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Why Matt Zimmerman should quit Canonical
Friday, 02 October 2009
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.

 
Pictures that speak a thousand words
Thursday, 01 October 2009
A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words. That's one of the truisms in journalism and it has never been misproved.
 
Microsoft malware tool only for legit Windows
Thursday, 01 October 2009
Eleven years ago, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told an audience that he didn't mind people stealing software as long as they stole his company's software.
 
Shuttleworth employee calls boss's remark sexist
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
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.
 
Windows 7 YouTube promo falls flat
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Many years ago, the late Dr Laurence J. Peter set out a principle under his own name; one of its corollaries was that the final professional move by a person or a company was from one of competence to one of incompetence.
 
Ubuntu gets set to mark fifth birthday
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
 
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