The Microsoft boosters spread GNU/Linux FUD even upon the release of Firefox 3.6 while Novell and Microsoft groom another journalist for coverage of their joint products and glorification of their patent deal
Read more »Messages from the Thought Police (Microsoft/Novell)
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Licensing Woes and Bullying: the Sad Reality of Proprietary Software
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Two new items which shed light on the pains of proprietary software, which is as rigid as a microchip
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opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM Version 1.4 Release Candidate Available
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The Release Candidate for opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM Version 1.4 is now available for download from sourceforge.net
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Google's Chrome OS: Tomorrow's Desktop Today?
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Sometime in 2010, Google will release Chrome OS, its take on a netbook operating system. It will be far more than just that though. It's an entirely new take on the desktop operating system.
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Android rocks out on Fender phone
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T-Mobile launched an Eric Clapton-backed Fender Limited Edition of its Android-based MyTouch 3G phone. Meanwhile, China-based Hisense announced an HS-E90 Android phone, Motorola is launching an Android app store in China, and Taiwan's Gigabyte is rumored to be releasing an Android handset in Russia, say reports.
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U.S. Open Source for Open Government
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In December the U.S. White House set guidelines for an open and transparent administration. The Open Source for America (OSFA) organization is now following up with tips for a governmental move to free software.
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Google's Chrome OS to include a media player
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Google has confirmed that its upcoming lightweight, browser-centric Chrome OS operating system will include a built-in media player. In an interview with ArsTechnica, Matthew Papakipos, the engineering director for the Chrome OS project, says that the developers are currently working on "integrating a whole media player into Chrome and into Chrome OS".
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'Monstrous' $2m download fine slashed
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Second Lucid Lynx alpha said to offer 15-second start-ups
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The second alpha of Ubuntu 10.06 boasts 15-second boot-time, says an industry report. Meanwhile, the Ubuntu project posted a controversial survey about which proprietary apps might be considered for inclusion with the distro, and Canonical announced a support plan for IBM's Ubuntu/Lotus "Smart Work" cloud distribution.
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Cairo Shell - The Open Source shell for Windows
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Yes, I know, windows, boo, hiss, and all that, but this is a really nice (And now FOSS) shell alternative that I've been following progress of for a few years now, and it's now open source!
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YouTube, Vimeo Ditching Flash for HTML5
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YouTube and Vimeo is kicking Adobe's Flash to the curb in favor of the sharp new HTML5. Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced that they are launching HTML5-based players on their video streaming sites, thus booting out the long-standing champ of multimedia delivery, Adobe Flash.
Read more »Ingres CEO Analyzes Oracle-MySQL Combination
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Shortly after the European Union approved Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems (and MySQL), I interviewed Ingres President and CEO Roger Burkhardt about his views on the Oracle-MySQL combo. Here are his thoughts.
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SF mayor: city can save money with open source software
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The San Francisco Committee on Information Technology has published a new software evaluation policy that requires departments of the city government to consider open source software solutions alongside proprietary commercial offerings.
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Platform Independent
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Except for those operating systems that are still gaining their foothold (Haiku, Syllable, ReactOS), it seems as though we are becoming increasingly platform independent.
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Ubuntu, you blew your chance to go mainstream
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...I'll state it plainly – Ubuntu, you got us this far and then, just when it mattered, you blew it for all of us... For the first time ever, the mainstream tech press mentioned an upcoming Linux release in a Windows preview article. And what did Ubuntu do to capitalise on this new-found exposure? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
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