items tagged with FOSS
Open source FUD is alive and kicking
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-02 20:48:06
Ten, or even five years ago, it was not uncommon to see articles surface periodically, spouting gross untruths about free and open source software.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-02 20:48:06
Ten, or even five years ago, it was not uncommon to see articles surface periodically, spouting gross untruths about free and open source software.
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ESR pressure made feminists host detractor's code
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-01 11:01:32
Pressure from open source luminary Eric S. Raymond led to geek feminists hosting code created by one of their detractors, which otherwise would have disappeared for good, a post on Raymond's blog reveals.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-01 11:01:32
Pressure from open source luminary Eric S. Raymond led to geek feminists hosting code created by one of their detractors, which otherwise would have disappeared for good, a post on Raymond's blog reveals.
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When hackers get the blues
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-29 19:10:20
Hacking is often a lonely profession: the wee hours are generally the most productive and communicating with an inanimate object often results in people being unable to interact in a regular manner with their human counterparts.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-29 19:10:20
Hacking is often a lonely profession: the wee hours are generally the most productive and communicating with an inanimate object often results in people being unable to interact in a regular manner with their human counterparts.
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Ubuntu 9.10: confidence riding high at Canonical
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-26 21:29:00
There is a growing confidence evident in the Canonical camp as the countdown begins to October 29, the date for the official release of Ubuntu 9.10.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-26 21:29:00
There is a growing confidence evident in the Canonical camp as the countdown begins to October 29, the date for the official release of Ubuntu 9.10.
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Stallman, others object to Oracle's MySQL ownership
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-22 19:08:00
Two organisations, along with Free Software Foundation head Richard M. Stallman, have written to the European Commission, asking that Oracle not be allowed to acquire MySQL as part of its larger acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-22 19:08:00
Two organisations, along with Free Software Foundation head Richard M. Stallman, have written to the European Commission, asking that Oracle not be allowed to acquire MySQL as part of its larger acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
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Open database alliance reaches takeoff stage
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-21 20:32:42
MySQL co-founder Ulf Michael Widenius's dream of having a fully-fledged Open Database Alliance is slowly reaching fruition with the announcement that the project, begun in May this year, has reached its second stage.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-21 20:32:42
MySQL co-founder Ulf Michael Widenius's dream of having a fully-fledged Open Database Alliance is slowly reaching fruition with the announcement that the project, begun in May this year, has reached its second stage.
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Geek feminists score a point over detractor
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-20 21:52:43
Perl developer Kirrily Robert, who runs the Geek Feminism blog, has managed to score a couple of points over a male developer who has been posting nasty comments about women in FOSS to various online forums.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-20 21:52:43
Perl developer Kirrily Robert, who runs the Geek Feminism blog, has managed to score a couple of points over a male developer who has been posting nasty comments about women in FOSS to various online forums.
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Red Hat boot camp for FOSS teachers
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-07 20:12:54
The world's biggest free and open source software company will hold a boot camp in Singapore next month for those who teach courses in open source software at institutes of higher learning.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-07 20:12:54
The world's biggest free and open source software company will hold a boot camp in Singapore next month for those who teach courses in open source software at institutes of higher learning.
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Why Matt Zimmerman should quit Canonical
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-01 20:11:46
The chief technology officer of Canonical, Matt Zimmerman, has put himself in an untenable position after he took a public stance that a remark made by his boss in a keynote was sexist.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-01 20:11:46
The chief technology officer of Canonical, Matt Zimmerman, has put himself in an untenable position after he took a public stance that a remark made by his boss in a keynote was sexist.
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Shuttleworth employee calls boss's remark sexist
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-29 21:23:22
The chief technology officer of Canonical, the company founded by open source entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth, has come right out and termed a remark made by his boss at the recent LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon, sexist.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-29 21:23:22
The chief technology officer of Canonical, the company founded by open source entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth, has come right out and termed a remark made by his boss at the recent LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon, sexist.
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Geek feminist jumps the gun on Shuttleworth speech
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-24 20:56:33
Open source consultant Kirrily Robert, who runs a blog called Geek Feminism, has taken Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth to task over words he allegedly used in a talk given at a conference.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-24 20:56:33
Open source consultant Kirrily Robert, who runs a blog called Geek Feminism, has taken Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth to task over words he allegedly used in a talk given at a conference.
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RMS comes under attack again
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-23 22:47:21
It appears to be open season for launching attacks on the head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallman, the man who is in large measure responsible for the status that free and open source software enjoys today.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-23 22:47:21
It appears to be open season for launching attacks on the head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallman, the man who is in large measure responsible for the status that free and open source software enjoys today.
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How one Melburnian spent Software Freedom Day
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-20 20:16:26
For most people in Melbourne, Saturday, September 19, was just another day for trying to recover from the excesses of the previous night, knocking back from work, lazing, and reading the newspapers on the web.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-20 20:16:26
For most people in Melbourne, Saturday, September 19, was just another day for trying to recover from the excesses of the previous night, knocking back from work, lazing, and reading the newspapers on the web.
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Miguel snuggles closer to Microsoft
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-15 23:20:30
Over the past week, a couple of events have served to highlight the extent to which Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza is helping Microsoft to implement its strategy of curbing the growth of free and open source software.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-15 23:20:30
Over the past week, a couple of events have served to highlight the extent to which Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza is helping Microsoft to implement its strategy of curbing the growth of free and open source software.
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Will FSF's summit on women in FOSS achieve anything?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-14 22:06:29
What a movement achieves depends greatly on the motivations behind it; when one is pushed to do something, then much less is achieved than if the movement arises spontaneously.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-14 22:06:29
What a movement achieves depends greatly on the motivations behind it; when one is pushed to do something, then much less is achieved than if the movement arises spontaneously.
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Microsoft launches open source foundation - and it isn't April 1
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-10 21:42:27
Microsoft is continuing to try and keep the free software and open source world guessing by announcing that it has set up an open source foundation to enable "the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities."
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-10 21:42:27
Microsoft is continuing to try and keep the free software and open source world guessing by announcing that it has set up an open source foundation to enable "the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities."
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Why Microsoft is Australia's default buy
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-07 21:40:13
A veteran of Australia's open source industry says that unless government agencies make a fundamental decision to change technologies and then plan their move, the status quo will remain.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-07 21:40:13
A veteran of Australia's open source industry says that unless government agencies make a fundamental decision to change technologies and then plan their move, the status quo will remain.
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Which licence is best: EPL, GPL or BSD?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-02 21:43:54
Debates about the pros and cons of various licences available to free and open source software developers often end up generating more heat than light.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-02 21:43:54
Debates about the pros and cons of various licences available to free and open source software developers often end up generating more heat than light.
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Apache project server compromised
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-28 20:08:09
A server at the Apache project has been compromised, resulting in some hours of downtime, the project has announced.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-28 20:08:09
A server at the Apache project has been compromised, resulting in some hours of downtime, the project has announced.
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Mini-summit on women in free software
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-24 20:19:53
The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on September 19 on the participation of women in free software, to discuss means whereby involvement can be increased.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-24 20:19:53
The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on September 19 on the participation of women in free software, to discuss means whereby involvement can be increased.
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