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by Sam Varghese
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Monday, 25 May 2009 |
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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?
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by Sam Varghese
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
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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.
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by Sam Varghese
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 |
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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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by Sam Varghese
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 |
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Over the last 10 days there has been a spate of reports all based on some surprising statistics titled "Operating System Market Share" put out by a company named Net Applications.
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by Sam Varghese
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 |
Two British IT workers are planning to spend a month without Windows, using GNU/Linux instead in a project designed to see whether "the Linux operating system is capable of delivering the function and style of delivery that an established Windows user can adapt to easily."
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by Sam Varghese
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 |
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Does GNU/Linux need a cult figure like Steve Jobs to spread the word and convert the doubters? And does FOSS lend itself to the development of such egos, where technical merit alone does not count?
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by Sam Varghese
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Saturday, 09 May 2009 |
It's been my experience that when Microsoft announces something, one always has to read the fine print. That hasn't changed in the 20 years since I bought my first PC.
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by Sam Varghese
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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For someone who heads a project that develops the most widely used open source content management system, Andrew Eddie tends to be somewhat low-key. One could even call him bashful.
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by Sam Varghese
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Thursday, 07 May 2009 |
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Much is being made of the gains that Microsoft has apparently made in the netbook market, with manufacturers now finding that sales of the little gadgets with Linux on them are slowing to a trickle.
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by Sam Varghese
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Monday, 04 May 2009 |
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The global economic crisis has hit the GNOME Foundation to the extent that it is now seeking public money to ensure that it can keep an executive director, who was recruited last year, on its rolls.
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by Sam Varghese
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Monday, 13 April 2009 |
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British developer Steve McIntyre has been re-elected leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project (DPL) for 2009-10.
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by Sam Varghese
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Tuesday, 07 April 2009 |
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The GNOME project has released what it calls a roadmap towards version 3.0. After following a policy that mandated minor changes in its six-monthly releases, GNOME has decided that it would be a mistake to release 3.0 without a "user-visible change."
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by Sam Varghese
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Monday, 06 April 2009 |
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There's good news for the huge queue of developers waiting, impatiently, to write .NET applications and run them on the Linux platform. Or those who have written applications in .NET for Windows and can't wait to move them to Linux.
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