I just wanted to make a point that no, Mac is not the most advanced OS in the world. On the contrary it appears to me like one of the least capable OSes from among Windows, BSD and Linux.
Read more »Is Mac OS Lion More Advanced Than Linux?
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God help us: Internet Explorer 6 Lives On
Despite all these alternatives and IE6’s security problems, according to site analytics vendor Net Applications, the decrepit Web browser still has almost 15% of the world market.
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Why Oracle Wants LibreOffice to Succeed
The outcome of the LibreOffice fork is pretty much on a course to set up the same conditions Oracle has tried to use to its advantage with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Previous Article Next Article Microsoft breaks petaflop barrier, loses Top 500 spot to Linux
The newest Top 500 ranking came out today, and Microsoft still hasn't placed a petaflop machine on the prestigious list.
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Open Source has won precisely because we no longer notice it
Open source has won. Oh, how time flies. When I started writing in Database in May 2003, my first column was about how the ICT Ministry had got the budget PC programme all wrong. ICT Minister Surapong had announced his great success at negotiating the inclusion of Windows XP and Office XP at just 1,500 baht, a 90 percent discount. He saw it as success. I saw it as capitulation.
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New Push for Software Patents in Europe (Innovation Union)
The debate over patents in Europe is starting to heat up again, just shortly after the patent maximalists got defeated; Sir Tim Berners-Lee explains his opposition to (F)RAND, in addition to software patents
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New Push for Software Patents in Europe (Innovation Union)
The debate over patents in Europe is starting to heat up again, just shortly after the patent maximalists got defeated; Sir Tim Berners-Lee explains his opposition to (F)RAND, in addition to software patents
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FOSDEM 2011 Infiltrated by Microsoft
“I’ve killed at least two Mac conferences. [...] by injecting Microsoft content into the conference, the conference got shut down. The guy who ran it said, why am I doing this?” –Microsoft's chief evangelist. So: Microsoft is trying to “kill” yet another event of its competitors by repelling attendees and changing the agenda in exchange for money
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FOSDEM 2011 Infiltrated by Microsoft
“I’ve killed at least two Mac conferences. [...] by injecting Microsoft content into the conference, the conference got shut down. The guy who ran it said, why am I doing this?” –Microsoft's chief evangelist. So: Microsoft is trying to “kill” yet another event of its competitors by repelling attendees and changing the agenda in exchange for money
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Why I'm Rooting for Microsoft
It will not have escaped your notice that the patent system has been the subject of several posts on this blog, or that the general tenor is pretty simple: it's broken, and nowhere more evidently so than for software. Anyone can see that, but what is much harder is seeing how to fix it given the huge vested interests at work here.
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Linux tools support iOS 4.2.1
The new version 1.0.4 of libimobiledevice, a library for communicating with Apple's mobile devices, now supports the recently released iOS 4.2.1 for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices
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Apple Privacy Concerns Go To Court
An anonymous reader writes "From the article: 'Apple is being sued for allegedly letting mobile apps on the iPhone and iPad send personal information to ad networks without the consent of users.'
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Does Florian Müller Work For The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution?
While reading Florian Müller's claim that Android infringes on Oracle's copyrights, I noticed how much what he was saying looked like Ken Brown's from ADTI's claims. So does Florian work for ADTI?
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The Provenance of Florian Müller
Florian Müller (the English spelling of Müller is Mueller) has a problem. He has no provenance. To quote Wikipedia:
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La retpaĝaro nun malfavoras kelkajn vortojn, kiuj estas fifamaj ĉe defendantoj de aŭtoraj rajtoj pri verkoj laŭleĝe nedisdonendaj de ajnuloj, eĉ ĉe serĉoj ne koncernantaj tiajn verkojn.
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