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Your license, or mine?

Your license, or mine?Not negative, no.[b][i]In effect what he's saying. and I think he's right whether he meant to say this or not, is that the GPL asserts intellectual property rights in a negative way: explicitly trying to prevent the commercial exploitation of community effort[/i][/b]One doesn't describe a license as...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, BSD License, Free Software Foundation, software, GPL, operating system, intellectual property

Discussion threads 2007-06-01

Nokia enters the BSD camp

Nokia enters the BSD campThe golden ruleHe who writes, chooses the license.I absolutely applaud Apple and Nokia releasing their works under the BSD license.Do keep in mind that this doesn't prevent others from taking those works and incorporating them with GPL-licensed stuff, though, since the BSD license places no obligation...

Tags: UNIX, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, daemon, Nokia Corp., BSD, WiMAX, KHTML, BSD License

Discussion threads 2005-06-15

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My new daughter is a lot like Linux

Windoze is a boys smelly diaper, Linux is a girls one, that's the messageI guess some people will never be mature enough to get it.Handling the learning curve...is not very hard. Particularly when you let them use the simple Gnome user interface which the standard Ubuntu has.Maybe this website of...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, diaper

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Orchard: Microsoft's open-source CMS platform is (re)born

an article for 2 readerswhy don't you make an article when someone farts there in redmond?I'm one of themWhile M$ using a BSD license seems to be a good start, the propietary underpining make it a non starter when compared to LAMP.Cute...Once aggain you prove that eitherA: you have a...

Tags: Oxite, Microsoft Corp., Orchard, open source, content management system

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

The real pros and cons of server virtualization

YepVMwear is starting to look like Windoze - adding unneeded functionality just because it can. Moving VMs around from server to server live - is COOL. But why do you need it? If you are on a consolidation binge and utilization is king, then there will be no "extra" capacity...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, Virtualization, server virtualization, VMwear, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-07

Microsoft partners to allow Eclipse interop on Win7, WinServer 2008 R2, Azure

Eclipse should decline the 'plug ins'M$ only ries to extend and extinguish here folks!Self interests always......Isn't that what most things revolve around? I'm sure that if Linux had a chance to extend and draw to its platform by working with Microsoft it would, unless they are too stupid to...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Eclipse, Linux, Mircosoft, Azure, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development

You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Websters, MySQL, GPL, Stallman

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Windows 95 wiped out last PC competition

Installed only on IBMAt least, isn't that what wiped out OS/2?OS/2 was a great OS, but everyone heard about Windows through marketing and away the lemmings go. The interesting twist is that Apple's limited hardware base is still getting them more customers. Apple is starting to show up as...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, UNIX, Microsoft Windows 95, PC, operating system, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, IBM OS/2, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

SCO story ends with a whimper

William Shakespear should have expanded on his "first ... the lawyers" bit!It is hard to feel sorry for people who go crying all the way to the bank!BAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!Good riddance.Someone remind meThis turned out exactly how Bitty/No Ax predicted, right?: o )SCO Xenix & UnixRather sad that their expertise at delivering...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, SCO Group Inc., BSD, Linux, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

The month ahead: Can Windows 7 close the Vista flop chapter?

Win7 cannot completely close the Vista flop chapter. Win7 is still WAY too bloated and inflexible, a take it all or leave it approach. Compare that with Linux where you can use it from a tiny embedded system all the way up to a large server with multiple cores and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Win7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Linux, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Cocoalicious 1.0b47 (Mac)

Cocoalicious is open source Cocoa del.icio.us client for Macintosh available under the terms of the BSD License. Features: reconfigures UI layout to cut down on wasted space; shortens date display format; modifies extended search so it can now be used to search for tag intersections; enables primitive caching and conditional...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Scifihifi, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-25

Microsoft confirms SMB2 vulnerability, warns of code execution risk

Feel free to delete this Ryan.ThanksIsn't it about time we stop playing nice andfind these people who create such an endless stream of blank and do a bit of Vlad the Impaler on them? Catch em... give them a fair trial (I want to be certain we publicly impale...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., SMB2, Microsoft Windows Vista, vulnerability, beta

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

More Microsoft layoffs, a resignation and other pre-Labor Day tidbits

Oh pooh...The days are coming to an end for 15G Operating Systems, in case they missed it Appliance driven devices under VMware IS the future.Not some insecure bloated expensive Server versions that require tens of thousands in licenses and still is crippled up by viruses/worms.;)On the plus side,nobody now knows...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, layoff, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux, server

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Red Hat: Microsoft taking cloud back to the 80s

Red Hat should feel right at home then because using their software is like using something out of the 80's. I'll prefer a modern company like Microsoft instead of a company based on 30 year old technology such as Red Hat. My theory is that Red Hat is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NT-kernel, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Linux, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Apple's massive new data center portends a cloudy future

I believe that if you look at Apple past historiesin terms of retail outlets and resellers, convetions, et cetera, in which Apple has cut all support for those venues and have undertaken those segments themselves, my guess would be is that they are planning to host everything that is outsourced...

Tags: Data centers, Channel management, Storage, Scripting languages, PC-class, data center, Apple Inc., Web development, Web

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Hex Fiend 2.0.0 (Mac)

Insert, delete, rearrange.  Hex Fiend does not limit you to in-place changes like some hex editors. Work with huge files.  Hex Fiend can handle as big a file as you're able to create. It's been tested on files as large as 118 GB. Small footprint.  Hex Fiend does not keep your files in...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, File, Hex Fiend, Flash Memory, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-30

Windows 7 activation ... FAIL!

Windows 7 activation ... FAIL!They sure have...Now if they'd only do so by making an actual good product rather than just locking everybody into using it....No SoI've been running Linux since giving up on Windows by having too many BSOD screens with Windows ME. And frankly, given Windows Genuine PITA...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, Linux, Microsoft Windows, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source incline

Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source inclineWith Apache, you can permit anybody to contribute, no questions asked, nothing to sign, and STILL sell proprietary versions to clients. With GPL, you have to make third party contributors sign everything over to you, which they often resent, and...

Tags: Java development tools, Tony, open source, Eclipse, Apache Software Foundation, EPL, GPL

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Codeplex the measure of Microsoft open source street cred

Codeplex the measure of Microsoft open source street credBeing as user oriented as they areMicrosoft performed a user satisfaction survey on the quality of air. Why they even asked we don't know.The results came out, and a whopping 87% of respondents said that they would much rather have "Microsoft Air".Microsoft...

Tags: CodePlex, Microsoft Corp., open source, Microsoft open source street, Microsoft Open Source

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Is the GPL losing its grip?

The only non-GPL licenses to attract significant usage are the Artistic License and the standard BSD. But the GPV v3 should, at its present rate of growth, pass the latter in share within six months, the report says. Over half of all projects are still licensed under GPL v2. by...

Tags: GPL, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-07-01