Open Sauce
The elusive, royalty-free patent licence for Mono
by Sam Varghese   
Monday, 25 May 2009
How difficult or easy is it to obtain one of the much-touted "royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory" licences for Microsoft patents that are part of a technology like Mono?
 
Desktop Linux: it ain't a better Windows
by Sam Varghese   
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
One debate which the FOSS community will never give up on is the one about GNU/Linux on the desktop. No matter that the two big companies which were once interested in putting GNU/Linux on the desktop have now officially given up.
 
Queensland firm comes up with multisite CMS
by Sam Varghese   
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
A Queensland company, ZacWare, has released an application that can transform the popular open source content management system Joomla! into a multisite CMS.
 
GNU/Linux: rubbery figures don't help the cause
by Sam Varghese   
Thursday, 14 May 2009
Over the last 10 days there has been a spate of reports all based on some surprising statistics titled "Operating System Market Share" put out by a company named Net Applications.
 
Brits to test life without Windows
by Sam Varghese   
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Two British IT workers are planning to spend a month without Windows, using GNU/Linux instead in a project designed to see whether "the Linux operating system is capable of delivering the function and style of delivery that an established Windows user can adapt to easily."

 
Does GNU/Linux need cult figures like Jobs?
by Sam Varghese   
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Does GNU/Linux need a cult figure like Steve Jobs to spread the word and convert the doubters? And does FOSS lend itself to the development of such egos, where technical merit alone does not count?
 
XP mode? You may need a new PC
by Sam Varghese   
Saturday, 09 May 2009
It's been my experience that when Microsoft announces something, one always has to read the fine print. That hasn't changed in the 20 years since I bought my first PC.

 
Taking Joomla! to new heights
by Sam Varghese   
Friday, 08 May 2009
For someone who heads a project that develops the most widely used open source content management system, Andrew Eddie tends to be somewhat low-key. One could even call him bashful.
 
Netbook gains: win or loss for Microsoft?
by Sam Varghese   
Thursday, 07 May 2009
Much is being made of the gains that Microsoft has apparently made in the netbook market, with manufacturers now finding that sales of the little gadgets with Linux on them are slowing to a trickle.
 
GNOME Foundation wants your money
by Sam Varghese   
Monday, 04 May 2009
The global economic crisis has hit the GNOME Foundation to the extent that it is now seeking public money to ensure that it can keep an executive director, who was recruited last year, on its rolls.
 
Steve McIntyre re-elected Debian leader
by Sam Varghese   
Monday, 13 April 2009
British developer Steve McIntyre has been re-elected leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project (DPL) for 2009-10.
 
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