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Open source takes no hostages
Friday, 12 June 2009
Have you ever had the experience of creating and storing data in a certain application, only to find that your dependency on a proprietary format means that you have lost all your data?
 
OpenSolaris: how long will it be with us?
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
OpenSolaris came out with its third release last week and within a year there seems to have been some pretty good progress.
 
Will Google be beached by the Wave?
Friday, 05 June 2009
In its short existence, everything that Google has done, business-wise, has been marked by one trait: simplicity.
 
Fedora casts Mono into outer darkness
Thursday, 04 June 2009
Red Hat's community GNU/Linux distribution, Fedora, has decided to replace the Mono-dependent note-taking application Tomboy with Gnote in upcoming releases, according to a message posted to the Fedora Desktop mailing list.
 
What is linux.com trying to achieve?
Wednesday, 03 June 2009
What exactly does the Linux Foundation hope to achieve by running a parallel site, linux.com? Is it a bid to shape the debate around GNU/Linux, something which companies are increasingly trying to do for their own products?
 
Even OpenSUSE recognises drawbacks of Mono
Wednesday, 03 June 2009
Mention Mono in a story and you are certain to draw two kinds of readers - the followers, those who have drunk the kool-aid ladled out by Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza, and the detractors, who realise that it could cause them patent headaches a few years hence.
 
The return of Stephen 'e-security' Conroy
Tuesday, 02 June 2009
It's fair to say that in recent times, the Australian communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has been made to look a mite foolish. Sorry, let me give the man his rightful title - minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy.
 
How GNU/Linux users can keep Mono at bay
Monday, 01 June 2009
GNU/Linux users who want to keep Mono off their systems can now use an application that warns them when elements of the open source clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment are being installed.
 
Windows 7: Vista Mark II
Friday, 29 May 2009
For sometime earlier this year, there was much talk about how Windows 7 was going to play saviour to rescue its creators from the cesspit that Vista had created. Now it looks like even the biggest fans of that company in Redmond have realised that it is another dud.
 
Kiwis give Microsoft the finger
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
One of the money milking machines in Microsoft's stable has just gone dry. It's a little teat but significant in that it shows the way for other, bigger teats to be pulled out of the Redmond suction pump.
 
The elusive, royalty-free patent licence for Mono
Monday, 25 May 2009
How difficult or easy is it to obtain one of the much-touted "royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory" licences for Microsoft patents that are part of a technology like Mono?
 
Desktop Linux: it ain't a better Windows
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
One debate which the FOSS community will never give up on is the one about GNU/Linux on the desktop. No matter that the two big companies which were once interested in putting GNU/Linux on the desktop have now officially given up.
 
Queensland firm comes up with multisite CMS
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
A Queensland company, ZacWare, has released an application that can transform the popular open source content management system Joomla! into a multisite CMS.
 
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