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.

Memo to Con Kolivas: why not roll your own? by Sam Varghese    Thursday, 26 July 2007 In early 1996, Theo de Raadt, now well known as the head of the OpenBSD project, started to get an inkling that he was being somewhat marginalised within the NetBSD project of which he was then an integral part.

Ubuntu lives in a closed system by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 24 July 2007 Ten days into July, Canonical, the company which is best known for the Ubuntu Linux distribution, released the source code for one component of Launchpad - a system that serves as a single repository for revision control.   No tax software for you, naughty Linux/Mac user by Sam Varghese    Friday, 20 July 2007 It's tax time in Australia. Three weeks into the new financial year, now is about the time when people have all their documentation ready to give the government its yearly pound of flesh.   Slackware: old warhorse is going strong by Sam Varghese    Wednesday, 18 July 2007 The last time I looked at Slackware was nearly seven years ago; version 7.1 was thrown my way by a magazine and I was asked for a review. My usage of the distribution had ended early in 2000 when I moved to Debian after using Slackware 4.0 and then 7.0 for about a year.   GPL: fear is the key by Sam Varghese    Monday, 16 July 2007 The third revision of the General Public Licence has been out for just short of three weeks but plenty of people are already questioning why take-up has been so slow.   Microsoft's latest: blame Oprah Winfrey by Sam Varghese    Saturday, 07 July 2007 I live in the state of Victoria in Australia. On this day, the 7th day of the 7th month in the year of our Lord 2007, I hereby declare that I am not bound by the traffic laws of Victoria and that I can drive my car at any speed I choose.   OOXML: one small step for Microsoft by Sam Varghese    Friday, 06 July 2007 A couple of days before the United States of America observed its independence day, the state of Massachusetts declared that it had suddenly discovered that Microsoft Office Open XML document format met the definition of an open standard.   Joomla!: there's more gas in this story by Sam Varghese    Thursday, 05 July 2007 Yesterday (July 5) I ran an article in this space with the title which is retained above. This article consisted of a reaction to the piece Joomla! - the licence stays the same from the project co-founder Brian Teeman who is now no longer with Joomla!.   Joomla! - the licence stays the same by Sam Varghese    Wednesday, 04 July 2007 When the Joomla! project - one of the most widely used open source content management systems - announced on June 15 that that it would be "committing to compliance with the GPL" users were left wondering at the implications.   In praise of the GPLv3 by Sam Varghese    Sunday, 01 July 2007 These days, Richard Matthew Stallman, the enigmatic founder of the Free Software Foundation, isn't exactly flavour of the month.   Vista: They took five years for this? by Sam Varghese    Friday, 22 June 2007 Linux users can, at times, be the worst kind of ingrates, whining and complaining about what they perceive as missing features in a free operating system.   Nine days left for patent deals by Sam Varghese    Wednesday, 20 June 2007 There are exactly nine days left for Microsoft to get other Linux companies to sign up for patent cross-licensing deals.   Venezuela shows the way by Sam Varghese    Monday, 18 June 2007 Free and open source software is often seen as a political tool. While many developers try to avoid the political aspects and concentrate on the code, events periodically tend to remind us that FOSS is a powerful tool in the fight for people's minds.

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