items tagged with FOSS
GPL: why can't a lawyer understand it?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-06-09 12:33:55
Nearly a year after the Free Software Foundation released an updated version of the General Public License - the GPLv3 - there appears to be a great deal of confusion about what the license actually means, if one goes by two recent publications.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-06-09 12:33:55
Nearly a year after the Free Software Foundation released an updated version of the General Public License - the GPLv3 - there appears to be a great deal of confusion about what the license actually means, if one goes by two recent publications.
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Walter Bender hopes all will be sweet… with Sugar
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-19 01:59:36
The man who once was the president of OLPC, the initiative to provide “one laptop per child” to some of the world’s poorest and digitally divided children, has joined Sugar Labs. Why? To do what Nicholas Negroponte won’t – providing open source opportunities for learning, instead of being just another laptop seller.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-19 01:59:36
The man who once was the president of OLPC, the initiative to provide “one laptop per child” to some of the world’s poorest and digitally divided children, has joined Sugar Labs. Why? To do what Nicholas Negroponte won’t – providing open source opportunities for learning, instead of being just another laptop seller.
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Open sore on Planet GNOME
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-04-28 12:15:01
There is an air of disquiet again on Planet GNOME - and once again the reason behind it is the way the site is administered.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-04-28 12:15:01
There is an air of disquiet again on Planet GNOME - and once again the reason behind it is the way the site is administered.
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Moving to Linux? No fear, help is at hand
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-04-07 12:01:19
To some people, the increasing number of Linux distributions serves as a disadvante when it comes to attracting new users. To Christopher Smart, it's a plus point - the way he puts it, if he had not been able to roll his own, he never would have achieved the level of understanding of Linux he has today.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-04-07 12:01:19
To some people, the increasing number of Linux distributions serves as a disadvante when it comes to attracting new users. To Christopher Smart, it's a plus point - the way he puts it, if he had not been able to roll his own, he never would have achieved the level of understanding of Linux he has today.
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Watch out Red Hat, there's someone following you
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-28 19:32:37
Red Hat has just released some remarkable results for the first US quarter. In a couple of years, it might find such achievements a mite harder to come by if the views of those who participated in a survey about open source recently are valid.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-28 19:32:37
Red Hat has just released some remarkable results for the first US quarter. In a couple of years, it might find such achievements a mite harder to come by if the views of those who participated in a survey about open source recently are valid.
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Has the emperor got any clothes?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-17 23:12:17
A little less than a week ago, GNOME co-founder and Microsoft admirer Miguel de Icaza called me a jihadist. I'm not exactly sure what he meant by that. When a man from Mexico uses words from the east one is unsure what he means to convey - but I thought it would be worth examining in detail the great developer's sayings.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-17 23:12:17
A little less than a week ago, GNOME co-founder and Microsoft admirer Miguel de Icaza called me a jihadist. I'm not exactly sure what he meant by that. When a man from Mexico uses words from the east one is unsure what he means to convey - but I thought it would be worth examining in detail the great developer's sayings.
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Why Slashdot owes Apple an apology
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-03 09:23:40
Does the fact that Apple has a well-developed operating system based on UNIX rile some people who claim to be FOSS boosters? I'd like to think it doesn't but last week I noticed something on the American technology news accumulator site Slashdot that really made me wonder.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-03 09:23:40
Does the fact that Apple has a well-developed operating system based on UNIX rile some people who claim to be FOSS boosters? I'd like to think it doesn't but last week I noticed something on the American technology news accumulator site Slashdot that really made me wonder.
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Intel releases graphics programming manuals
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-02-02 04:56:44
FOSS developers will be able to write drivers for the Intel 965 Express chipset family and Intel G35 Express chipset graphics controller following the company's decision to release specs under a Creative Commons Licence.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-02-02 04:56:44
FOSS developers will be able to write drivers for the Intel 965 Express chipset family and Intel G35 Express chipset graphics controller following the company's decision to release specs under a Creative Commons Licence.
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Hobart to host 2009 Linux conference
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-02-01 00:28:20
The next Australian national Linux conference will be held in Hobart, the first time the Tasmanian capital has been given the honour of playing host.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-02-01 00:28:20
The next Australian national Linux conference will be held in Hobart, the first time the Tasmanian capital has been given the honour of playing host.
