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Ubuntu gets set to mark fifth birthday
by Sam Varghese   
Monday, 28 September 2009
The new kid on the GNU/Linux block is getting long in the tooth. In about three weeks, Ubuntu will be five years old.
 
Geek feminist jumps the gun on Shuttleworth speech
by Sam Varghese   
Friday, 25 September 2009
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.
 
French court hands GPL victory
by Sam Varghese   
Friday, 25 September 2009
It's the reason why Microsoft's Steve Ballmer calls Linux viral. But French courts obviously think it has merit because the GNU General Public Licence has been upheld in a court of appeals in France.
 
RMS comes under attack again
by Sam Varghese   
Thursday, 24 September 2009
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.
 
Novell wants Linux to be a mainstream O-S
by Sam Varghese   
Thursday, 24 September 2009
The Linux Foundation's 600-strong LinuxCon conference in Portland, Oregon, is just getting over and some of the talk emanating from that direction has been interesting, to put it mildly.
 
Linux is bloated, says Torvalds
by Sam Varghese   
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
One doesn't normally associate negative statements about Linux (the kernel) with its creator, the famous Finn Linus Benedict Torvalds.
 
CodePlex Foundation will help spread use of Mono
by Sam Varghese   
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
The appointment of Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza to the board of Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation has been done for one reason - the Foundation will serve as a handy vehicle to increase the use of Mono.
 
How one Melburnian spent Software Freedom Day
by Sam Varghese   
Monday, 21 September 2009
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.
 
Miguel snuggles closer to Microsoft
by Sam Varghese   
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
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.
 
Will FSF's summit on women in FOSS achieve anything?
by Sam Varghese   
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
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.
 
Microsoft launches open source foundation - and it isn't April 1
by Sam Varghese   
Friday, 11 September 2009
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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