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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.
 
Miguel snuggles closer to Microsoft
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Over the past week, a couple of events have served to highlight the extent to which Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza is helping Microsoft to implement its strategy of curbing the growth of free and open source software.
 
Will FSF's summit on women in FOSS achieve anything?
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
What a movement achieves depends greatly on the motivations behind it; when one is pushed to do something, then much less is achieved than if the movement arises spontaneously.
 
Microsoft launches open source foundation - and it isn't April 1
Friday, 11 September 2009
Microsoft is continuing to try and keep the free software and open source world guessing by announcing that it has set up an open source foundation to enable "the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities."
 
Why Microsoft is Australia's default buy
Tuesday, 08 September 2009
A veteran of Australia's open source industry says that unless government agencies make a fundamental decision to change technologies and then plan their move, the status quo will remain.
 
Which licence is best: EPL, GPL or BSD?
Thursday, 03 September 2009
Debates about the pros and cons of various licences available to free and open source software developers often end up generating more heat than light.

 
ATO emulates ignorance when it comes to the Mac
Tuesday, 01 September 2009
The Australian Taxation Office appears to be somewhat confused over what role emulation software (better known as virtualisation software) plays on the Apple Macintosh when it comes to running the ATO's own e-tax application.

 
Slackware GNU/Linux releases version 13
Saturday, 29 August 2009
The grand old man of GNU/Linux distributions, Slackware, has released version 13 with several new features.
 
Apache project server compromised
Saturday, 29 August 2009
A server at the Apache project has been compromised, resulting in some hours of downtime, the project has announced.
 
OLPC will make children Microserfs: FSF
Saturday, 29 August 2009
The Free Software Foundation has described the One Laptop per Child Project as one that will only help to "turn millions of children into Microsoft dependents."

 
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