It is difficult to find a better case of bad timing than Novell's announcement this week that it would be implementing support for Microsoft's OpenXML…
Monday, 04 December 2006 04:21

Ubuntu begins its transformation

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Next April, the Ubuntu Foundation will complete three years and six releases of its GNU/Linux distribution. It will also be the point at which the…
Friday, 01 December 2006 05:24

FOSS keeps us connected

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Visbility is everything these days. Even if you're not really doing much, you can easily give the impression of running the show.
Tuesday, 28 November 2006 03:35

RMS: No plain sailing for Novell

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The Novell-Microsoft deal is set to come up against hurdles next year with the head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard M. Stallman, confirming that…
Monday, 27 November 2006 03:11

Warning, poachers on the loose

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Is it right for free and open source projects to capitalise on the dissatisfaction created by the Microsoft-Novell deal and try to attract developers who…
Saturday, 25 November 2006 04:33

Perens urges Novell to recant deal

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Bruce Perens is a staunch supporter of the FOSS movement. One-time leader of the Debian GNU/Linux Project and the primary author of the open source…
Friday, 24 November 2006 04:14

The wizardry of Woz

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In the midst of all the noise generated by patent trolls, I can't help but think that the  tech industry would be a much better…
Wednesday, 22 November 2006 07:33

Good karma for Red Hat

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There was a time some years ago when Red Hat used to be contemptuously referred to as "the Microsoft of the Linux industry." How the…
Sunday, 19 November 2006 13:10

Microsoft deal will hurt Novell

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If anything can raise the hackles of the free and open source software community it is the spectre of a big proprietary software company trying…
Tuesday, 26 September 2006 11:36

Torvalds: Give me GPLv2

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If there were any doubts over Linus Torvalds' position on the forthcoming third version of the General Public License (GPLv3), the creator of the Linux…

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