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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 |
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What a movement achieves depends greatly on the motivations behind it; when one is pushed to do something, then much less is achieved than if the movement arises spontaneously.
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by Sam Varghese
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Friday, 11 September 2009 |
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Microsoft is continuing to try and keep the free software and open source world guessing by announcing that it has set up an open source foundation to enable "the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities."
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by Sam Varghese
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Tuesday, 08 September 2009 |
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A veteran of Australia's open source industry says that unless government agencies make a fundamental decision to change technologies and then plan their move, the status quo will remain.
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by Sam Varghese
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 |
Debates about the pros and cons of various licences available to free and open source software developers often end up generating more heat than light.
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by Sam Varghese
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Tuesday, 01 September 2009 |
The Australian Taxation Office appears to be somewhat confused over what role emulation software (better known as virtualisation software) plays on the Apple Macintosh when it comes to running the ATO's own e-tax application.
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by Sam Varghese
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Saturday, 29 August 2009 |
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The grand old man of GNU/Linux distributions, Slackware, has released version 13 with several new features.
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by Sam Varghese
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Saturday, 29 August 2009 |
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A server at the Apache project has been compromised, resulting in some hours of downtime, the project has announced.
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by Sam Varghese
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Saturday, 29 August 2009 |
The Free Software Foundation has described the One Laptop per Child Project as one that will only help to "turn millions of children into Microsoft dependents."
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by Sam Varghese
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Thursday, 27 August 2009 |
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The Free Software Foundation has launched a campaign to educate people about what it sees as the downsides of using Windows 7 which is set to launch on October 22.
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by Sam Varghese
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 |
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An appeals court in the long-running case between SCO and Novell has ruled that a decision on who owns the copyrights to UNIX must be decided by a jury and not a judge.
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
If one were to go by the amount of noise made by pro-Mono people regarding the superiority of the Microsoft clone which they love, one would conclude that C# is the programming language du jour. The reality appears to be somewhat different.
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on September 19 on the participation of women in free software, to discuss means whereby involvement can be increased.
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by Sam Varghese
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
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Over the past four years, the word Linux has become almost synonymous with Ubuntu; the company behind Ubuntu, Canonical, has proportionately gained an enormous amount of mindshare within the FOSS community.
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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.
