Richard Stallman Talks on Copyright vs The People
"Richard M. Stallman recently gave a talk entitled Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club. The talk looks at the origin of…
The pen is mightier than the FUD
"A few days ago Rob Enderle proclaimed that Open Source and Linux are losing momentum, without any evidence to back this up and despite that IDC and Gartner are saying the exact opposite. The FOSS…
Linux Expert: Microsoft Is Throwing Money Away
Redmond would have to "sue its customers" to pursue its contention that Linux infringes on Microsoft's patents -- an unlikely scenario.
Linux Expert: Microsoft Is Throwing Money Away.
Illegal Codecs Put Me Off Linux
Linux has a number of really strong points that go beyond the price (reliability, ease of use and low hardware requirements to name but a few), but the operating system falls short when it comes…
Ubuntu Gutsy Tribe 3 ALPHA Released
Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features. Note: This is still an alpha release. Do not install…
Open Source -- Then and Now
"Few have been closer to the day-to-day processes involved in open sourcing the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) than Ray Gans, a manager at Sun Microsystems with a long history of…
Acronis Teams with Novell
Acronis, Inc., a technological leader in storage management software, announced it is a Silver Technology Partner with Novell and is committed to the development and delivery of technology…
When Open Source is the Holy Hand Grenade
"In our recent conversation with Danese Cooper, she brought up how open source is sometimes used as a market disrupter. If I understood her correctly, there are times where competitors are locked…
HP and MIT Team Up On Open Source Archiving
HP and the MIT Libraries today announced the formation of the DSpace Foundation, a non-profit organization that will provide support to the growing community of institutions that use DSpace, an…
OpenSolaris ZFS vs. Linux ext3 RAID5
"I asked Dan McClary for a big favor recently: use his general UNIX knowledge and graduate-level statistics voodoo to produce a report highlighting performance differences between two different OS…