Showing posts with label linux journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linux journal. Show all posts
01 July 2009

Help Me Go Mano a Mano with Microsoft

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Next week, I'm taking part in a debate with a Microsoft representative about the passage of the OOXML file format through the ISO proces...
10 June 2009

SAP: Open Source's Friend or Foe?

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For an outfit that calls itself “the world's largest business software company”, the German software giant SAP is relatively little-know...
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09 May 2009

Should Software Developers Be Liable for their Code?

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Should Microsoft pay for the billions of dollars of damage that flaws in its software have caused around the world? It might have to, if a n...
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23 April 2009

Who Owns Commercial Open Source – and Can Forks Work?

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Three years ago, Tom Foremski wrote an interesting piece called “Adapt or die--the choice facing the open source movement“, which began: Can...
09 April 2009

Should an Open Source Licence Ever Be Patent-Agnostic?

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Sharing lies at the heart of free software, and drives much of its incredible efficiency as a development methodology. It means that coders ...
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29 March 2009

Building on Richard Stallman's Greatest Achievement

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What was Richard Stallman's greatest achievement? Some might say it's Emacs, one of the most powerful and adaptable pieces of softwa...
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...
27 February 2009

How to Hijack an EU Open Source Strategy Paper

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Open source is an outsider, not part of the establishment. One price it pays for this is not being privy to all the decisions that are made ...
12 January 2009

Should We Trash Windows Vista – or BadVista?

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The world and their dog seems to be talking about Windows 7 at the moment. Ironically, in part that's because it's proving almost im...
29 December 2008

Will 2009 Be Open or Closed?

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As the end of 2008 approaches, people's thoughts naturally turn to 2009, and what it might hold. The dire economic situation means that ...
12 December 2008

GPL Violations: Is Cisco the Big One?

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Many sceptics were convinced that as free software spread out beyond hackers into the general computing sector the rigorous GNU GPL licence ...
27 November 2008

Save the Libraries – With Open Source

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For some in the world of free software, libraries are things that you call, rather than visit. But the places where books are stored – espec...
22 October 2008

Why Microsoft Wants Us to Get All Mixed Up

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“What's in a name?” some bloke in the sixteenth century once asked. As Microsoft knows, quite a lot. What you call something can have a ...
09 October 2008

Why eBay Should Open-Source Skype

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eBay is not going through the happiest of times. Not only has it found it necessary to make 1000 people – 10% of its workforce – redundant, ...
30 September 2008

Openness is the Solution to the (Double) Subprime Crisis

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As I listen to all this talk of lack of trust in the banking system, of inflated values ungrounded in any reality, of “opacity”, and of “con...
19 September 2008

The *Other* Vista: Successful and Open Source

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The is a clear pattern to open source's continuing rise. The first free software that was deployed was at the bottom of the enterprise s...
26 August 2008

Could Microsoft's Photosynth Have Been Free Software?

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On Linux Journal .
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15 August 2008

What Comes After the Windows Era?

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On Linux Journal .
31 July 2008

Interview with Wind River's John Bruggeman

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On Linux Journal .
24 July 2008

Why We Must React to ACTA

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On Linux Journal .