Judging this weird story from The Builder isn’t possible right now as the key part is said to be at
http://www.linuxpersonas.com/
whose sole content currently is the message
This material is being updated and will be made available to Microsoft partners shortly.
The Boston Globe tells the unlikely tale of
a bunch of Danes who seem to have missed the meeting that made clear this was just a metaphor. “Free as in free software,” they explained when rolling out Free Beer, or, as their website now says, “Free as in free speech.”
We can think of nothing to add to this piece from The Wall Street Journal!
Here is our wackiest story yet!
WHAT: Members of Oregon State University’s Linux Users Group have a history of paying homage to Firefox, a free Internet browser produced by Mozilla. OSU’s open source lab stores the servers for Firefox. In August, the student group created a crop circle near Amity to commemorate Firefox’s 200 millionth download. […]
… this before it disappears, though we have also found it here and here. The Inq has also stumbled across it.
Should you wish for an excuse to play with Lego again, we may have just found it for you. The company is said to be “days away” from announcing that it is to open the source code - no word on which license yet - for its MindStorm NXT robots.
*Update - there’s some more details […]
Okay, this is just wacky:
Here’s what happened. A young man identifying himself as Caspian James Crichton-Stuart IV, 5th Duke of Cleveland, visited Stillwater Area High School in Minnesota three times trying to enroll as a transfer student. He had a “spot on” English accent and insisted on being called “your grace.” Students at the school […]
To the list of people hijacking the term open source and apply it to something completely unsuitable in order to gain extra kudos - Open Source Media (now Pajamas Media once again) and the self-proclaimed open source advertising agency Ad Candy spring to mind - we can now add food technologist Steve Gundrum and “celebrity […]
If you’ve got time, this amused me - are binary viruses from outer space a Linux pandemic waiting to happen? Is the open source development model fundamentally vulnerable to tampering from beyond the stars? Was the free software movement founded by ET? Inspired by a daffy article from Teh Grauniad.
Everybody’s talking about it, but what is it actually like? LXer has some thoughts.
From Computer World (via LinuxWorld) - It’s unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux:
The next time Bill Gates sends an e-mail through Microsoft’s shiny new Wireless LAN it will be passed through a behind-the-scenes Linux-based network appliance.
Earlier this year Microsoft and Aruba Networks jointly announced the two companies will work to replace Microsoft’s existing Cisco wireless […]