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Two Linux consortia band together

Two Linux consortia band togetherUntil all are oneit should help bring the masses to a culture with an easier to find and understand focal pointTwo Linux consortia band togetherAt least they got the name right now. It only took them how many years? OSDL did more to hurt free...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, online help, Linux, Linux consortia, distro

Discussion threads 2007-01-22

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Forbes rewrites the history of open source

Forbes rewrites the history of open sourceI guess it was a political articleYou just convinced me that the purpose of this article in Forbes being written was to score political points. Which makes its rewriting of history doubly-disgusting.Libertarian?I'm pretty sure the GPL is normally associated with socialism, not libertarianism. Libertarians...

Tags: open source, Forbes, libertarian, software

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

LiMo vows to fight on, debuts new mobile handsets from Motorola, NEC, Panasonic

The LiMo Foundation has no intention of fading away. At the launch of LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco today, the foundation announced the release of  several new Linux-based mobile handsets from Mototorola, NEC and Panasonic. The addition of these latest models -- including Motorola's...

Tags: Panasonic, LiMo Foundation, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Handset, Symbian Inc., NEC Corp., Motorola Inc., Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-08-04

Super+Friday+to+climax+Microsoft+Open+XML+push

Super+Friday+to+climax+Microsoft+Open+XML+pushMany standards are created by vendor consortia.Allows the vendors to coordinate and interoperate more effectively. That's a worthwhile goal.Having more than one standard can also be acceptable when a single standard saves neither money nor effort. Standards then have the purpose of providing necessary documentation.But of course an...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Blogging, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office, ISO

Discussion threads 2008-02-05

OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'

When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...

Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Microsoft bides its time with SOA

My colleague Dana Gardner observes in his most recent post that Microsoftis notably absent from the Service Component Architecture/Service Data Objects initiatives that the other major vendors are supporting.As Dana observes: "Microsoft will pursue its proprietary approach of baking pseudo-SOA into its operating system stack as long as it can."It...

Tags: Vendor Watch, General

Blog posts 2007-06-20

News to know: Enterprise mashups; Sun goes Intel; Linux groups merge

Notable headlines: Enterprise mashups get ready for prime-time. Sun is prepping to use Intel inside its x86 servers. Sun servers heading back to Intel chips.Apples 802.11n accounting conundrum.Storm Worm rages across the globe.Two Linux consortia band together. Apple to charge Mac OS X Tiger users for final Boot Camp release?Reining...

Tags: General, Enterprise Mashups

Blog posts 2007-01-22

TiVo goes mobile with new free service

TiVo goes mobile with new free serviceDRM GarbageThe system makes you pay 15-20 bucks for a one of three codecs that inherently support license management DRM to completely limit and track use of the files. If you doubt me, check what Microshaft's descriptions of the codec's support for file to...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, mobile, digital-rights management, TiVo Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-01-03