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12 February 2007
The Deeper View on Vista
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Once more, Brucie tells it like it is: Microsoft is reaching for a much bigger prize than Apple: not just Hollywood, but also peripheral ha...
IBM's Open Client Solution: Blue FOOGL
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Here's an interesting move by IBM, what it calls a "flexible software stack": IBM today unveiled a new Open Client Solution ...
A Doubly-Poisoned Chalice?
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I'm not sure about this : Probably most of you have heard or read about Novell's effort to provide VBA support in OpenOffice.org for...
Zlango! - Mind Your Language
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I have mixed feelings about constructed languages. On the one hand, efforts like Esperanto seem utterly pointless to me: given that there ...
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Flogging a Dead Horse
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I'm not sure this is going to make much difference, but it's interesting that they're trying : Hotels, restaurants and online sh...
La Seconde Vie, Das Zweite Leben
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Now what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. To say nothing of Second Life. And...
Not Your Average Smith: Updated
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As someone who spends a lot of time wandering around the free software world, I am still constantly amazed to happen upon interesting projec...
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09 February 2007
O Rose, Thou Art Sick!
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Further proof , if any were needed, that we haven't really got the hang of this water thing: The total amount of water used to produce a...
Fleury Flies the Nest
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Marc Fleury has been one of the more, er, colourful characters in the open source world. The acquisition of his company JBoss by Red Hat ne...
Red in Tooth and Claw
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More signs of desperation : The European Commission has resisted efforts by Microsoft to make it abandon its report into open-source softwar...
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Microsoft's "officelabs": Damp Squib in Waiting?
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Given that her sources are normally impeccable, what Mary Jo Foley has heard about Microsoft's new "officelabs" is likely to b...
The Man Who Would Not Compromise
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Here's another journalist who has discovered RMS's impressive rigour when it comes to free software: But once I notified Richard St...
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Second Life Goes Mobile
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Software firm Comverse Technology has created an application that runs Second Life on Java-enabled mobile phones, along with other software ...
La Vida Es SueƱo
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For those who dismiss Second Life as "just a game" here's a thought : The more interesting question is why people keep repeati...
08 February 2007
The Other OSS Stack
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I've written before about the growing enterprise open source stack, which pieces together disparate software to form a complete enterpri...
Seeing Things from a Different Perspective
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I first saw Kurosawa's Rashomon about 25 years ago. That whole world of black-and-white Japanese films produced in the 50s, 60s and 70...
Indonesia Hoards Bird 'Flu "Intellectual Property"
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You had any doubts about whether intellectual monopolies were a good thing? Try this : Indonesia is refusing to provide bird flu samples to...
Pipe Dream: Re-wiring the Net
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The online world is awash with XML feeds. The great thing about XML is that you can grab it and do stuff with it very easily, because it...
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Of Continuous Improvement and Open Source
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Hal Varian is one of the wisest - and oldest - commentators on Internet economics. he has a nice piece in the New York Times that looks a...
07 February 2007
Yoga, Ayurveda and Open Source
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Knopper's comments, noted below , were made during a talk at the Open Source conference, LinuxAsia 2007, in New Delhi, where Venkatesh ...
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The Gospel According to St. Klaus
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Klaus Knopper, the man behind the trailblazing Knoppix live distro, is brave enough to offer some thoughts on computing in the long term: I...
The Biter Bit
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This is why I just love it when Microsoft gets on its high horse about "piracy": Schools in the Perm region will soon quit buying...
Sun Shines Again
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Further to my general encomium on Sun, here's more good news : Sun Microsystems... today announced the upcoming availability of the Sta...
Give The RIAA Enough Network Cabling...
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...and it will hang itself. One of the under-appreciated benefits of a medium like Web publishing that has practically no barriers to entry ...
Windows: Rat's Nest and Dog's Breakfast
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As Edward Tufte has explained far more eloquently than I can, images are able to convey information far more compactly and efficiently than...
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