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23 November 2013
Is Apache the Most Important Open Source Project?
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Back in the mists of time - I'm talking about 2000 here - when free software was still viewed by many as a rather exotic idea, I publ...
10 March 2013
Python Trademark At Risk In Europe: Python Software Foundation Appeals For Help
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The open source programming language Python -- named after the British comedy series "Monty Python" -- became popular in the ...
13 September 2012
What a Wonderful Piece of Work is Opus
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When we talk of free software, we typically think of things like GNU /Linux, Apache or Firefox. But one aspect that often gets overlooked...
20 May 2012
How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards V
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Ten years ago, people were saying that open source would never be able to best proprietary software. But what they overlooked was the fa...
17 October 2011
Office Suites: LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org?
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The office suite has occupied a very strange position in the world of open source. As a key software tool used by practically everyone on...
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11 October 2011
Will Nginx Be to Apache What Chrome is to Firefox?
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The Netcraft Web Server Survey , which appears each month, is usually viewed as offering the spectacle of a two-player fight between the ...
05 July 2011
Data Portals Become Fashionable: Time to Worry?
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Yesterday I mentioned Nigel Shadbolt, who has played a leading role in the opening up of government data in the UK. By chance, I've just...
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30 November 2010
Why I'm Rooting for Microsoft
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It will not have escaped your notice that the patent system has been the subject of several posts on this blog, or that the general tenor is...
15 November 2010
Microsoft: Super - But Not Quite Super Enough
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Once upon a time, the Netcraft Web server market share was reported upon eagerly every month for the fact that it showed open source soundly...
28 July 2010
Will Adobe See the Light (of Day)?
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The content management company Day Software may not be the world's most famous outfit making money from open source – perhaps a functio...
06 July 2010
Open Source: It's all LinkedIn
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As I noted in my post “Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?", one of the reasons there are no large pure-play open source compa...
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05 July 2010
WWW: World Wide Wikipedia
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I love Wikipedia. I love using it, frequently spending many a spare minute (that I don't actually have) simply wandering from one entry ...
22 March 2010
Free Software's Second Era: The Rise and Fall of MySQL
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If the first era of free software was about the creation of the fully-rounded GNU/Linux operating system, the second saw a generation of key...
24 February 2010
Many Happy Returns, Apache
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We tend to think of free software as (mostly) new, so the fact that Apache celebrated its 15th birthday yesterday seems pretty extraordinary...
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07 October 2009
Meet Microsoft, the Delusional
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This is hilarious : Jean Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft Europe, described the company as an underdog in Paris today. He said Bing...
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19 March 2009
It's *Not* The 15th Birthday of Linux – and Why That Matters
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Last week, I wondered whether I'd gone back in time. Everywhere I went online – on news sites, blogs and Twitter – people were celebrati...
16 March 2009
Open Source Cloud Computing Made Easy
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Creating a business around free software is hardly a new idea: Cygnus Solutions, based around Stallman's GCC, was set up in 1989. But he...
13 March 2009
Shining Light on Why Microsoft Loves LAMP to Death
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Here's an interesting little tale : I was fortunate enough to spend last Thursday with a group of LAMP engineers who have some experienc...
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Defining Moments in Web History
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Although Tim Berners-Lee made his “Information Management” proposal back in March 1989, the key moment for what became the World Wide Web wa...
24 February 2009
The Chinese (Web Servers) Are Coming
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The monthly release of the Netcraft survey is always good, since it generally shows the continuing dominance of Apache in the Web server fie...
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