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Tuesday, 28 November 2006 |
The Novell-Microsoft deal is set to come up against hurdles next year with the head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard M. Stallman, confirming that the organisation would use the terms of the next version of the General Public Licence to prevent Novell from using FSF-copyrighted software.
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
Is it right for free and open source projects to capitalise on the dissatisfaction created by the Microsoft-Novell deal and try to attract developers who work for Novell to jump ship?
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Saturday, 25 November 2006 |
Bruce Perens is a staunch supporter of the FOSS movement. One-time leader of the Debian GNU/Linux Project and the primary author of the open source contract, Perens has now launched an online petition asking Novell to recant some of the terms of its deal with Microsoft so that the entire community is not disadvantaged.
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Friday, 24 November 2006 |
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In the midst of all the noise generated by patent trolls, I can't help but think that the tech industry would be a much better place if it had more people like Steve Wozniak.
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Wednesday, 22 November 2006 |
There was a time some years ago when Red Hat used to be contemptuously referred to as "the Microsoft of the Linux industry." How the times have changed!
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Sunday, 19 November 2006 |
If anything can raise the hackles of the free and open source software community it is the spectre of a big proprietary software comapny trying to muscle in and grab some of the action.
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Tuesday, 26 September 2006 |
If there were any doubts over Linus Torvalds' position on the forthcoming third version of the General Public License (GPLv3), the creator of the Linux kernel has made his position clear.
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
In the early days, Linux was never a desktop contender.
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Friday, 22 September 2006 |
The way of the Free Software Foundation is to insist on purity. The way of open source is to seek compromises.
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006 |
Ever had the experience of contacting someone for an interview, getting the subject's agreement and then not being able to carry it through for some reason or the other?
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Monday, 18 September 2006 |
If the move from Windows to Linux, which the government of the south Indian state of Kerala has been making a noise about, actually does come off, then it would be the largest such migration ever seen.
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Friday, 15 September 2006 |
It's considered a good thing that a free software project never really has to die - if the person who started it gives up, another can always take the code and run with it.
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Tuesday, 12 September 2006 |
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By March next year at the latest, if all goes according to schedule, the differences between the open source and free software camps will be on open show.
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