Three companies have announced they are to open up their stuff, each for rather different reasons. Xara, creators of graphic design software, have announced that they are to port their software onto Mac and Linux, and will shortly open up their code in order to do so.
IBM, meanwhile, has decided to donate part of it’s […]
Grisoft has predicted that it is “only a matter of time” before Linux is hit by a major virus as its popularity grows. Sound familiar?
“Church volunteer quells IT chaos with Linux”
A letter writer defends OSS in the Malaysian Star
South Africans object to their government cosying up with Microsoft
Fox New pubishes some of the letters it recieved oveer that column.
The UK Linux and Open Source Awards were held last week - the winners can be found here - and the news has now had chance to percolate down into the media. IC Wales congratulates the Swansea-based CGram for scooping the gong for best business award - the website was already behing the company with […]
Microsoft has settled it’s “last major anti-trust suit” [in America - it still has to contend with the EU] with a $761 million payout to Real Networks. There’s some positive reaction over at The New York Times but not so upbeat words from CNet.
JBoss is under fire from one of it’s co-founders for supposedly going […]
“The most important development for the humanities this century may prove to be Wikipedia” – so says The National Endowment for the Humanities over in Washington D.C. Other Wikipedia stuff includes profile over at The Age and some interesting comments from Jimmy Wales on “ten things that will be free” over at World Changing.
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New York’s SysCon has an interview with Sun’s head of JDE on the subject. Two Microsoft representatives have played down the threat from OpenOffice in the media; the company’s number one in Scotland, Raymond O’Hare talked to The Scotsman and their director in charge of MS Office had this to say to reporters in Holland. […]
Two stories have been making light of the Microsoft / Linux thing — The Internation Herald Tribune observed that Steve Ballmer was “dining in [the] Linux city” of Munich, and Stuff New Zealand pointed out that the forthcoming movie based on Microsoft’s Halo game will have its inevitably vast amount of special effects produced using […]
Read about it at CiviBlog
Not wanting to play into the nerd stereotype, the first feature length movie to appear under the Creative Commons licence is, ahem, a Star Trek spoof, now available for download at StarWreck.com.
The Register takes note of its successful release, as does the UK’s ADSL Guide, whereas Reuters tries to spoil the fun by implying […]
The headline about sums it up; if you want to read more, it’s reported at Techworld, The Inq and What PC.
A draft proposal for the UN’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is to include a commitment to promote FOSS and open standards, according to the IP-watch blog.
At Forbes and TechNewsWorld.
Dell has started shipping a computer aimed at open source users that comes with no operating system installed on the machine, but with a copy FreeDOS chucked in as a panacea to Microsoft, apparently. The development has drawn praise from OSS fanatics The Reg already has complaints about the “grudging” way the company is selling […]
Microsoft has lost it’s bid to patent two aspects of the FAT system, a move that, if successful, would have led to them claiming millions from Linux vendors (there’s also Computer Weekly on the case. Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu, speaking at LinuxWorld in London, (hands up if you were there) expressed the opinion that Microsoft […]
Google and Sun have announced a deal to cross–promote some of each other’s software including, importantly, OpenOffice. Sun will offer Google’s toolbar as an optional add–on for users downloading their software, whilst Google will “explore opportunities” to promote Sun’s products, especially Java, and to help distibute OOo.
I’m sure you already heard about it, but here’s […]
It’s been a while since we mentioned Firefox, but there’s been a few interesting bits and pieces today.
Mozilla’s Gervase Markham has been given some space in The Times to talk about open source software, freedom and a certain browser.
BBC News has some thoughts on liability in the world of software. Surprisingly, despite recognising that being […]
That article we blogged a couple of days ago caused quite a stir, and Fox News have since been forced to offer an apology for not mentioning that the author was a full–on shill, but not for the fact that such blatant propaganda was allowed on their site. LXer also has a response to the […]
ComputerBusinessReview claims (it’s news to me) that’s where the term “wiki” comes from – the Wikipedia (where else?) claims it’s a backronym – in an article about SocialText, a company working on Wiki–esque software, and their recent investment from SAP Ventures. Also of interest is the company’s recent recruitment of Jimmy Wales to their board […]