Open Source, Software
Tagged Apple, Fedora, Linux, Microsoft, Ubuntu
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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 Monday, October 26, 2009 – Fun (?) with Windows 7 Edition
Software Windows 7 Upgrade Woes Mount: Endless Reboots and Product Key Problems PC World / Jacqueline Emigh Call it the legacy of Microsoft’s Vista operating system. PC users upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 have run into a variety … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, October 21, 2009 – Early Edition
Open Source MySQL founder says Oracle should let go of MySQL Ars Technica / Ryan Paul Monty Widenius, one of the original founders of MySQL, has called for Oracle to sell off the open source database so that its pending … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, October 19, 2009
Open Source Apache Tuscany Java SCA 1.5.1 Released The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the 1.5.1 release of the Java SCA project. Apache Tuscany provides a runtime environment based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA). SCA is a … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, September 30, 2009 – Morning Edition
Open Source Former MySQL CEO Joins Benchmark Capital – Digits – WSJ Wall Street Journal Online / Pui-Wing Tam Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is joining venture-capital firm Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur in residence, says Benchmark partner Kevin Harvey. … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apple, Linux, Microsoft, ODF, Second Life, Twitter
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Daily Links for Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Office Web Apps: The beginning of the end for Microsoft? InfoWorld / Randall C. Kennedy So when Microsoft makes noise about embracing the cloud, then delivers something designed to preserve the status quo, we feel compelled to call them on … Continue reading
Links for Wednesday, September 9, 2009 – “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” Edition
Open Source Microsoft trains Best Buy “Linux assassins” ZDNet / Adrian Kingsley-Hughes As I worked my way through the screenshots I was disturbed by the increasing amounts of FUD that was being used under the guise of “information” to discredit … Continue reading
Links for Wednesday, September 9, 2009 – OIN Edition
Open Source Microsoft rivals to purchase 22 patents to defend Linux ComputerWorld / Elizabeth Montalbano A group of Linux proponents will purchase patents formerly held by Microsoft in an effort to defend distributors of the open-source OS against the ongoing … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, September 8, 2009 – Morning Edition
Open Source Microsoft giving Best Buy anti-Linux training electronista Slides look official, however uncomfortable I am with the anonymous source. Microsoft has been sending Best Buy retail staff “training” material that deliberately attacks and in some cases distorts Linux, according … Continue reading
Daily News for August 14 – Morning Edition
Linux and Netbooks Dell: Linux v Windows netbook returns a ‘non-issue’ The Register/Gavin Clark “Dell has delivered a dose of reality for both Microsoft and the Linux community on the subject of netbooks. Speaking at OpenSource World, a Dell executive … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 12, 2009
Windows and Security How to save the Internet from Windows ComputerWorld “After last week’s near-collapse of the social networks, such as Twitter, due to a Windows-based, botnet DDoS attack, I made a modest proposal: Throw Windows off the Internet. Here’s … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 6, 2009
OpenDocument Format Microsoft offers Office 2010 file format ‘ballot’ to stop EU antitrust probe “”Beginning with the release of Office [2010], end users that purchase Microsoft’s Primary PC Productivity Applications in the EEA [European Economic Area] in both the OEM … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 5, 2009
Linux IBM Linux Virtualization and Cloud Seminar – August 11, San Francisco “Linux, virtualization and cloud computing are the three most important trends in IT today. They’re also interlinked. Attend our half-day seminar, IBM Linux Virtualization and Cloud Seminar, and … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 1, 2009
Some cheap PCs aren’t eligible for free Win 7 upgrade “Many potential buyers of laptops priced under $300 in the U.S. had an unpleasant surprise over the weekend: The machines would not be eligible for a free upgrade to Microsoft’s … Continue reading
LinuxWorld 2008 Prediction #5: SMB
Although I’ve previously published the slides for the talk I gave at LinuxWorld 2008 in San Francisco, I thought it might be useful to add some additional comments in the blog about each of the eight predictions I made. This … Continue reading
Neelie Kroes on Open Standards
Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition Policy, gave a major speech this morning on open standards and competition. I encourage you to read it, “Being open about standards,” in its entirety. There is much that is quotable in her talk … Continue reading
On to Ubuntu Linux 8.04
Today I got around to installing Ubuntu Linux 8.04 on my Thinkpad T60p. I haven’t done too too much with it, but let me describe how I got this far. For over a month I’ve had the laptop set up … Continue reading
Life after Windows, One Month and Four Days
Ok, blog titles like this will not be sustainable, though I’ll mark the passage of time somehow. I haven’t used Microsoft Windows in any way since March 11, though it’s interesting to watch various people fight to save Windows XP. … Continue reading
Daily Links 04/08/2008
Reality Check | Ephraim Schwartz | InfoWorld | Swallowing Yahoo may make Microsoft want to take a nap tags: OB, Microsoft, Yahoo “The times have changed and if Microsoft is to succeed it needs to become innovative and nimble. Of … Continue reading
Searching for document formats
I just read the article in InformationWeek called “Microsoft’s Search Share Continues To Decline”. I use Google search almost exclusively but occasionally I poke around on the other engines to see if they turn up anything interesting. While Microsoft did … Continue reading
Critical questions for national bodies considering OOXML/DIS 29500
As we move into the last 10 days before the final chance for national standards bodies to change their JTC1 ballot on Microsoft’s OOXML specification expires, there are key questions that the bodies and the people who participate in them … Continue reading
