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- Hardware 2.0 - Best software applications/tools/utilities
- A few weeks ago my blogging colleague Ed Bott posted his top 10 list of favorite Windows applications. Now find out what my favorite applications, tools and utilities are. Some are commercial applications, while others are free to download and use. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: software, freeware, commercial, downloads
- Image galleries 2008-04-07
- Microsoft patent FUD working against Linux, says new study
- Looks like Microsoft's FUD campaign against Linux and open source is paying off, according to a new IDC study. Matthew Lawton, director of IDC's Worldwide Software Business Strategies Group, revealed some interesting tidbits from the non-public study in a conference call this week:The potential for copyright and patent infringement is...
- Tags: Patents, Microsoft, Linux, Licenses, General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Atlassian acquires Cenqua, drops .NET
- Atlassian, makers of the JIRA issue tracker and Confluence enterprise wiki, has acquired Cenqua, makers of the popular Clover code coverage tool and FishEye source repository viewer. Cenqua's products will remain separate products in the Atlassian family, developed by the same team, but now with additional resources and support...
- Tags: Programming, Java, General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- GPLv3 Myth #3: GPL forbids DRM
- In our continuing series on the latest version of the world's most popular and least understood free/open source license, today we look at a controversial subject: Digital Rights Management DRM. My colleague David Berlind has another name for DRM: Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection CRAP.Disclaimer: This information was culled from...
- Tags: Programming, Licenses, Linux, GPLv3 Myths, General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Clicker (widget)
- Just a simple Clicker like the one seen in the AXE commercial. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Commercial
- Software downloads 2007-06-29
- GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other software
- Now that the "Final Draft" of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) is out I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the least well understood provisions in the license. In part 1, we explored the notion of selling GPL software....
- Tags: Programming, Linux, Licenses, General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Movable Type becomes free again
- When I first got started blogging, I used a popular system called Movable Type. It was free, easy to install, and it worked well. At the time it was the system of choice for most bloggers. But then in May 2004, Six Apart, the owners of Movable Type, decided to...
- Tags: Licenses, General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Top 5 myths of GPLv3 dispelled (part 1)
- Now that the "Final Draft" of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) is out and we're 30 days away from the official published version, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the least well understood provisions in the license. These...
- Tags: Programming, Patents, Linux, Licenses, General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Dell Ubuntu Linux has arrived
- Late yesterday Dell opened the floodgates of its grand consumer Linux experiment by offering three systems with Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04 pre-installed. They are available for purchase now:The Dimension E520 N starts at $599 ($749 - $150 promotional discount), and includes an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (E4300), 1GB...
- Tags: Commercial, Community, Dell, General, Licenses, Linux
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Novell takes MS money, then stabs 'em in the back
- In the "turnabout is fair play" department, Novell announced today that it's partnering with the Electronic Frontier Foundation the people that brought you GPL in their effort to reform software patents worldwide. Novell will help the EFF with lobbying efforts, and contribute "significant resources" to EFF's Patent Busting project. Nat...
- Tags: Commercial, Community, General, Licenses, Linux, Microsoft, Patents, Programming
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Google Enterprise Search is serious business
- In a recent blog, Danna Bogatin wrote:Why can't Google make any serious money in Enterprise Search? ...Google does not have a winning Enterprise Search case. ...Google was not only the talk, but the joke, of the Enterprise town. ...From keynote information expert insights to blustery IT consultant pitches, Google was...
- Tags: Commercial, General, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Adobe keeps Flash, Flex close to the vest
- Adobe has announced that most of the Flex SDK will be open source starting with the "Moxie" version, due out later in 2007. Specifically, all of the components of the Flex SDK needed to create Flex applications, including the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript...
- Tags: Scripting, Programming, Licenses, Java, General, Eclipse, Community, Commercial, AJAX
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Andy Oliver: New JBoss model not the same as Fedora
- In 2003 Red Hat discontinued its popular Red Hat Linux distribution, replacing it with Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL for commercial users and Fedora for more casual users. Now the company is planning a change for JBoss, the highly successful application server it acquired for $420 million last year. While...
- Tags: Linux, Commercial, Licenses, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Sun and Canonical to distribute Java with Ubuntu Linux
- A complete Sun Java stack, including Java SE 6, GlassFish, JavaDB, and NetBeans, is now available with the latest release of Ubuntu v7.04 Feisty Fawn. Users can find it in the "multiverse" repository and install the packages just like any other Ubuntu programs, according to Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth."Last November...
- Tags: Sun, Licenses, Programming, NetBeans, Linux, Java, General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Michael Rudolph sheds more light on SourceForge Marketplace
- SourceForge is the worlds largest open source development web site, with over 1.5 million users and nearly 150,000 registered projects. Recently they started teasing developers with plans for SourceForge Marketplace, a new way for people to get service and support for all that software. Details of the plans are being...
- Tags: General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Oracle commits to Eclipse persistence project, joins board of directors
- EclipseCon 2007: In a surprise move, Oracle announced today it is donating its Java persistence framework, Oracle TopLink, to the Eclipse community under the Eclipse Public License. A new project called "EclipseLink" is expected to be formed to oversee development of the software, with Oracle at the helm.Additionally, Oracle will...
- Tags: Licenses, Community, EclipseCon 2007, Java, Commercial, General, Eclipse
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Eclipse Community Awards Winners Announced
- EclipseCon 2007: Congratulations to the winners and finalists of this years Eclipse Community Awards.Individual Award winners: Top Ambassador: Chris AniszczykTop Contributor: Kimberley Peter and Tom Schindl tieTop Committer: Ed MerksTop Newcomer Evangelist: Daniel MegertTechnology Award winners:Best Open Source RCP application: PSICATBest Commercial RCP application: TIBCO Business StudioBest Open Source Eclipse-based...
- Tags: EclipseCon 2007, General, Eclipse, Java, Commercial, Community
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Red Hat bets on Eclipse with new Ajax suite
- EclipseCon 2007: Red Hat and Exadel announced a new partnership today that will see all of Exadels products released as open source by the middle of this year. Hibernate and JBoss Seam founder Gavin King will "take a prominent role" in leading the direction of the new projects at JBoss.org....
- Tags: AJAX, Commercial, Community, Eclipse, EclipseCon 2007, General, Java, Licenses, Linux, Programming
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Microsoft to skip lucky Office 13, many users to skip 12 too
- With Microsoft Office 2007 (aka. Office 12) out the door, speculation has started about what the next version will have. Not so fast, says Microsoft, who would like us to focus on and buy currently shipping products. But as Paul Thurrott notes, "Apparently, Microsoft has forgotten how the enthusiast community...
- Tags: Microsoft, General, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- 768 cores ought to be enough for anybody
- Bill Gates is often quoted as saying "640K ought to be enough for anybody." He denies it, but at the time (c. 1981) 640K must have seemed like a vast amount of memory. Were in a similar situation today as dual- and quad-core processors are becoming mainstream. How will we...
- Tags: chip, Commercial, General, Java, processor, Programming
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
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