Android devices will now allow users to post articles on their Wordpress blogs through the newly released Wordpress for Android app.

The Microsoft Office productivity suite has risen to become the dominant application of its type for business IT management. But there are open source office productivity suites available that may provide a suitable alternative to Office.

Sourceforge.net provides ability to move export control (relating to US laws) regulations to project administrator's hands. This can be used to move responsibility about providing access for ``baneed'' countries from themselves to projects leadership.

If you know software programming well enough to write a new word processor with a secret file format, do it now, put it on sale and price it one million Euro per seat. Should that law be approved, you'll just have to send
Christmas greetings to all Italian Public Administrations to force them to buy your software.

Wherein your humble author attempts a quick and dirty rundown of the key differences between the software license covering Symbian’s new open OS and the GNU General Public License that’s served the Linux community for many years.
Note that much of what follows has been cobbled together from Wikipedia pages, so feel free to enlighten and/or correct in the comments below this post…

Announced today the release of Openoffice3.2 RC5, this is the 5TH release candidate of openoffice.org3.2 and the first RC under Oracle logo. The final release of Openoffice 3.2 was planned for XX January 2010.

After more than four years at Alfresco, I have joined Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, as its chief operating officer.

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) issued a call for volunteers to assist in the development of its world leading Linux certification program (http://www.lpi.org). Volunteers are sought for participation in a Job Task Analysis (JTA) survey for the organization's new specialty exam LPI-304 (High Availability and Virtualization).