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.

Redmond backs off, settles TomTom patent suit by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 31 March 2009 Microsoft appears to have backed off from a wider confrontation with the free and open source software community by settling the alleged patent infringement case that it filed against GPS device maker TomTom last month.

SUSE 11 vs Windows 7: no contest by Sam Varghese    Monday, 30 March 2009 SUSE Linux 11 has been out less than 10 days but already there are comparisons of the distribution to Windows - all of which are being accepted as compliments.   Linux on the desktop:oh, not that debate again! by Sam Varghese    Thursday, 26 March 2009 What does one make of a statement from the chief of the biggest commercial Linux company to the effect that Linux cannot be a success on the desktop?   SUSE can't live with Linux, it can live with XP by Sam Varghese    Wednesday, 25 March 2009 Novell's latest SUSE release, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, appears to be unable to boot from DVD on a PC on which another Linux distribution is installed. If you have Windows XP installed, the same DVD boots as it should.   Why it's better to buy Apple rather than Microsoft by Sam Varghese    Wednesday, 25 March 2009 You have to hand it to Steve Ballmer. The man is never short of inaccurate statistics or words to take a dig at the two rivals which Microsoft has been confronting in recent times - Apple and Linux.   When politics does not get in the way of FOSS by Sam Varghese    Monday, 23 March 2009 Politicians have no incentive to adopt free and open source software - not until someone writes a FOSS application that will ensure that they win the next election. But when geeks are part of a party and the party's policies are furthered by adopting FOSS, then it is a slightly different story.   TomTom hits back, sues Microsoft by Sam Varghese    Saturday, 21 March 2009 Portable GPS car navigation systems maker TomTom has hit back at Microsoft, filing a suit in which it alleges that the Redmond-based company's Streets and Trips software has violated four of its patents.   Why IDC-Novell survey is a dud by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 17 March 2009 Close on the heels of a disastous first quarter, during which it did not sign any large Linux deals, Novell has hired IDC to carry out a survey that has, predictably, come up with some results that have been well spun when being presented to the media to cast the company's prospects in a favourable light.   Selling open source to the powers-that-be by Sam Varghese    Monday, 16 March 2009 The idea of thinking up a hypothetical situation and then asking a group of qualified panellists to visualise how each would react to it is nothing new.   Craven BBC avoids naming botnet hosts by Sam Varghese    Saturday, 14 March 2009 The BBC has pulled off a stunt of some magnitude in purchasing a botnet made up of 20,000-odd computers and using them to demonstrate the power such a group has to send spam or launch a distributed denial of service attack.   Two in race for Debian project leader by Sam Varghese    Thursday, 12 March 2009 It's that time of the year again - the Debian GNU/Linux project is in election mode with the process for electing a leader for 2009-10 having begun.   Why Microsoft has chosen to go after Linux now by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 10 March 2009 A couple of months back, at Australia's national Linux conference, a young Microsoft employee sat down with me and discussed ways in which Microsoft has contributed to open source.   Governments and open source: never the twain shall meet by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 03 March 2009 It's interesting to see the reaction from various corners of the FOSS community when any government announces a policy that is seen as friendly to open source and one which could, possibly, help to spread its use.

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