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Ten tenets the Linux world needs to rethink

Ten tenets the Linux world needs to rethink

...7. Proprietary softwareInformation should be free, the GPL must be law, and proprietary software has no place on the Linux operating system. Wait, scratch that... Read more

19 August, 2011 by Jack Wallen

Cabinet Office posts open-source procurement guide

...ensure that there is a level playing field for open source and proprietary software and that some of the myths associated with open source are... Read more

3 November, 2011 by Mark Say

Government favours 'flexible' open-source software

...when costs are similar, the government will buy open-source rather than proprietary software. In a parliamentary written answer on Tuesday, the Cabinet Office minister... Read more

16 September, 2010 by Kable
FOSS v <endeca_term>proprietary software</endeca_term>: image editing

FOSS v proprietary software: image editing

...Given the price of 'industry standard' proprietary software from Adobe, Microsoft and other vendors, it's no surprise that... Read more

9 March, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight

Leveraging proprietary software at the expense of customers

I've posted a few articles on why using proprietary software can hurt or damage customers. Today, I ran into an experience... Read more

25 August, 2010

Support pitfalls of proprietary software

Proprietary software and hardware that keep secrets behind closed doors can cause a... Read more

27 July, 2010

Being locked in with proprietary software

I've written before about problems with proprietary software, and how some software vendors are locking in customers and using... Read more

16 June, 2010

Fact: Open Source Software saves money

...subject many times, where open source software for business can rise over proprietary software. Just today, I ran across an experience with Microsoft Excel. A... Read more

31 January, 2012

Sony Ericsson gives blessing to FreeXperia developers

...an independent group of ROM developers in order to promote diversification of proprietary software on its handsets Read more

30 September, 2011 by Ben Woods
Ten reasons why people get out of IT

Ten reasons why people get out of IT

...to achieve a set of standards, only to be knocked down by proprietary software. Those proprietary software vendors want to keep their code closed and... Read more

16 April, 2011 by Jack Wallen
Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...died in 1990, and the company turned towards industry-standard rather than proprietary software. In 1991 the company even began to resell IBM hardware. Wang... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer
Ten open-source fallacies that need nailing

Ten open-source fallacies that need nailing

...for the snippets of open-source code that find their way into proprietary software. A growing trendOpen-source software no longer bears the stigma it... Read more

29 July, 2011 by Jack Wallen

Oracle vs Google: One claim that should not stand

Oracle claims that Google appropriated the Java API fror Android and that money is due. That's not the way the law has worked in the past, nor how it should in the future Read more

19 April, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

Iceland swaps Windows for Linux in open-source push

...sending, for example, ODF documents, which not everyone can handle [when using proprietary software]. There were some schools that couldn't send documents to the... Read more

22 March, 2012 by Jack Clark
UK Sentinel study reveals GPS jammer use

UK Sentinel study reveals GPS jammer use

...cases a rubidium atomic clock, and an embedded Linux processing unit running proprietary software using C++, PHP, and a MySQL backend database. The eventual aim... Read more

22 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

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