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FOSS to electric cars: not such a big leap
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-31 21:12:55
Richard Keech was an early adopter of Linux on the desktop back in the 1990s. One could well say that he has a habit of looking at something and getting into it if he thinks it's going to be a future trend, one that could be useful and sensible.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-31 21:12:55
Richard Keech was an early adopter of Linux on the desktop back in the 1990s. One could well say that he has a habit of looking at something and getting into it if he thinks it's going to be a future trend, one that could be useful and sensible.
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A conversation with Martin Michlmayr
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-31 03:31:22
Martin Michlmayr is one of those highly intelligent people who tend to make us ordinary humans feel like some lower form of life.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-31 03:31:22
Martin Michlmayr is one of those highly intelligent people who tend to make us ordinary humans feel like some lower form of life.
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Money, money, money... and FOSS
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-31 00:30:49
Open source software is developed for a variety of reasons, with the starting point often being the need to fill a need which the creator of a package faces. It's known as scratching your own itch.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-31 00:30:49
Open source software is developed for a variety of reasons, with the starting point often being the need to fill a need which the creator of a package faces. It's known as scratching your own itch.
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linux.conf.au: The Beeb and the penguin
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-26 17:10:25
The BBC and Linux - when you see the two words juxtaposed together, one tends to be surprised. Simply because all the recent coverage of the Beeb has been about the iPlayer fiasco - how the biggest public broadcaster came out with a player that could cater to just one platform.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-26 17:10:25
The BBC and Linux - when you see the two words juxtaposed together, one tends to be surprised. Simply because all the recent coverage of the Beeb has been about the iPlayer fiasco - how the biggest public broadcaster came out with a player that could cater to just one platform.
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The rise of the FOSS spinmeister
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-24 08:00:00
In August 2003, a little more than three months after the SCO Group had filed a lawsuit against IBM, seeking damages for alleged breach of contract, I had an email exchange with Blake Stowell, who was then the public relations manager of the former company.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-24 08:00:00
In August 2003, a little more than three months after the SCO Group had filed a lawsuit against IBM, seeking damages for alleged breach of contract, I had an email exchange with Blake Stowell, who was then the public relations manager of the former company.
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No FOSS please, we’re Microsoft: checking out the .NET source code license
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-21 03:53:16
Since early this decade, Microsoft has been promoting their software framework, the .NET platform and its associated libraries. Now up to incarnation v3.5, Windows developers worldwide have rejoiced at the framework source code finally being made available. Yet, does this reflect any trend towards open source by the Redmond giant? How generous is the license and what does it mean?
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-21 03:53:16
Since early this decade, Microsoft has been promoting their software framework, the .NET platform and its associated libraries. Now up to incarnation v3.5, Windows developers worldwide have rejoiced at the framework source code finally being made available. Yet, does this reflect any trend towards open source by the Redmond giant? How generous is the license and what does it mean?
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OOXML: the propaganda war has begun
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-17 09:45:45
The first salvo in the document standard war of 2008 has been fired - and, predictably, it favours the Microsoft camp. A study by the Burton Group, a firm of consultants, has come down hard on the side of Microsoft Office Open XML.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-17 09:45:45
The first salvo in the document standard war of 2008 has been fired - and, predictably, it favours the Microsoft camp. A study by the Burton Group, a firm of consultants, has come down hard on the side of Microsoft Office Open XML.
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Open source brings a spam-free lunch
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-13 20:22:14
Spam is a plague on the Internet. It’s constant and unending. Some ISPs and free web mail providers offer anti-spam services but if you’re running your own mail server, accepting mail to your own domain, you have to work out your own solution. Can open source compete with the big boys? When it comes to spam, is there a free lunch?
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-13 20:22:14
Spam is a plague on the Internet. It’s constant and unending. Some ISPs and free web mail providers offer anti-spam services but if you’re running your own mail server, accepting mail to your own domain, you have to work out your own solution. Can open source compete with the big boys? When it comes to spam, is there a free lunch?
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linux.conf.au: What is Novell doing here?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-10 09:35:10
A GNU/Linux system does not normally load modules that are not released under an approved licence. So why should Australia’s national Linux conference take on board a sponsor who engages in practices that are at odds with the community?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-10 09:35:10
A GNU/Linux system does not normally load modules that are not released under an approved licence. So why should Australia’s national Linux conference take on board a sponsor who engages in practices that are at odds with the community?
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