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12 January 2012
Is Microsoft Blocking Linux Booting on ARM Hardware?
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Back in September last year, there was a bit of a to-do about Microsoft's UEFI Secure Boot technology in Windows 8, when a Red Hat eng...
11 January 2012
"An Open-Source World"? Where's The Open Source?
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If we are to believe the early signs, 2012 may well be the year that British schools finally start to address the continuing shame that i...
10 November 2011
Is Google Losing it?
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Google matters for open source. First and foremost, it is an example of a multi-billion dollar global company that simply would not be po...
25 October 2011
Calling the Anti-Net Neutrality Bluff
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One of the key arguments used by companies who want to see the end of net neutrality is that with growing use of high-bandwidth services l...
20 June 2011
An Attack that Goes to the Heart of Free Software
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The key hack that made free software possible was a legal one: using copyright to keep software free. It did that by demanding a quid pro qu...
13 June 2011
Do We Still Need the FSF, GNU and GPL?
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It's easy to take things for granted – to assume that the world will always be as it is. And then sometimes you receive a mild jolt: som...
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05 May 2011
Who Should Buy SuSE Linux?
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In the early days of companies based around open source, the questions were: would they make any money? Would they survive? Once it was clea...
06 January 2011
Why Linux is Alpha and Omega
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I'm sure most people remember DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation - that later rebranded itself as the singularly unmemorable “Digital” ...
14 December 2010
Linux Embeds Itself Yet Further
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One of the many confusingly-similar groups in the open source space is Linaro: a Not For Profit (NFP) organization that aims to make embedde...
18 November 2010
Microsoft: "Linux at the End of its Life Cycle"
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Regular readers of this blog will know that I've tracked the rather painful history of attempts to increase the deployment of free soft...
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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...
09 November 2010
Is it Time for Free Software to Move on?
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A remarkable continuity underlies free software, going all the way back to Richard Stallman's first programs for his new GNU project. An...
27 October 2010
Linux Embeds Itself Even Deeper
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Because anyone can take Linux and use it as they wish without needing to ask permission (provided they comply with the licence), it ends up ...
10 September 2010
Project Canvas Will be *Linux* Based
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I've been pretty sceptical - and critical - of the BBC's TV over IP efforts, including Project Canvas : Project Canvas is a proposed...
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11 June 2010
Why GNU/Linux is Unmatched – and Unmatchable
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Users of free software are nothing if not passionate. Most of them care deeply about the code they use, and will happily plunge into the fla...
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02 June 2010
Open Sourcing Politics
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“Linux is subversive”: so begins “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” Eric Raymond's analysis of the open source way. The subversion there wa...
01 June 2010
GNU/Linux *Does* Scale – and How
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As everyone knows, GNU/Linux grew up as a project to create a completely free alternative to Unix. Key parts were written by Richard Stallma...
05 May 2010
The GNU/Linux Code of Life
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After I published Rebel Code in 2001, there was a natural instinct to think about writing another book (a natural masochistic instinct, I s...
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10 March 2010
Is Microsoft Afraid to Say the “L”-word?
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It seems that, having lost its position as monarch of the world of computing, Microsoft has decided to become the industry jester. Last week...
04 March 2010
Of Android and the Fear of Fragmentation
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Many were sceptical when Google announced that it was launching another mobile platform. After all, some said, there are already multiple of...
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