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Thursday, 12 April 2007 |
A flamewar on a free or open source software mailing list isn't all that unusual. There are a lot of people with very fixed ideas on these lists and they are not averse to telling others so - in frank language.
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
The Debian GNU/Linux Project has a new leader. Sam Hocevar, a French developer, who has been with the project since 2000, was elected as leader for 2007-08 on Sunday.
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Wednesday, 04 April 2007 |
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A little over five months has gone by since the Microsoft-Novell deal was signed but some details still remain unknown.
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
In what many long-time observers of free and open source software consider a natural progression, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer is to join the board of the Linux Foundation.
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
The GPL version 3 will take a few months more to come into effect. A March deadline has slipped and it is now looking like it may take until the final quarter of 2007 before the licence is formally ushered in.
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Monday, 26 March 2007 |
The Debian GNU/Linux project has come to some kind of crossroads - due to many factors, some of them artificial - and the man who takes over leadership next month will have to make some crucial decisions on the future direction of the project.
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
Every year, Novell holds its annual tradeshow, which it calls Brainshare, in Salt Lake City, Utah. This year, the company has had a much smaller, but possibly more raucuous, companion, across the street.
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
A few weeks back Dell invited ideas from the world at large about what it should put on sale - in other words, what did the so-called "community" want?
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
A "sizeable number" of developers have jumped ship from Novell to Red Hat, according to Scott Crenshaw, the senior director for product management and marketing at Red Hat.
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Tuesday, 13 March 2007 |
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Fundamentalism is a frequent topic of conversation these days but it is discussed only in the context of religion. Overlooked is the fact that this attribute can exist among the operating system faithful as well - a breed I call the operating system taliban (hereafter referred to as the OST).
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Friday, 09 March 2007 |
In the battle to spread the use of GNU/Linux, it is often forgotten that education has to be the starting point. People need to be educated to the point where they come to demand decent behaviour from an operating system; companies need educated admins to keep GNU/Linux systems running.
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
Dell is down on its luck a bit and recently decided that it needed to look like a good citizen. So the company put out an invitation seeking ideas from the "community" on a new website called IdeaStorm which apes the model created by Digg.
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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
From time to time, it is not uncommon to encounter a confession on the net, a bleating essay that says "I can't run Linux, though I'd love to", and advances a host of assorted "reasons" for this act of commission.
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