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- The gag is off: Samba's Allison talks turkey on Microsoft-Novell deal
- The gag is off: Samba's Allison talks turkey on Microsoft-Novell dealWhen the going gets tough......the tough get going.Few have access to and currently understand the Novell/MS 'convenant' and I am inclined to believe Ron Hovsepian when he says the accord does not impact on GPL whatsoever paraphrasing here.This is really...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, source world, MCS, Samba, Allison, GPL, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-30
- The ultimate revenge? Novell's Allison to join Google
- The ultimate revenge? Novell's Allison to join Googleawesomeit'd be nice to see more people leave the dark sideMJF Should joinMary-Jo Foley should join the National Enquirer. Her type of journalism would be more at home there. Let's keep ZDNet to news and facts not GOSSIP...So much for principleI suspect, due...
- Tags: Operating systems, VPNs, Servers, Network security, Reuters Ltd., Novell Inc., Allison, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-21
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- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Tough love: Linux needs more haters
- [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] I've been spending far too much time reading a blog recently. Normally I dislike reading blogs, or as my friend from the IT News site "the Register" Andrew Orlowski calls them;...
- Tags: Blog, LinuxHaters, LinuxHater, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Internet, Jeremy Allison
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violationwho do they think they are fooling?apologizing for nothing does not absolve M$ of the other grave crimes they commited in the last 20 years.The point of CodePlex is???I have a fellow developer thats completely oblivious to anything non-MS. We would discuss...
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- News to know: Windows 7; Firefox 3.0; Yahoo; SOA; Nokia
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: To wait or not to wait? That is the question Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 2 available from FTP servers ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Camcorder, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery
- "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." --Isaac Newton. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] It isn't really a surprise that I ended up...
- Tags: Software, Patent, Astronomer, Astronomy, Amateur, Computer, Computing Science, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Jeremy Allison
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft
- Samba's forthcoming version 3.2 release capitalizes on Microsoft's interoperability commitments while also guarding against patent covenants that threaten the GPL. Samba 3.2, which is expected to be released in roughly one month's time, offers improved integration with the Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 and recently released...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Jeremy Allison, Samba, Microsoft Corp., Samba 3.2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Time and talent are the open source speed limits
- Time and talent are the open source speed limitsThird limit is motivationIf people are writing software to give away, then they have to be motivated to do so. Motive might be personal interest, might be solving a particular problem at home or work, or might be saving money (certain...
- Tags: Leadership, motivation, open source speed, open source, talent, software, FOSS world
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- News to know: Adobe launches AIR 1.0; Private IE 8 beta; Apple IIc; Jeremy Allison
- Notable headlines: Adobe to launch AIR 1.0 Techmeme. Putting terabytes of memory into servers, the cheap way Mary Jo Foley: Private IE 8 beta 1 test build coming soon Richard Stiennon: Pakistan removed...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Jeremy Allison, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Beta, Internet, Wireless LANs, E-mail Providers, Open Source, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push
- Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML pushHmmmmInteresting load of bunk.Funny, they could not even give one example of something in a legacydocument that cannot be translated to ODF. Nor could they give even one example of something required for MS Office that can not be supported by ODF.Statements like this show they...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML?
- IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML?Google will support search for whatever is on the web, no matter how badthe format may be. Google will also support import/export of OOXML for Google docs, since customers WANT interoperability. IBM will do the same, customers LIKE interoperability.But, that has nothing to do with whether...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, Mary Jo, OOXML, Google Inc., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
- Samba is beneficiary of Microsoft-EU deal
- Samba is beneficiary of Microsoft-EU dealCorrections[i]The ongoing fear for Samba was that, since it translates data into Microsoft formats, Microsoft might go after it in court for infringing on its patents. That fear is no more.[/i]Wrong. The deal contains no patent licenses.However, Microsoft has provided a list of its...
- Tags: Samba, Microsoft Corp., beneficiary
- Discussion threads 2007-12-20
- Microsoft and Samba finally come to terms over Windows protocols
- After years of public disagreement over ensuring interoperability between their respective software, Microsoft and Samba have come to terms. And not surprisingly, each vendor is offering quite a different spin on the licensing agreement they unveiled on December 20. It took an intermediary, the Protocol Freedom...
- Tags: Samba, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Acer offers upbeat sales forecast
- Acer offers upbeat sales forecastAcer offers upbeat sales forecastOh the same company that was whining and crying last year because of poor sales supposedly due to Vista is now having upbeat sales? I called BS last year and this is proof they were lying. I don't trust Acer anymore.They've...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, PRODUCTIVITY, BIOS update, Acer Inc., Acer TravelMate, IBM Corp., ASUS, sales, sales forecast
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- Mozilla: Critical vulnerability in Microsoft flaw-counting
- Mozilla: Critical vulnerability in Microsoft flaw-countingNew York, New Haven, New Jersey, New Mexico, New Hampshire, New ....anybody?...kidding itanalystYou are so clueless...I can't believe you claim to work in IT.And I think the OSS will not accept any metric that......favors Microsoft. They'll always find some way to dismiss it. The OSS...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Web browsers, OSS COMMUNITY, vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Web browser
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- News to know: Google storage; More Firefox 3 betas; Home grown all in one PCs
- Notable headlines: WSJ: Google plans service to store users' data. Paula Rooney: Mozilla plans 2 more Firefox 3 betas, ~500,000 copies of beta 1 downloaded to date Jeremy Allison: What I learned from my buggy code. Who should bear the burden...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, PC, Storage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Beta, Alcatel, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Branding, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Insecurity blues
- Insecurity bluesGreat articleThank you, Jeremy, for open and instructive account, from which one can learn. Really done in the open source spirit.Code snippetIt would have been interesting to have a read your code snippet with your comments on how the exploit buffer overrun succeeded.For example, on a parameter pass and...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, bad guy, security
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- Sun OpenSolaris makes nice with Windows
- Sun OpenSolaris makes nice with WindowsSun donates to M$!Poor M$, they don't have the brains to do anything.Was this part of the M$ - Sun deal, or M$ ran out of money and gets freebies like a charitable organization? ;)SUN CIFS vs Samba 3.0I wonder how Sun's CIFS stacks up...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Reading, OpenSolaris, wine, Microsoft Windows, Samba, Sun Microsystems Inc., Common Internet File System, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
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