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Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
Wednesday, 04 April 2007
A little over five months has gone by since the Microsoft-Novell deal was signed but some details still remain unknown.
 
Ballmer joins Linux Foundation board
Sunday, 01 April 2007
In what many long-time observers of free and open source software consider a natural progression, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer is to join the board of the Linux Foundation.

 
New GNU licence delayed
Thursday, 29 March 2007
The GPL version 3 will take a few months more to come into effect. A March deadline has slipped and it is now looking like it may take until the final quarter of 2007 before the licence is formally ushered in.

 
Debian at the crossroads
Monday, 26 March 2007
The Debian GNU/Linux project has come to some kind of crossroads - due to many factors, some of them artificial - and the man who takes over leadership next month will have to make some crucial decisions on the future direction of the project.

 
Perens continues to fight the good fight
Thursday, 22 March 2007
Every year, Novell holds its annual tradeshow, which it calls Brainshare, in Salt Lake City, Utah. This year, the company has had a much smaller, but possibly more raucuous, companion, across the street.
 
Dell, Linux... and Mark Shuttleworth
Monday, 19 March 2007
A few weeks back Dell invited ideas from the world at large about what it should put on sale - in other words, what did the so-called "community" want?
 
Novell deal yields dividends - for Red Hat
Friday, 16 March 2007
A "sizeable number" of developers have jumped ship from Novell to Red Hat, according to Scott Crenshaw, the senior director for product management and marketing at Red Hat.
 
Among the taliban
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Fundamentalism is a frequent topic of conversation these days but it is discussed only in the context of religion. Overlooked is the fact that this attribute can exist among the operating system faithful as well - a breed I call the operating system taliban (hereafter referred to as the OST).
 
Where are the Linux admins?
Friday, 09 March 2007
In the battle to spread the use of GNU/Linux, it is often forgotten that education has to be the starting point. People need to be educated to the point where they come to demand decent behaviour from an operating system; companies need educated admins to keep GNU/Linux systems running.

 
Dell and Linux: just another fan dance
Wednesday, 07 March 2007
Dell is down on its luck a bit and recently decided that it needed to look like a good citizen. So the company put out an invitation seeking ideas from the "community" on a new website called IdeaStorm which apes the model created by Digg.

 
Is GNU/Linux for you? Probably not
Friday, 02 March 2007
From time to time, it is not uncommon to encounter a confession on the net, a bleating essay that says "I can't run Linux, though I'd love to", and advances a host of assorted "reasons" for this act of commission.

 
GPLv3 to miss March deadline
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
The release of the third version of the GNU Project's General Public License will be delayed by a few months.

 
Ubuntu is not a charity: Shuttleworth
Monday, 26 February 2007
The Ubuntu GNU/Linux project is not a charity. Rather, founder Mark Shuttleworth says his aim is to build a distribution "which is freely available, showcases the best of free software and is sustainable in its own right."

 
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