Fox News doesn’t like Massachussets. The piece was written by one Jim Prendergast of the ominous sounding Americans for Technology Leadership, which is characterised by the SourceWatch wiki (definitely worth a read) as being “frequently described as a Microsoft front group” with numerous ties to the company.
Despite what Prendergast has to say, the open source […]
OSS powered paper, with a 99% reduction in power consumption, in case the cranking arm gets tired.
They’ve recommended Shibboleth, an open source content– and identity–management system, to help school’s securely share user identities for access to online learning recources, according to eGov.
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You probably already heard this, but here it is anyway: MIT Media Labs have announced designs for cheap, cheap laptops at less than $100 a throw, and a project to manufacture and distribute them to the world’s schoolkids. The laptops are powered by clockwork (as The Inq put it “crank powered solitaire for the developing […]
Australia’s Smart Office News relates some more bad news from Redmond that appeared in an extraordinary article in the Wall Street Journal detailing the complete breakdown of the original version of Longhorn.
The root of the problem with the initial version was the development process; Microsoft’s developers were used to a rather outmoded development model whereby […]
Forbes on IBM’s “software gambit”, The Seattle Post–Intelligencer looks at open source startups, The Minnesota Daily decries the wasteful IT bill at “the University”, (of Minnesota, I presume) and The Age talks some more about IBM.
“Grid” + “Wiki” = GridSiteWiki
You might like this. What I want to know is, when’s it going to land here?
Two sinners, actually. How’s this for unlikely – ever heard of Ko Hyun-jin? No, me neither, but he was the president of Microsoft Korea, and is now the president of the fabulously monikered KIPA, or Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency to you and me, an outfit pushing OS uptake over there. The Korea Times has […]
Auction house Bonham’s is to move to OSS, as is Matalan, whilst The Age reports on an electronics company making a u–turn, just eight months after moving from Windows to Linux.
Information Week has some thoughts on the reasons multinationals opt for open source in particular situations, and there’s more interesting stuff on Massachussets’s decision to […]
Should you have kids (and a spare seven grand per year burning a proverbial hole) then maybe you’d like to send them to The Mall School, a 300–pupil independent preparatory school in Richmond, which has just announced that it is to replace its aging Windows 2000 boxes with a Linux– based thin client network. The […]
Stephen J Marshall (@British Computing Society) thinks he knows what it is, whereas Dave Rosenberg (@Info World) thinks Stephen doesn’t know jack.
Should you wish to introduce anyone to OpenOffice, we have a couple of things you could point them to – journalists often seem to have a way with words. The Chicago Sun Times thinks it’s a “great alternative to Microsoft”, whilst OnLamp has a slightly more in depth look at “opening the potential” of the […]
The Liberty Alliance has called for the government to use open standards when implementing their ID card plan, according to Computer Weekly (although, crazily enough, Australia’s Computer World has more on the subject.)
New Hampshire’s Nashua Telegraph has called for more openness from their state government and their voting machines:
4. Openness is how New Hampshire government […]
Brazilian newspaper Planeta Porto Alegre reports on a campaign aimed at countering some of the influence multinational software companies have on various Latin American governments. It also relates various backdoor shenanigans and “weird” coincidences (for example, the Ecuadorian representative at a recent tech conference was a lawyer for Microsoft not long ago – what are […]
I’m sure all of you know how pleasant yet time–consuming a diversion the Wikipedia and Google Maps can be. Well, now you can waste your time messing about with both at once with the PlaceOPedia — Ronseal-esque slogan: “Connecting Wikipedia articles with their location” — which utilises the Google Maps interface. I just spent a […]
From Wireless Week:
Ask any handyman. If you want to build something, you have to have good tools. That’s at the heart of Nokia’s announcement today that it has joined the open source association called the Eclipse Foundation to help it develop tools to design mobile applications.
Nokia, as a strategic developer and board member, is the […]
“Power to the people” through the medium of open source, says the FT, whereas OpenDemocracy thinks we’re not there yet, but that the open source model may illuminate the path to true democratic power.
It was suggested a few months ago that Microsoft’s anti–pirate strategy — withholding non–security patches unless you bought a licence — might backfire on them it could make users more inclined to look at free alternatives. Now, Microsoft has provoked ire with an announcement that Vista “Enterprise Edition” will only be available to customers who […]