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Friday, 23 October 2009 |
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Two organisations, along with Free Software Foundation head Richard M. Stallman, have written to the European Commission, asking that Oracle not be allowed to acquire MySQL as part of its larger acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 |
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MySQL co-founder Ulf Michael Widenius's dream of having a fully-fledged Open Database Alliance is slowly reaching fruition with the announcement that the project, begun in May this year, has reached its second stage.
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 |
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IBM and Ubuntu have set themselves up squarely inn Microsoft's cross-hairs. A day before the launch of Windows 7 in the US, Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu, and Big Blue have announced a deal to sell cloud- and Linux-based desktop packages in the US.
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 |
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Perl developer Kirrily Robert, who runs the Geek Feminism blog, has managed to score a couple of points over a male developer who has been posting nasty comments about women in FOSS to various online forums.
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 |
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It's doubtful whether Linus Torvalds has ever uttered an overtly political line in public ever since he became a public figure in 1991.
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009 |
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When Barack Obama was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, anyone with a modicum of intelligence was able to divine why he had been chosen for the honour.
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Monday, 19 October 2009 |
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Apple's iPhone is a joy to behold, possesses a slick and quick interface and can be manipulated with just the tips of your digits even while driving.
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Saturday, 17 October 2009 |
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If one were to pose the question why don't more people use GNU/Linux, one would probably get as many answers as people who are asked the question.
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Friday, 16 October 2009 |
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Samba and Mono differ in the ways the two projects have chosen to deal with software patents in the implementation, according to renowned Samba developer Jeremy Allison.
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 |
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The Linux Foundation will offer discounts from HP, Dell and Lenovo plus a @linux.com email address in a bid to lure individuals to become members.
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 |
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A team of students at Cornell University has won a competition for autonomous underwater vehicles, using a robotic submarine running Debian GNU/Linux.
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Friday, 09 October 2009 |
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Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza has dismissed Microsoft's bid to sell patents that could be used to attack Linux, saying it was not a problem as the patents were now in good hands.
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Friday, 09 October 2009 |
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The Debian Project will, for the first time, release a stable version of its distribution running on a FreeBSD kernel when the next version, Squeeze, is released sometime next year.
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