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Novell: Putting the FOSS in Fossa
News Open-source advocates will quickly realise that Fossa, along with being a cat-like and very agile mammal, is also a play on the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) acronym. It has competed hard with the likes of Microsoft and IBM, but over the...
[March 24, 2008, 8:00]
Government attitude to open source improving?
Blog Comment Labour are just paying lip service to FOSS. The Tories are far more together when it comes to FOSS and Open Standards. All UK gov-encouraged council daliancies with open source have been scams - e.g. Birmingham City Council, Newham.
[June 26, 2009, 14:53]
Despair greets software patent bill
Talkback Vaughn: FOSS has a terrifying defence: the typical FOSS developer is not worth suing. If a project is buried in lawyers in the US or EU, expect to see it pop up again in Argentina, Korea or Zimbabwe within hours to days - and expect to see a new...
[March 10, 2005, 12:46]
Too Little, Too Late
Talkback It's nice to see that the pressure Microsoft is getting from OpenOffice.org and other FOSS office software is obviously getting to be significant enough to produce a response. I hope that such a limited exposure to an Office-type product, combined...
[October 9, 2009, 17:57]
Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
Talkback Rod S.is most probably a MCSE, who is scared beyond humanity about the (possible) paradigm shift that FOSS represents. If you are dependant on selling and maintaining the malware produced in Redmond, so you can easily fill your coffers without...
[July 14, 2005, 16:45]
Esperanto attitude needed for next-gen application development
Blog Comment It is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) attitude, and booth are very similar. Most FOSS are multilingual, they have libraries that make it easy. This is not only esperanto attitude. In any GNU/Linux distributions you can install additional...
[November 19, 2008, 15:18]
The 3 I's
Blog Last Saturday I went along to KLUG, my local Linux Users Group, to say hello and to talk about setting a FOSS-based digital arts project, which would double up as a focal point for local FOSS groups, plus it could also facilitate a way of...
[April 1, 2009, 14:03]
German Linux migration not a taxing decision
Talkback As more of these type of deployments are publicized, FOSS will flourish faster and faster. Well done indeed.when many public and private sector organizations hear about them, they definately will take notice and start considering their own...
[June 9, 2006, 20:13]
Having it both ways?
Talkback I guess what you're trying to say is that Microsoft is as guilty as all the FOSS programmers they claim have "stolen" or "acquired" Microsoft owned IP that has ended up in Linux? So instead of having FOSS being the sticky-gum mess Microsoft says it...
[July 24, 2009, 9:30]
Sun 'distorts' definition of free software
Talkback Many people who use FOSS may indeed do so only because it's "free as in beer. And as you yourselves note, such people aren't interested in looking at the source code, modifying it, creating new FOSS programs and whatnot.
[July 2, 2005, 19:49]
Sun 'distorts' definition of free software
Talkback If you value FOSS for being free (as in beer), that doesn't mean everyone else does. The majority of people who run FOSS do so for its beuaty in Freedom, Reliability, Robustness, Liberty from lock downs, and just for a little bonus of being free.
[July 2, 2005, 15:41]
Sun 'distorts' definition of free software
Talkback What many in the FOSS-community fails to understand is that Schwartz actually is right. Conclusion: The most important part of FOSS for most people is that it's free! For the large majority of people using the software the access to the source-code...
[July 2, 2005, 12:36]
Becta fails the open source test
Talkback Having been a delegate at the last BECTA conference I can only agree that the view of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) within BECTA is very mixed. I spoke to some who agreed wholeheartedly that there was a very firm place for FOSS within schools.
[March 9, 2006, 8:12]
Unassailable
Talkback The costs associated with running FOSS and with proprietary are comparable, except for one of them; the license cost of the software. As are the costs for upgrading an application to a newer version with a different GUI (Viz recent MS Office and...
[April 8, 2009, 12:57]
Report reveals extent of open source in government
News A report published on Monday found that what it terms FOSS (free and open-source software) "plays a more critical role in the DoD than has been generally recognised," and noted that if open source was banned the department's security would plummet...
[October 30, 2002, 13:55]
UN body promotes open source in education
News The FOSS Education Primer explains the advantages of using open source software and gives information on server and desktop software that can be used in education. The development methodology of FOSS [free / open source software] tends to assure...
[January 21, 2005, 10:55]
Why are we not surprised?
Talkback The leader of the opposition was making big noises about FOSS as if he even knew what the acronym stands for, but that was at a time when there was speculation that Gordon Brown may have called an election.
[September 28, 2009, 9:32]
It's a different perspective
Talkback I think you'll find that the Linux/FOSS world has a different perspective here. The FOSS world operates in a manner where it tries to 'explore' as much of the landscape for 'forms of software' as is practicable, because it understands that no piece...
[April 27, 2009, 11:25]
Sun 'distorts' definition of free software
News In Schwartz's opening keynote at the JavaOne conference on Monday he spoke about how free price is the most important feature of free and open source software (FOSS). I want to talk about FOSS — free and open source software.
[July 1, 2005, 12:05]
'Linux' trademark doesn't matter, says Stallman
Talkback Seems he was suggesting the concept of FOSS was more important than any one name, which is true as far as it goes. RMS has done miracles in the propagation of FOSS, educating people about the process and, of course, the GPL.
[August 27, 2005, 21:19]
