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OOXML: the propaganda war has begun
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Friday, 18 January 2008
The first salvo in the document standard war of 2008 has been fired - and, predictably, it favours the Microsoft camp. A study by the Burton Group, a firm of consultants, has come down hard on the side of Microsoft Office Open XML.

 
Sun Microsystems buys MySQL
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Thursday, 17 January 2008
Sun Microsystems has announced that it will be buying the best known open source database company, MySQL, for $US1 billion.
 
linux.conf.au: Look Tux, no wires
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008
When Kim Hawtin, like many other young Australians, went to London in 2000 to work. he never knew that he would be introduced to one of the abiding interests of his life while there. Then in his late 20s, he had gone over to the mother country after graduation. While there he got involved with Consume.net, a group aiming to build up community wireless networks.
 
linux.conf.au: What is Novell doing here?
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Friday, 11 January 2008
A GNU/Linux system does not normally load modules that are not released under an approved licence. So why should Australia’s national Linux conference take on board a sponsor who engages in practices that are at odds with the community?
 
Software that gets in the way
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008
Do utilities which provide a graphical user interfaces really help us? Or are they merely another layer between people and their own competence? At times, I really wonder.
 
2008: Not the year of the Linux desktop
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Friday, 04 January 2008
The new year is less than a week old but the talk has already begun. Yes, we are hearing that hackneyed old saw again - this will be the year of the Linux desktop. Some so-called pundits say it directly, some in an indirect manner but they aren't holding back.
 
Vista: even six years isn't enough
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Tuesday, 01 January 2008
How many years does it take to create an operating system that works? How many people does it  take to do the work - in other words, how many manhours does this task consume? Would Microsoft like to cast some light on this?
 
Thank you for the code
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Thursday, 27 December 2007
There are a total of 21,652 packages installed on my home workstation, an AMD64 single core processor box which has been in use since March 2006. It runs the testing stream of Debian. That's a lot of code, all of it free as in beer.
 
FOSS folk who make us proud
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Tuesday, 25 December 2007
Five days ago, three members of the free and open source software community finally heaved a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from their brows after winning a battle they had waged for years.
 
linux.conf.au: Taking FOSS to the masses
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Tuesday, 25 December 2007
Jacinta Richardson is one woman who admits to definitely being a geek. But that hasn't got in the way of her being the organiser of the only non-geek event of the 2008 Australian national Linux conference - Open Day.
 
linux.conf.au: The house full sign is up
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Sunday, 23 December 2007
There are 35 days left before Australia's national Linux conference gets underway in Melbourne on January 28 but tickets have already sold out.
 
OOXML: move the goalposts, avoid facing the obvious
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Friday, 21 December 2007
Last week, following a radio discussion, linux.com writer Bruce Byfield characterised two opposing FOSS camps in the OOXML debate who participated in that discussion as being "closer than they have appeared in the past."
 
GNOME: the cowboy project
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Thursday, 20 December 2007
What is the relationship between the GNU Project and the GNOME desktop suite? GNOME itself claims to be a part of the GNU Project. But its relationship with the organisation is not the same as that of other software projects which are part of GNU.
 
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