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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
When a genre of software is estimated to account for 15 percent of the total revenue generated by a given sector of the IT industry and that total is $A3.5 billion, then it is time to sit up and take notice.
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
Is Mr Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, slowly warming towards KDE? Or is the man merely trying to keep the KDE folk onside, after a whole host of "technical writers" have attacked the new release of that desktop environment?
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Saturday, 12 July 2008 |
Catching them young is a popular slogan and one
that yields dividends too, no matter whether one applies it to the
adoption of software or the learning of a language. And with a small
window seemingly open for Australia's FOSS community to push for the
use of free and open source software in schools, the question arises
- how does one go about making the first inroads?
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
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I've encountered a guy who wants to define what a Linux review should comprise. His qualifications to offer such a definition are perfect - he has never written a review himself but he has read plenty of them.
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
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The fact that organising Australia's national Linux conference is fully a year's work has been brought home with the announcement by the organisers of LCA 2009, or linux.conf.au as it is better known, that ideas for papers can be submitted.
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
A group of free and open source advocates in Australia has made a timely move to try and increase the use of FOSS in the nation's secondary schools.
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
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A couple of weeks back, a small New Zealand-based company, OnlineGroups.Net, released the source code for its online collaboration platform, GroupServer. When a big company releases source code for anything, it's often termed a risky move. For a small company, the risks are more or less the same.
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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Sometime back, I had a couple of encounters with OpenSUSE, the so-called community distribution which was started by Novell in 2005. Neither of them was exactly salutary. For example, in October last year, version 10.3 was released and my efforts to see what it was all about were frustrated to a large extent by the downloads themselves.
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
This column doesn't often step beyond its boundaries and offer a take on things outside the free and open source software arena. More than nine-tenths of what comes up for discussion here has, at least, a tangential connection with some aspect of FOSS. So why am I writing about William Gates III?
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
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Organic open source. Non-organic open source. Genetically modified free software. None of these are phrases that are in common usage but exploring what they mean is an interesting exercise.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
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For many years now, Linux has been a remarkable success story at the server level. However, at the desktop level, the tale is patchy - there are some success stories but for the most part one factor or another holds back the operating system from repeating its feats.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
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If they have no bread let them eat cake. We've all heard that famous line, which is attributed to Marie Antoinette, though the original quote came from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions.
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
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Rarely does one find the proprietor of a company that is closely connected to any kind of software getting on mailing lists to try to correct public perceptions of his product. In that respect, Mark Shuttleworth stands apart from all his peers.
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