Looking at the w3school OS Statistics it shows that linux has been pretty much stable in its usage for the last couple of years. Does this mean that us Linux fanboyz are all talk and no action? If Linux has stabilised in its adoption then where are all the new users? Windows Vista has been increasing rapidly and is just about to surpass Linux
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Greens don't accept Berlin 'nein' to open source
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The Green Party is accusing the Berlin city government of lacking a coherent IT strategy and thus not being in a position to adequately judge the merits of open source software.
Read more »Will Linux succeed on the personal desktop
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The biggest obstacle Linux faces in winning new users is the install process. Aside from specialty resellers like system76, personal computers preloaded with Linux are virtually non-existent. Or was, at least: Dell now offers Ubuntu on both desktops and laptops (www.dell.com/open).
Read more »Hans Reiser: Once a Linux Visionary, Now Accused of Murder
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Hans Reiser is waiting for me, standing on the other side of an imitation-wood table. The room is small, the concrete walls bare. A guard locks the steel door from the outside. There is no sound. Reiser is wearing the red jumpsuit of a prisoner in solitary confinement, though he has been allowed to meet with me in this chilly visiting room.
Read more »New Zealand honors Open Source with awards
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On Oct. 17, New Zealand honors those who make positive contributions to Open Source by presenting the first New Zealand Open Source Awards.
The event, to be held in Wellington, is being spearheaded by Catalyst IT, New Zealand's largest open source provider, and the New Zealand Open Source Society.
Read more »Open source email is the future
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According to Loura DiDio, Yankee analyst and author of the 2007 Global Server Hardware and Server OS Survey, 23 percent of survey respondents intend to migrate away from Exchange Server and adopt an alternative Linux or Open Source email and messaging distribution platform in the next 12 to 18 months.
Read more »On Open Source Dying...
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Let me make it clear for you Michael Hickins of Eweek. Your Article "Is Open Source Dying?" doesn’t even make it into the outer ring of the target for facts. If you were trying to shoot an arrow into the air with this article, you’d miss.
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Roads to the GPL
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""They give back all extensions they made so as to help EMACS improve. I called this arrangement 'the EMACS commune'""
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Little red hens of open source CRM
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When we last left our story, Michael Tiemann of the OSI had decided to police the term “open source” and write some CRM companies out. There comes now another e-mail, this time from the folks at Centric CRM. They have gotten wind of the controversy and want to respond.
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No more Mr. Open Source Nice Guy
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For many years, the term "open source" has been subject to abuse. Despite efforts by the OSI (Open Source Initiative) to trademark the phrase, the USPTO (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) claimed the phrase was too generic to be trademarked, thereby weakening efforts to guard against its improper usage, according to Danese Cooper, secretary and treasurer of the OSI board.
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Gubuntu- Google and Linux
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"Gubuntu, Glinux or Ginux could all be worthy names if Google were to seriously consider entering the platform battle. A more united and professional Linux front headed by a behemoth such as Google could help Linux achieve a mainstream market."
Read more »Open Source Software in Education
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"I believe it's important to emphasize to all education technology people (or anyone else, for that matter) that they should not view open source simply as a cheap replacement for something else."
Read more »Schwartz Extends Olive Branch to Linux
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"It all started last Tuesday, when yet another debate on the merits of applying the upcoming General Public License (GPL) version 3 to the Linux kernel was raised — again — on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML)."
Read more »The Open Source CEO Interview Series
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Okay, this is interviews with a range of people. I've put the linux today link in because there are LOTS of them and I didn't want to submit them all separately!
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The meme that open source does not innovate
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There seems to be a new meme out there among the proprietary set. Open source doesn’t innovate.
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