Nvu 1.0 (pronounced N-view) has just been released. Along the lines of Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia’s DreamWeaver, the programme aids web design and development without requiring HTML programming skills of the user, and runs with Windows, Linux and OSX.
There’s a press release at Yahoo if you’re into that sort of thing.
From TechWorld:
Sun Microsystems is scaling back its desktop Linux plans, the company said at JavaOne this week.
The decision means that Sun’s Java Desktop System (JDS) will in future be marketed less as a Linux platform and more for Solaris and Sun Ray installations aimed at developers, said John Loiacono, Sun’s executive vice-president of software, at […]
According to a new report by analysts IDC, concerns about intellectual property infringement suits amongst IT professionals are no longer confined to OSS deployments. This is from Continuity Central:
A new study by IDC highlights the impacts of an intellectual property indemnification legal battle on companies.
According to a newly released IDC survey of 200 United States-based […]
Both Novell and Red Hat have recently announced that they are to expand their Linux education and certification programs.
From ZDNet on Red Hat’s announcement:
The Linux firm is fighting the claim that there are few open source training programmes.
Open source company Red Hat is to extend its skills training programme into academic institutions in Europe, the […]
The Norwegian government, through Minister for Modernisation Morton Andreas Meyer, is asking all public sector institutions to have an open source strategy ready by 2006. He described proprietary formats as “no longer acceptable” and announced that the current statement would be the last available through Microsoft’s Media Player. He challenged Redmond to “open up or […]
Richard Stallman’s article in The Guardian on software patents last week has triggered some lively responses in this week’s edition of their “Online” IT supplement.
IP attorney Tom Ewing has penned this slightly hysterical piece defending the proposed legislation:
Patents for software inventions have existed in Europe for years, and the legal requirements are no different than […]
Unless you’ve been hiding under the proverbial rock for the last week or so, you’ll have heard about the US Supreme Court’s decision on Grokster and Morpheus. Corante.com has a post looking at the possible legal implications of the decision for BitTorrent, software that achieves similar ends but is open source whilst Grokster is proprietary.
Up […]
Bhutanese news site Kuensel Online has an article about the Wikipedia, including an invitation for readers to contribute to a new edition in their native tongue:
A Dzongkha edition of Wikipedia?
Currently the site has 146 Wikipedias including one in Dzongkha (Wikipedia). The Dzongkha Wikipedia, however, has no actual content apart from the main page that introduces […]
From eGov Monitor:
The Cabinet Office’s Central Sponsor for Information Assurance, which co-ordinates information security projects across government, is investigating applications based around a highly secure open source operating system.
The proof-of-concept systems being developed by the CSIA will use security enhanced Linux to support remote working and web services.
Ministers were prompted to disclose details of the […]
What is thought to be the world’s cheapest PC is ready to be manufactured by a small Indian company called Encore in partnership with India’s federal government at around $200 a throw, and it is to be powered by open source software. The Simputer is only around the size and weight of a paperback book […]
Linux Today and Apple Matters have a partnered and ongoing debate about the future of desktop Linux, sparked off by the opinions of a Mac user writing on a site called 2 guys, a Mac and a website.
Althought the article propagats some fallacies, such as the continuing myth that Linux development is amateur hour and […]
The Globe has a profile of software pioneer Mitch Kapor, including a look at his latest project which “aims to do for e-mail and calendar functions what Firefox did for Web browsing”.
The online pawn–shop has joined the ranks of companies wanting to reap the benefits of the open source development model. The company is seeking to improve its search and access software with the help of external developers.
The following sites have the story:
MacWorld
Beta News
Information Week
Internet News
The issue of EU software patents is back with the latest round of debates, ammendments, opinions, recriminations, accusations, demonstrations and balloon-related stunts hitting the headlines.
“Patent Absurdity” – The Guardian. A Richard Stallman-penned diatribe against locking up innovation with patents.
“Heated demonstrations precede Europe’s vote on software patents” – EE Times. Around 250 demonstrators descended on MEPs […]
From Channel Register:
Scottish email management vendor Logicalware claims to be the first UK open source developer to grab a slice of venture capital funding.
The Sigma Innovation Fund and former Demon Internet director and entrepreneur Bill Dobbie have pumped £300,000 into Logicalware.
Logicalware’s Mail Manager product is offered as a hosted service, with the company claiming it […]
According to a survey by SciVisum, as many as 1 in 10 UK-based sites contain non-standard code which does not work properly in Firefox. Guilty parties include luminaries such as Odeon.co.uk and JobCentre.gov.uk, the latter despite the UK government’s drive to implement W3C standards on its web content.
The story has been all over the place […]
This is from business rag Forbes:
NEW YORK - Marc Fleury is shocked–shocked!–that IBM would use the same tactics to attack him that he’s been using to attack IBM.
“Frankly, it leaves us scratching our heads,” he says.
For the past two years Fleury’s company, Atlanta, Ga.-based JBoss, has been stealing business from IBM by giving away a […]
From VNUNet:
The UK government is backing a National Computing Centre (NCC) test laboratory that aims to prove the viability of open source software applications and configurations for public sector organisations.
The Open Source Laboratory forms part of the Open Source Academy, a national project funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as part of […]
You may remember the post about the LA Times experiment with wikitorials – user editable editorials – which started on Sunday and er… ended on Sunday.
This is from The Guardian:
It was the boldest of innovations. A chance for the mainstream media to strike back against the upstarts of the online world. On Friday the Los […]
From ZDNet:
Citing security concerns, better support and budgetary concerns, the Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency has started a massive open source rollout
The South Korean government is rolling out a home-grown open source platform to 10,000 schools in the country.
The project, dubbed the New Education Information System (NEIS), is built on a Korean-developed version of Linux […]