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- Mozilla patches Firefox; tells users to avoid IE
- Mozilla patches Firefox; tells users to avoid IEROTFLMAO !!! What a barrel of laughs ,,,So Microsoft is to lazy to fix their problem . Sure it's Apple's Safari , no it's Mozilla's Firefox . Sure blame everyone , it's never Microsoft's fault . Folks what do you expect from spaghetti/swiss...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- Does open source make business decisions political?
- Of all the relationships changed by open source, perhaps the most nagging is that between business and politics.There's another taste of that in today's news, word the BBC is looking to make an open source version of its iPlayer.The BBC had made a business decision to work with Microsoft in...
- Tags: politics, Microsoft, Legal, Government, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Time to get off Red Hat's case?
- Time to get off Red Hat's case?Undeserved criticismPeople have been griping about Red Hat for at least ten years with everything from "they're out to become the next Microsoft" [1] to Anton's refusal to see any distinction between RH's business model and MS'.I agree, it's overdue for ending.I am by...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., open source, open source house
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- Comedy at the British Open Source Consortium
- Comedy at the British Open Source ConsortiumOnce again...[i]But does it offer the DRM guarantees that content companies DEMAND?[/i]What content company John C? The BBC [b]IS[/b] the content company. The citizens have already [b]paid[/b] for the content the BBC wants to distribute online; they want the BBC to pick a solution...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, British Broadcasting Corp., content company
- Discussion threads 2007-06-27
- Comedy at the British Open Source Consortium
- The BBC wants to release a product that would allow users to view BBC programs on their PC. Initially, this will be Windows-only for the same reasons 99% of third-party software OEMs target Windows first before providing support for other operating systems if at all. As expained in an article...
- Tags: Television, Open Source, Microsoft, DRM, Antitrust
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Open source needs lobbyists
- Open source needs lobbyistsSqueaking and whining is allopen source ever does.Correction[i]A legislator, prodded by his software-developer son, sought to place some language favoring open source into a bill creating a technology office for new Gov. Charlie Crist.[/i]The clause was about open formats, not open source.Microsoft's knee-jerk panic reaction illustrates the...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, open source, ODF Alliance
- Discussion threads 2007-04-18
- Open source fighting BBC in political war
- The struggle between open source and the BBC has become a political struggle, one that has turned open source Tory. With the BBC just one step removed from final approval of a Windows-based Video on Demand service, paid for with ratepayer money, the Open Source Consortium is mounting a counter-attack....
- Tags: General, Applications, Government, business models, video, British Broadcasting Corp., OSC
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Does open source need ethical guidelines?
- Europe's Open Source Consortium has begun work on a set of ethical guidelines covering open source development. Is this trip really necessary? How will such guidelines be policed, and who will police them? What penalties should we have for those who violate the guidelines?And what would such guidelines consist of,...
- Tags: open source
- Blog posts 2005-04-01
- Big consultants building a mystery on open source
- A ZDNet story that originated with Consulting Newsbuilds an intriguing mystery.Why haven't big consulting firms pursued the open source opportunity?Consulting News, based in London,features news about many big consultancies on its home page, but this story is an interview withMark Taylor, executive director of the Open Source Consortium, whose membership...
- Tags: open source
- Blog posts 2005-03-17
- Open source--open opportunity for consulting
- Open source--open opportunity for consultingThe way IBM is handling OS consultingIBM costs WAY too much, and their consultants are usually powerless to find and fix issues with the OS. They partner with SuSE for example, and the fingers get pointing early! I can point fingers for MUCH cheaper . ....
- Tags: open source, consulting, OSS
- Discussion threads 2005-03-17
- Latest Bagle succeeds by sheer numbers
- Latest Bagle succeeds by sheer numbersIn related news...From: http://bbspot.com/News/2004/07/microsoft_patent.htmlThursday, July 15 12:00 AM ETMicrosoft Granted Patent for Creating Insecure SoftwareBy Brian Briggs Redmond, WA - The US patent office awarded US patent 9,724,341 to Microsoft for its unique method in creating massive vulnerabilities in its software using Internet Explorer and...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Latest Bagle, patent, vulnerability, Linux, software, computer
- Discussion threads 2004-07-15
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