Ballmer looks to be coked out of his brain and high as a kite on laughing gas as he rocks along with the.....Tweet Choir(??).....at his, hopefully, final CES.
Read more »Microsoft CEO crashes and burns in final CES keynote
European IT authorities want better OOXML in Libre/OpenOffice
OOXML is a topic that revives many bitter memories for the Free Software Community. Should any semi-official body be attempting to force it on us, now?
Read more »Apple partners with patent troll Digitude Innovations — and wow, what a deal
In a clever deal that effectively gives Apple immunity from attack by the troll, Apple agreed to some cross-licensing deals that gave Digitude the ammunition for a heavy attack against Apple’s rivals.
Read more »DRM-Free 2011 Holiday Buying Guide
What to buy and what to avoid for a truly DRM-Free Christmas. Add your own suggestions to the list.
Read more »Government puts faith in Trustworthy Computing (thereby declaring war against Earth)
[Trusted Computing, of which secure boot is a component, hurts the environment and inhabitants of earth because it denies old computers the possibility of installing GNU/Linux and hastens their fate as e-wastes.] The UK government will emphasise the pivotal role of trusted computing in its upcoming cyber security strategy [thereby declaring war against earth].
Read more »Linux Licensing in Conflict with Secure Boot Support
In other words, making Linux boot loaders work with secure boot would require breaking their licensing requirements, and arguably the spirit of Free Open Source Software as well.
Read more »Microsoft signs 'legal covenant' with Chinese Linux vendor
Microsoft demonstrates how much times have changed by reprising its 'Novell' type of caper in China.
Read more »Progress
In true open source fashion, the community debates the most important issue of the day
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678775
I for one, think we should remove the kernel version number from dmesg output. I mean, it's changing all the time anyways.
Read more »Microsoft: Cloud need only be open surface, not open source
Gianugo Rabellino gives a refresher course into the cloudy status of current Microsoft proprietary reasoning: just give us the dough!
Read more »The FOSS fakery problem
When someone searches for OpenOffice, Firefox, VLC or any other popular open source package on the internet, are they necessarily going to get the genuine article?
Read more »SUSE & Patent FUD: Who Do We Boycott Now?
Now that Microsoft and SUSE have announced they plan to continue sleeping together, I wonder if the folks at Techrights are rethinking their plans to pull the plug on Boycott Novell?
Read more »Linux Professional Institute Joins ITCC Web-based Credential
The LPI gets into very bad company and heads off to play in a proprietary corporate playground.
Read more »Attachmate lays off Mono employees
Today Attachmate laid off an unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that were working on the open source Mono project.
Read more »The Myth of Openness
In a world of technology openness is often treated as an imperative, something that has to be preserved or promoted as something inherently good. I’ve been a long time believer in this idea myself, but as I watch the evolution of technology I’m beginning to question its value and underpinnings. What exactly is it that makes openness worthy of a pedestal it’s often being put on?
Read more »Adobe Logic (of Forced Upgrade Cycle)
This, as we've argued, is not a defect of the Adobe business model, it is the business model. The fact that Adobe won’t maintain compatibility across versions for such basic functionality seems hugely anti-consumer, but obviously very good business.
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