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OOXML: one small step for Microsoft
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Friday, 06 July 2007
A couple of days before the United States of America observed its independence day, the state of Massachusetts declared that it had suddenly discovered that Microsoft Office Open XML document format met the definition of an open standard.
 
Joomla!: there's more gas in this story
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Thursday, 05 July 2007
Yesterday (July 5) I ran an article in this space with the title which is retained above. This article consisted of a reaction to the piece Joomla! - the licence stays the same from the project co-founder Brian Teeman who is now no longer with Joomla!.

 
Joomla! - the licence stays the same
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007
When the Joomla! project - one of the most widely used open source content management systems - announced on June 15 that that it would be "committing to compliance with the GPL" users were left wondering at the implications.

 
In praise of the GPLv3
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Sunday, 01 July 2007
These days, Richard Matthew Stallman, the enigmatic founder of the Free Software Foundation, isn't exactly flavour of the month.

 
Vista: They took five years for this?
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Friday, 22 June 2007
Linux users can, at times, be the worst kind of ingrates, whining and complaining about what they perceive as missing features in a free operating system.

 
Nine days left for patent deals
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007
There are exactly nine days left for Microsoft to get other Linux companies to sign up for patent cross-licensing deals.

 
Venezuela shows the way
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Monday, 18 June 2007
Free and open source software is often seen as a political tool. While many developers try to avoid the political aspects and concentrate on the code, events periodically tend to remind us that FOSS is a powerful tool in the fight for people's minds.

 
Linspire deal: What will ESR and Shuttleworth do now?
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Friday, 15 June 2007
A few months back, the self-styled open source advocate Eric S. Raymond made a grand announcement about switching Linux distributions and moving from Fedora to Ubuntu.

 
Apple is no angel
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Thursday, 14 June 2007
Occasionally, I leave the environs of free and open source software and venture out to comment on proprietary software. Today I thought Steve Jobs and Apple needed a bit of attention.

 
Memo to Xandros CEO: you're better off selling potatoes
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Monday, 11 June 2007
A few days ago, I became aware of a fact I'd never known before: the chief executive officer of Xandros Corporation is named Andreas Typaldos.

 
Dell's next step - SUSE Linux desktops?
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Friday, 08 June 2007
Why would the world's second-ranked PC seller make an effort to sell an operating system that it's never sold before on custom hardware - and do it in a half-hearted manner? Why would it do this at a time when it's desperately trying to regain its number 1 ranking?

 
A cry from Xandros: please, take note of us
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007
The deal Xandros Corporation signed with Microsoft on June 4 is an indicator of several things.

 
Fedora 7.0: moving to outpace Sun
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Monday, 04 June 2007
With its release of Fedora 7.0 last week, Red Hat has signalled that it is acutely aware of the threat that Sun could pose to its market share in the years ahead.

 
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