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- Mono-mania: It's risky business
- M$ must give away its patentsIf M$ want to have its technolgies adopted by FOSS it must give up all its patents and GPLed the code.Until then we must stay away from any code that resembles M$ technologies and support Stallman and FSF in their fight against software tirany.RE: Mono-mania:...
- Tags: .NET, C#, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Development tools, Operating systems, Programming languages, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mono, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Linux-Windows gap to remain for five years
- In other words...This only confirms what we have been saying for sometime now.Desktop Linux lags behinds Windows And Mac for these facts alone, but the biggest one is mainstream application software compatibility which so far, were you to look at system requirements would only support Windows and Mac... There are...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Ubuntu, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.
- Show me the innovation StallmanWhile Microsoft pushes forward software technology and produces modern software, open source continues to copy the trailing edge of the innovators. Want an Office97 copy? Want a media player that works on all platforms but just not as well as Windows Media Player, want...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Jason, F/OSS, Stallman, software
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.
- Richard M. Stallman RMS the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a "Traitor" for joining the Board of Directors of Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation as well as for his creation of the Microsoft .NET-compatible Mono software development...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Free Software Foundation, GNOME, Microsoft Corp., Richard Stallman, Miguel De Icaza, Mono Framework, Genie, Linux, Open Source, C#, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Will Microsoft promise split the open source movement
- Will Microsoft promise split the open source movementCan't change the spots on a Leopard's back.Besides, I just checked my NYS Driver's License for my date of birth--I wasn't born yesterday.So Linux Folks, don't touch Mono with a barge pole!Sorry Miguel, you are a creative spirit, but you've made your bed.Sleep...
- Tags: .NET, Development tools, open source, Mono, Miguel, ECMA, open source movement, KDE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- News to know: Firefox 3.5; Lenovo; Blackberry Tour; Chambers
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Benchmarking Firefox 3.5 Testing Firefox 3.5 ... mind your add-ons! Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.5 released, more...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?
- Stallman's fear is that Microsoft will use its software patents to force open source C# implementations, and applications, underground. Any move toward bringing C#, which Microsoft developed and Mono, which Microsoft supports, into the center of the Linux community must therefore be resisted. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Stallman, C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Open Source Haggadah, chapter 2
- Last Passover, I spoke of the Commandments that companies should follow in order to be good Open Source citizens. Also read: Open Source Commandments I Also read: Open Source Commandments II My, what a difference a year makes -- or maybe...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Richard Koman, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Open Source, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Is Linux only for the poor?
- Is Linux only for the poor?Cost could be a reason to switch to Linux.But it wouldn't necessarily be the right one. If a district switched to Linux and Open Source in times of tight budgets would they switch back in times of plenty? Just because Linux is free...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-03-22
- Are vendors vital to open source?
- Are vendors vital to open source?Are vendors vital to open source?LOL, that is the best shirt ever! The dude abides!Two "commercial" Linux distributions: Red Hat and SuSEOne of the reasons Microsoft assisted SuSE sales was to assure that Red Hat did not gain an effective monopoly on commercial Linux.If...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, dude, open source, Linux, GNU
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- WSUS users get a surprise: Windows 7 client
- WSUS users get a surprise: Windows 7 clientThis is the evidence that Windows 7 is the code name for Vista SP2if WSUS shown Windows7, this is the evidence that Windows 7 is the code name for Vista SP2, and so each Vista user will have it for free! Thank you...
- Tags: Blogging, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Microsoft Windows, blog, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- The Linux Census: No one entity owns the kernel
- The Linux Census: No one entity owns the kernelCollaboration of large corporations.Good to see confirmation that even the kernel is largely about large corporations reducing staff by formal or informal cooperation to make the software respond to business needs.Or does someone think that these companies are taking a hobbyist's interest...
- Tags: kernel, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Lanier's attack on open source religion
- Lanier's attack on open source religionWrongnessDo you mean "wrong" as in mistaken, or "wrong" as in immoral? I believe the former, but the belief of Richard Stallman and others that the free software model, as defined by Stallman, is the only legitimate development model has had many positive effects;...
- Tags: open source, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2007-12-31
- Microsoft to build an 'Emacs.Net' text editor
- Microsoft to build an 'Emacs.Net' text editorIts a terminal-based multifunction text editorI think it is going to be advanced text editor which is extendable.What Microsoft really lack is a decent text editor that can be run inside the four wall of the terminal console/Command Prompt. As sysadmin do more and...
- Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Notepad, Emacs.Net, EMACS, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-31
- Leopards and development platform strategies
- As any self-respecting geeks already knows (well, at least those who a) use Macs or b) keep up to date on technology news), Leopard, a.k.a. Mac OS X 10.5, the latest update to Apple's Mac OS operating system, was released this past weekend, and appears to have done quite well....
- Tags: Strategy, Apple Inc., Leopard, Siracusa, Objective-C, Objective-C Runtime, C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- When do you drop your closed source vendor?
- When do you drop your closed source vendor?Thats very much the long and short of it.Most people get enough quality out of their mp3s to not care about Ogg or FLAC while the iPod is one of the few devices on which Rockbox actually [i]de[/i]creases the battery life so that's...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Mandriva, source company, Linux, open source, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Sugar sweet for GPLv3
- The big news today is that SugarCRM has bowed to community pressure and will release the next version of its CRM software under an OSI-approved license.The bigger news may be the identity of the license, GPLv3.Currently Sugar uses a version of the Mozilla Public License, adding a non-standard "attribution" requirement...
- Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, resellers, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications, GPL
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Microsoft earnings hit target; client, business divisions shine
- Microsoft earnings hit target; client, business divisions shinehere!http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/10/09/accounting_masterclass_how_cisco/Can't keep a great company down!;-)M$ is fudging the numbers!It's common practice that the M$ mobsters lie and spread FUD.The only statement that holds water was:"And the entertainment and devices unit had revenue of $1.16 billion and a loss of $1.2 billion."So much...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, OPEN SOURCE, Financial accounting, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Linux, tax
- Discussion threads 2007-07-19
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