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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
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On April 1 this year, I wrote a spoof headlined "Ballmer joins Linux Foundation board." Considering the statements that were reported last week as emanating from the executive director of the same foundation, Jim Zemlin, I wonder if my tale will still be considered a spoof after a few years.
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Monday, 13 August 2007 |
Nearly 54 months ago, when the SCO Group launched its legal action against IBM, there were a number of cheerleaders - both SCO personnel and outsiders - who contributed a great deal to the debate.
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Sunday, 12 August 2007 |
The SCO Group may face financial ruin after a ruling in the US that it does not own the IP rights to UNIX. Novell has been ruled to own the IP.
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
Over the past year and a bit, at least two Linux distributions which were based on Debian GNU/Linux have stated that they will be switching their base to Ubuntu. Now it appears that one distribution has backtracked.
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Thursday, 02 August 2007 |
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Microsoft has begun to talk about open source again. Sure, atheists sometimes do talk about God.
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Monday, 30 July 2007 |
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The OpenBSD project is likely to be able to take on new challenges once its sister organisation, the OpenBSD Foundation, set up last week, gets up to speed.
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
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In early 1996, Theo de Raadt, now well known as the head of the OpenBSD project, started to get an inkling that he was being somewhat marginalised within the NetBSD project of which he was then an integral part.
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007 |
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Ten days into July, Canonical, the company which is best known for the Ubuntu Linux distribution, released the source code for one component of Launchpad - a system that serves as a single repository for revision control.
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
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It's tax time in Australia. Three weeks into the new financial year, now is about the time when people have all their documentation ready to give the government its yearly pound of flesh.
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
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The last time I looked at Slackware was nearly seven years ago; version 7.1 was thrown my way by a magazine and I was asked for a review. My usage of the distribution had ended early in 2000 when I moved to Debian after using Slackware 4.0 and then 7.0 for about a year.
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Monday, 16 July 2007 |
The third revision of the General Public Licence has been out for just short of three weeks but plenty of people are already questioning why take-up has been so slow.
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
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I live in the state of Victoria in Australia. On this day, the 7th day of the 7th month in the year of our Lord 2007, I hereby declare that I am not bound by the traffic laws of Victoria and that I can drive my car at any speed I choose.
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
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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.
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