"Vendor lock-in has become the primary problem for IT decisions in general and Free Software adoption in particular. It distorts the market and denies Free Software solutions equal competition on the merits. The problem has been that many lock-ins are invisible, for example reliance on proprietary protocols or needing to use certain document formats.
Read more »Certified Open: Welcome to life after ICT lock-in
http://mail.fsfeurope.org –
media consolidation and the internet
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org –
"...having a Free and Open Web is critical not only to ensuring that there are different viewpoints, but critical to our very Democracy. The more big media owns, the more the Web must remain Open..."
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Miro vs. Joost - Why this matters
http://www.getmiro.com –
"Miro is open like the internet." [and Free as in Freedom!] "Joost works like a cable company with DRM. Which vison of web video do you want to see prevail, proprietary or open?" [or Free as in Freedom!] "Do you want corporations to decide what you watch?"
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Django: Moving into production
http://www.b-list.org –
"At some point, every Django-based project (hopefully) moves out of the development phase and into production deployment, and this can be a traumatic experience.
Read more »PR: New version of Care2x HIS was released
http://www.opensourcexperts.com –
Care2x is a GPL'ed Hospital Information System like Vista.
Check it out!
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Ubuntu 7.10 - Not the Linux I Knew and Loved
http://www.nitevilla.net –
I have been a big supporter of Ubuntu over the last few years and I have been using Ubuntu for many, many releases. I turned several friends onto Linux using Ubuntu and one of them has been quite excited about the operating system. Over the past year or so the Linux fan boys have been pushing eye candy on Ubuntu touting it as ahead of both Microsoft and Apple's desktop operating systems.
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Building Open Komodo
http://wiki.openkomodo.com –
"This is a wikified version of the README.txt that accompanies the Open Komodo sources (which should always be the most current version of this document). It tells you how to get started building, using and developing with the Open Komodo source base. Komodo is based on Mozilla, so prepare yourself for some serious build time..."
Read more »Becky Hogge, Open Rights Group, on the BBC, iPlayer and DRM, interviewed by Sean Daly
http://www.groklaw.net –
Becky Hogge: "The Open Rights Group is a digital civil liberties organization based in the UK. We've been going since 2005, and we were founded by a community of one thousand concerned UK citizens who thought that the UK needed a body to inform public debate and put pressure on public policy when it came to digital civil liberties issues.
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SCO vs. Novell: The bankruptcy wars
http://www.linux-watch.com –
Can SCO escape Novell's wrath? Will SCO CEO Darl McBride emerge rejuvenated and ready to continue the Linux legal wars by selling SCO's Unix business? These and many more questions will be answered in the next episode of "As SCO Turns."
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Fans shafted as Major League Baseball revokes DRM licenses
http://www.downloadsquad.com –
The crack of the bat, the smell of the grass and the pain of losing your purchased content to DRM deactivation. In what can only be called the biggest bonehead move since Bill Buckner's error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, Major League Baseball has deactivated a DRM license server used to verify your worthiness to play back video of games you purchased online.
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Why try another Linux distro?
http://www.itwire.com –
I've been a full-fledged Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon user for more than a week now, I'm completely off Microsoft Windows and I couldn't be happier. For some reason, however, I keep getting emails and posts urging me to try other supposedly superior Linux distributions for newbies - PCLinuxOS and SimplyMEPIS, among others. Intrigued, I have decided to check this out for myself.
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Do Your Customers Hate Vista? Rip and Replace with a Twist
http://www.channelinsider.com –
After a few seconds, the questions start. Questions that should be easy to answer, but turn out not to be! Where is my start button? Where are my programs? What happened to the Menu in Internet Explorer? Why is the system constantly asking for my permission to do simple things? Why does my system take so long to boot?
Read more »Google's Android: Separating the Sizzle From the Steak
http://www.linuxinsider.com –
While Google and its Open Handset Alliance partners would have us believe that it's all about the customer, the Android open source mobile platform is as much about preventing Microsoft, Symbian and Palm from taking up the top position in the mobile operating system space.
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MS and OSS: BFFs? More Like 'Frenemies'
http://www.linuxinsider.com –
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts: or how the leopard can't change his spots.
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Quick Mention: Novell Takes Cash, Forgives Microsoft for Abuses
http://boycottnovell.com –
Novell has announced an agreement with Microsoft to settle potential antitrust litigation related to Novell’s NetWare operating system in exchange for $536 million in cash.
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