After flirting with tech from 1989 onwards, Sam Varghese began to experiment with Linux in 1998. A couple of years later, he began using the Debian distribution as a single-boot system for his personal use. From that point onwards his interest grew and he has since written widely about free and open source software, with a great deal of his writings based on his own experiences, rather than anecdotal evidence. Open Sauce will focus on a genre of software that is present everywhere but rarely acknowledged; a genre that has little eye-candy but does most of the heavy lifting; a genre that is designed and written by people whose accomplishments are only occasionally recognised. Above all this blog will follow the KISS principle - Keep It Simple, Stupid.

The elusive, royalty-free patent licence for Mono by Sam Varghese    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 by Sam Varghese    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 by Sam Varghese    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.   GNU/Linux: rubbery figures don't help the cause by Sam Varghese    Thursday, 14 May 2009 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.   Brits to test life without Windows by Sam Varghese    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."   Does GNU/Linux need cult figures like Jobs? by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 12 May 2009 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?   XP mode? You may need a new PC by Sam Varghese    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.   Taking Joomla! to new heights by Sam Varghese    Friday, 08 May 2009 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.   Netbook gains: win or loss for Microsoft? by Sam Varghese    Thursday, 07 May 2009 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.   GNOME Foundation wants your money by Sam Varghese    Monday, 04 May 2009 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.   Steve McIntyre re-elected Debian leader by Sam Varghese    Monday, 13 April 2009 British developer Steve McIntyre has been re-elected leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project (DPL) for 2009-10.   GNOME begins to play catch up with KDE by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 07 April 2009 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."   Mono fits in neatly with the Microsoft vision by Sam Varghese    Monday, 06 April 2009 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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