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Google playing proprietary games with open source?

Google playing proprietary games with open source?I'm pretty sure a company with ......a $200 billion market cap and a 50 to 1 price to earnings ratio doesn't need your advice.Just because I write a program for LINUX...Doesn't mean I must subjugate it to an open source license. As someone who...

Tags: JCP, GNU/Linux, game, open source, Google Inc., market capitalization, proprietary game

Discussion threads 2007-11-13

'Green IT': are we missing the bigger picture?

'Green IT': are we missing the bigger picture?RE: Green IT': are we missing the bigger picture?courtesy: cjm LTWhy should anyone feel defensive about "being cheap?" America and Americans are in debt to the eyeballs and have no savings because we spend the money as fast as we get it and...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, computer hardware, GNU/Linux, fossil fuel, hardware, Microsoft Windows, Green IT, greenhouse gas

Discussion threads 2007-10-11

Is Linux innovative?

Is Linux innovative?"innovation" - bah!Just what IS innovation? I always thought that innovation is the poor stepchild to invention - i.e. If you aren't good enough to invent something new, maybe you can fiddle with something existing to "improve" it. Henry Ford had his "campouts" with Thomas Edison (and other...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., innovation, LINUX IS, Linux, GNU/Linux

Discussion threads 2007-09-28

Recycling apathy doesn't bode well for green tech habits

Recycling apathy doesn't bode well for green tech habitsWindows contributes to global climate changeWhy should anyone feel defensive about "being cheap?"America and Americans are in debt to the eyeballs and have no savings because we spend the money as fast as we get it and then we borrow so we...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, computer hardware, GNU/Linux, fossil fuel, hardware, Microsoft Windows, global climate change, greenhouse gas, climate change, green technology

Discussion threads 2007-09-04

Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source

Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as sourceWindows contributes to global climate change#courtesy of: cjm LTWhy should anyone feel defensive about "being cheap?"America and Americans are in debt to the eyeballs and have no savings because we spend the money as fast as we get it and then we...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, computer hardware, fossil fuel, GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, hardware, Gutmann, global climate change

Discussion threads 2007-09-01

Linux Foundation cynics ask merger or takeover?

Linux Foundation cynics ask merger or takeover?FSF not involvedThe OSDL and the Free Standards Group group merged, not OSDL and FSF. Stallman would not like this post! :-)HUH?I was wondering what Dana was talking about.The Free Standards Group is involved with LSB. The merger is presumed to promote common standards...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, GNU/Linux, open source, Linux, IBM Corp., Free Software Foundation, merger, Free Standards Group

Discussion threads 2007-01-22

Microsoft patches zero-day Windows Media flaw

Microsoft patches zero-day Windows Media flawSide affect of DRM?Is this why a media player gets a higher priority than an office productivity app? Who doesn't see this as Microsoft placing the interest of their customers behind the interest of the media conglomerates? Amazing.-MikeThe same thing happeneda couple of...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Microsoft Word, Patches, Apple Inc., patch management, Back-up, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, flaw, GNU/Linux, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-12-12

Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" alpha (Ubuntu 7.04 )

Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" alpha (Ubuntu 7.04 )VersionAn article on a finished version, Like 6.10 Edgy Elf would be much more useful than a review of an alph version.UbuntuThis free OS is pretty good & the appearance is also nice. For a free OS like this one, actually there is...

Tags: UNIX, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, MSN, GNU/Linux, OS9, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.04, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2006-12-11

Good news for Linux: Microsoft, Novell pact in trouble

David Berlind is reporting that all is not well in what Dana Gardner called the "Fox marries chicken" deal between Microsoft and Novell earlier this month.This is a good thing, say many GNU/Linux supporters.[poll=8] Free software supporters are already working to undercut the deal, which brought Novell several hundred million...

Tags: Linux, GNU/Linux, General, Licenses, Patents, Community, Microsoft, Programming

Blog posts 2006-11-22

Flash Player 9 Beta for Linux is available

Just got word from Mike that the Flash Player 9 beta is now available on Adobe Labs.Update: I just saw that Tinic Uro has a great post about the release. His intro: To quote someone well known, hell froze over and we finally released a beta of the GNU/Linux version...

Tags: Flash, GNU/Linux

Blog posts 2006-10-18

gnu/linux distros get OK to distribute Java

Here in San Francisco, as I returned to my hotel from dinner with Redmonk's James Governor last evening, I bumped into Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phiipps who himself was just fresh off a flight from DebConf 6 Debian Conference in Oaxtepec, Mexico where, because of that event's coincidental...

Tags: Java

Blog posts 2006-05-16

GPL, not Linux violations found by Welte

GPL, not Linux violations found by WelteHow about Linux-GNU?GNU never caught on as a "marketing term" (probably the image of Stallman didn't help). Everyone flocks to the word "Linux", so lets call it Linux-GNU!Nah, just LinuxLinux, or a Linux distribution. Whilst Stallman wants his place in the sun (and probably...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, kernel, GNU/Linux system, GNU/Linux, Linux, GPL

Discussion threads 2005-03-17

Don't call this blog open source

Peter Brown is the new executive director of the Free Software Foundation. In the first of what I hope will be many interviews with ZDNet, he asks that we change the name of this blog:Open Source is a term that was created to mask the ideals of Software Freedom established...

Tags: software, GNU/Linux

Blog posts 2005-02-18

Group aims to smooth kinks out of Linux

Group aims to smooth kinks out of LinuxLSB, or not to be, THAT is the question.Notice how Debian is nowhere to be seen? That's because they are hard at work creating a NON-standard fork of Linux. I'm glad to see that the smaller Linux distros are teaming with number 3...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, GNU/Linux, Debian, Linsux, Mandrake, Linux, LSB, kink

Discussion threads 2004-11-17

A Quality-of-Service Enhanced Socket API in gnu/linux

With the increase in available network bandwidth and reduction in network latency, more emphasis has been placed on end-host QoS to provide quality of service guarantees for distributed real-time applications, such as video streaming servers, video conferencing applications, and VoIP applications. End-host QoS requires support from the underlying Operating System...

Tags: QoS, Network, API, GNU/Linux, Networking

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Putting the XP into the OLPC

So, Microsoft has managed to get in on the OLPC bandwagon and put XP in front of millions of eyeballs in the developing world. But is this move about the children's education, or it is about recruiting more Windows users. What's important to note is that Microsoft...

Tags: Team, One Laptop Per Child Project, Team Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-16

WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too

Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrisy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...

Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Open Source in 2013

<satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...

Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?

The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, a little choice isn't going to kill anybody. In fact, choice is good. And if some poor...

Tags: Operating System, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, XP Screen, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments

As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past month. Stonesoft is one of those companies. Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect, and Greg Mead, Solutions Architect, both of Stonesoft,...

Tags: Network, Environment, Stonesoft, Stonegate Management Center, Security, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-16