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.

A cry from Xandros: please, take note of us by Sam Varghese    Wednesday, 06 June 2007 The deal Xandros Corporation signed with Microsoft on June 4 is an indicator of several things.

Fedora 7.0: moving to outpace Sun by Sam Varghese    Monday, 04 June 2007 With its release of Fedora 7.0 last week, Red Hat has signalled that it is acutely aware of the threat that Sun could pose to its market share in the years ahead.   GPLv3: the sting remains, says RMS by Sam Varghese    Friday, 01 June 2007 The Free Software Foundation will publish the last call draft of the third revision of its General Public License (GPLv3) today and has retained sufficient bite in it to penalise Microsoft.   Is the FSF about to pardon Novell? by Sam Varghese    Thursday, 31 May 2007 Has the Free Software Foundation, like many others, chosen the path of least resistance and decided to bend with the wind? A Reuters report about the forthcoming final draft of the GPLv3 would make it appear so.   Red Hat advises caution over patents by Sam Varghese    Monday, 28 May 2007 Red Hat's Mark Webbink is not the sort of person to issue threats. He's somewhat unusual in that he's a legal counsel who uses clear, concise prose when he speaks. Like all those in the profession, he does speak carefully but thankfully his speech is free of obfuscation.   Novell documents tell us nothing new by Sam Varghese    Monday, 28 May 2007 How much more do we know about the Microsoft-Novell deal now, after Novell posted some of the details of three agreements on the web on Saturday as part of a regular filing with the SEC? Precisely nothing that we did not know earlier.   Is Dell listening to the right people? by Sam Varghese    Friday, 25 May 2007 The next chapter in Dell's Ubuntu charade has been written with the release of two PCs and one laptop loaded with the Linux distribution.   Dell and Ubuntu: why bother? by Sam Varghese    Wednesday, 23 May 2007 I have a question for Michael Dell - why is he trying to be cute about the company's foray into selling boxes with Ubuntu installed? In the normal course of things, Dell would do it all very formally - a press release, a media conference, a briefing to analysts and so on.   Has Microsoft violated the GPL? by Sam Varghese    Monday, 21 May 2007 It would be rather funny if, after all the brouhaha Microsoft has made recently about patent violations, the company is found to be violating the one thing which it passionately hates - the existing General Public Licence.   Microsoft: shades of Saddam Hussein by Sam Varghese    Thursday, 17 May 2007 When they write the history of the computer history 10 years from now, the date May 14, 2007 will be marked in red: it's the day when everyone knew that Microsoft was starting to go down the tube.   First steps in the patent protection racket by Sam Varghese    Monday, 14 May 2007 Vista isn't selling as well as expected. Hints that Linux infringes Microsoft's patents aren't working well as a protection racket. And the third revision of the General Public Licence is due to come into force soon.   Solaris can never be Linux by Sam Varghese    Monday, 14 May 2007 Whenever I hear the words Sun Microsystems and open source mentioned together I can't help but laugh.   Red Hat can learn from Milkha Singh by Sam Varghese    Friday, 11 May 2007 I have a lot of time for the people at Red Hat. Despite their occasional foot-in-mouth periods, they have by and large kept their heads straight when it comes to running the Linux race and achieved what many other Linux companies would love to achieve - a steady income stream.

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