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Get the facts
Talkback Stating a fact - FLOSS is cheaper most of the time - is not the same as showing bias. Surely, any vendor who promotes the need to "Get the facts" should appreciate this?
[January 31, 2007, 13:39]
OpenOffice to the Rescue
Blog Comment Betamax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war but I think there could be a happy ending to this particular story as FLOSS makes continued inroads into proprietary markets (I say that but have no figures to back it up!
[April 1, 2009, 9:36]
Green software
Talkback Fat clients earn more licence fees for proprietary software companies so they are less inclined to recommend thin clients than the FLOSS solution providers. In Jonathan Steel's presentation there is no mention of green software.
[November 30, 2007, 16:01]
Intel acquires Linux mobile developers for Atom
News Describing itself as "kind of like the 'Millenium Falcon' of Floss, or worst case, an Ewok village", OpenedHand employs numerous core Gnome developers, and is a member of the Gnome advisory board. Intel Corporation has acquired Opened Hand, a...
[August 29, 2008, 14:56]
French students to get Linux CDs
News The idea is to be progressive: start with FLOSS [free/libre and open source software] on a Windows or Mac, try out a Live CD without the fear of messing things up, and then install your preferred [Linux] distro," he said.
[August 11, 2005, 14:20]
So... is the open source model broken or not?
Blog All this - like the FLOSS 2020 report which also came out this week - can seem somewhat fuzzy, and un-technical. A BusinessWeek article says the open source model is broken. But Red Hat's CEO tells us it isn't.
[December 4, 2008, 9:03]
Microsoft-TomTom suit puts open source on guard
News I'm surprised Microsoft thinks they can get away with this and retain good relations to Floss (Free, Libre and Open Source Software) developers," Jeremy Allison, a prominent figure in the Samba open-source community, wrote in an email.
[February 27, 2009, 10:00]
Security takes more than patch management
News Yes, we do, as an industry, need to take the time to "floss". Everyone knows they're supposed to do it, but most of us still don't. Some pundits say the simple answer for patching lies in proactivity.
[November 17, 2003, 11:10]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Here we have a site that is more like candy floss than ice-cream: it looks substantial, it is quite pretty, but there is almost nothing to it.This site is a useful guide to wasting money on the web. You can tell you are into what us journalists...
[August 17, 1998, 10:40]
iBuddha
Downloads iBuddha is a fortune app with a difference: rub the Laughing Buddha's belly, and be rewarded with hearty laughter and a bit of wisdom. Fortunes can be viewed with or without lucky numbers, and can be emailed to your friends.iBuddha contains...
[April 27, 2009, 22:25]
40 percent of IT jobs will be in open source
Blog The FLOSS 2020 roadmap, announced at the Open World Forum in Paris, gives a set of predictions of where IT will be in 2020. By 2020, the cloud will have taken over, and open source will rule in the cloud - with the result that 40 percent of IT jobs...
[December 3, 2008, 10:48]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog I get there, to find the signs up saying "Moscone Welcomes The 64th Annual Dental Hygiene And Floss Operatives Convention". Monday 16/02/2004 Time to get registered. I know the score: I've been here before, so I set off confidently to the Moscone...
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
UK local government lags behind in open source
News The results, which include data from 371 local authorities across 13 European countries, were announced by Rishab Ghosh, the programme leader of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) survey, at an open source software conference in...
[January 20, 2005, 17:05]
ISO Credibility
Talkback Governments, FLOSS, and consumers on the other hand, MUST argue the first law of the Internet; that interoperability trumps everything. Think about why it is that both Ecma and OASIS sought to have their format proposals approved by ISO?
[March 3, 2008, 18:13]
