Showing posts with label macos x. Show all posts
Showing posts with label macos x. Show all posts
20 March 2008

It's Déjà Vu, All Over Again

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A few months back, I wrote about a petition calling for ERT, the Greek national broadcaster, to make its content freely available. Now it ...
07 February 2008

No Download iPlayer for GNU/Linux in 2008

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The BBC will launch a download version of its iPlayer online video service for Apple Mac users by the end of 2008. But no mention of GNU/Li...
16 January 2008

Open Politics

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One sphere where openness is generally acknowledged as indispensable is politics: true democracy can never be opaque. In the past, providin...
26 November 2007

Here We Go Round the (Open) Mulberry Bush

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Mulberry started off life as a software project that was really meant to help the author learn more about the internet and internet protocol...

Soaraway Open Source

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Rupert Murdoch's tabloid Sun newspaper, better known for its fascination with chest-tops rather than laptops, is nonetheless starting t...
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17 October 2007

Apple Supports ODF

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At last : OpenDocument and Word 2007 Formats Take advantage of TextEdit support for the Word 2007 and OpenDocument formats for reading and w...
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17 July 2007

BBC Hoist By Its Own Petard

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Oh, this is rich : A revised version of FairUse4WM reappeared on forums late last week, and the utility now effectively strips the DRM from ...
18 June 2007

iDon'tPhone

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I seem to be one of the few people on this planet unaffected by the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field; indeed, I find the Fake Steve Jobs ...
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01 June 2007

Virtual GNU/Linux

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Virtual Windows systems are familiar enough, but how about this: LINA , a virtual GNU/Linux environment? With LINA, a single executable writ...
03 May 2007

Sun Joins Mac Port of OpenOffice.org

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Further signs of Sun's broad commitment to open source and OpenOffice.org: I'm excited to let you all know that as of now Sun engin...
16 April 2007

Microsoft Sees the (Silver)Light

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I suppose I ought to approve of Microsoft's new Silverlight : Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for deliv...
04 February 2007

Help the Fight for an Open BBC

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I seem to be writing lots of posts asking people for help with petitions and wotnot: sorry, here's another one. This time its about the ...
17 January 2007

Open Aladdin4D

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I've written before about the example of Blender , and how it was freed from its proprietary shackles. Now it seems that another model...
11 January 2007

Open Second Life in Practice

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Just to show that it's not all theoretical : I've now successfully built Second Life from source on both Mac OS X and Ubuntu. The Ma...
18 April 2006

Lear's Fool, Mac OS X, Windows and Open Source

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Misled by his intentionally-provocative columns , people tend to treat John Dvorak as some kind of industry buffoon. But as his biography ...
20 February 2006

Freedom, in Other Words

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Recently the blogosphere went slightly bonkers over a story that "the Korean government plans to select a city and a university late ...
24 January 2006

Open Access, Open Source, Open Dialogue

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One of the most important facets of the blog world is the rapid and intelligent dialogue it allows. A case in point is the interview that a...
19 January 2006

Time for Mac users to see the OSS light?

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The good news just kept on coming in Steve Jobs's recent MacWorld speech: $5.7 million revenue in the last quarter for Apple; 14 millio...
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