Rumours abounded a few weeks ago of a hoax after letters demanding payments of licence fees of up to $5000 for the use of the Linux trademark were sent to various Australian IT companies.
Well, it wasn’t a hoax, according to Linus lieutenant John “Maddog” Hall, who claimed that the policy shift was not simply […]
Here is an afterthought from an article in Forbes Magazine on Microsoft’s bad week with the worms:
In a final indignity, Linux activists wearing penguin suits crashed a Microsoft promotional party held at the municipal parliament house in Berlin, Germany. The protestors want the city government to use open source software, not the proprietary Windows operating […]
The DTI funded IECnet has announced a new initiative to push the advantages of grid computing to UK CIOs, predominantly through a new website at GridComputingNow.org. There’s more on the story at PublicTechnology.net.
From PCPro:
IBM has announced that it is contributing software to the Firefox Web browser to make it easier for users with visual and motor impairments to use the Web.
The code will enable the navigation of websites and Web pages with keystrokes rather than mouse clicks and will make it possible for pages to be automatically […]
TCO’s back with an article from the Linux side’s perennial thorn Laura DiDio of Yankee Group, arguing that most companies don’t have enough information to make an informed decision about their own IT costs, and therefore should stick with what they have. The piece contains some other assertions that have raised some eyebrows, including:
The biggest […]
This Friday, apparently.
BBC magazine has an article about the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt, including speculation on its historical significance.
Meanwhile, the self–same organisation has been implicated in a ploy to use Wikipedia as a tool for a viral ad campaign.
The owner of Slashdot, Sourceforge and other online jewels of the OS movement, is planning on creating an MSN–style conglomeration, according to The Register.
Good news everyone – two thirds of IT professionals expect their companies to get in on the OS act, and three quarters intend to do so. There’s no news on how these two populations overlap, but the numbers perhaps indicate that a few companies need to start talking to their techies a bit more.
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A few things to report from the Mozillaverse:
The fox’s market share slipped (gasp) slightly last month, according to Net Applications. Suggested reasons for the decline include Mozilla going commercial and the fact that we’re looking at the summer months, which are a poor usage indicator for most things except perhaps, as the Inquirer helpfully informs […]
Not sure why, but whoever writes the over–by–cricket report for the Ashes series down at The Guardian’s site seems to have a bit of a thing for open source, with several mentions of the Wikipedia and Firefox during the last test match. Possibly it is the bloggish set up of the reports, with the writer […]
Insurance company Lloyd’s is “close” to offering insurance protection from litigation concerning intellectual property and open source, according to The Register.
IBM has contributed some of their IP in order to help the development of open standards in the retail industry.
The OSDL, as you’ve probably heard, has announced the creation of a repository of open source […]
If you live in Suffolk or Essex, you may have the East Anglian Daily Times drop on your doormat every morning, and if so, you may have noticed an article entitled “How Source [sic] can reduce software costs”, the first in what promises to be a series .
How can we fight against this? Answers on a postcard.
That said, if they can’t even get the food right…
You may disagree with me, but what is the point of partially restricting the Wikipedia when it’s doing fine as it is?
It is according to The Independent anyway, where “Novell would like to teach the world to Linux”.
Air your grievances and give flight to your annoyance with IT vendors at the GripeWiki, a project set up by consumer advocate Ed Foster of the Gripe Log.
No, not that one, or that one, but the USA’s proposed new ambassador to the EU, one Boyden Gray (Wikipedia entry) and his ties to Microsoft. Gray lobbied for the company during their anti–trust fight in the US, and, with the EU currently trying to call the company to account over similar allegations and (of […]
As we observed a few days ago, there has been a certain reticence in Sun and IBM’s dealings with the open source community, particularly with regards to their own IP. Hewlett Packard’s “Vice President and general manager of the NonStop Enterprise Division, Open Source & Linux Organisation” (no kidding), Martin Fink, has called on the […]