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Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Apparently one of the first things that CEO did was fire Adam Williamson, their Community Manager. Mandriva has been struggling recently, to say the least, and they brought on a new CEO a month or so ago.
[December 10, 2008, 8:26]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Comment Adam Williamson's blog "Why I Don't Like Canonical" is an exercise in hateful misinformation, i.e. For example, Williamson says, "I've read a figure suggesting it has cost Mr. Despite Williamson's sour grapes, ubiquitous Ubuntu is in fact raising...
[December 11, 2008, 17:24]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Comment Adam Williamson's supporters speak of how highly visible he was as a Mandriva roadie, yet those supporters turn a blind eye to Williamson's very petty and public spit at Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth.
[December 10, 2008, 21:30]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Comment Gnothi, I'm going to proceed to ignore you now. You're clearly not interested in reasonable conversation, so there's no point. InAction Man: well, whether or not I'm being paid by Mandriva-the-company I'm a firm supporter of Mandriva-the...
[December 11, 2008, 20:50]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Comment I am just a simple very long time Linux user (slackware based). I have to say that I have never tried Ubuntu, or Mandriva, but I appreciate Adam's participation in this forum, always helpful, he gave me confidence in his distribution and I was...
[December 11, 2008, 9:16]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Comment @Gnothi - Adam's "visibility" didn't matter to me, what made him significant and valuable was the fact he obviously knew what he was talking about, his advice and suggestions were always clear, concise and correct, and he put a lot of effort into...
[December 11, 2008, 7:33]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Comment Thanks, Gnothi, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas too. I'd like you to suggest what was petty (or, for that matter, particularly 'public', it was a post on my personal blog) about my detailed argument as to why Canonical has a negative effect...
[December 11, 2008, 0:21]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Comment Well, here's my new plan.http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01/01/project-sellout-proceeds-apace/
[January 2, 2009, 10:40]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Comment I wish you the best of luck, Adam. I have ran Mandrake/Mandriva since 2001 and always found solutions to problems on their forums, many coming from yourself for the past few years. Mandriva has always been one of the top innovators in desktop Linux...
[December 12, 2008, 9:43]
Manchester police boss sacked for downloading porn
News John Williamson, 35, was dismissed from his job as deputy director of press and public affairs with Greater Manchester Police, after 7,000 pornographic images were found saved on the hard drive of his work computer in the force's headquarters.
[March 8, 2001, 14:02]
Open source projects 'need more customer focus'
News Alan Williamson, an open source evangelist at IT services company SpikeSource, said that one reason open source projects fail is that some developers do not think about the features that customers will need.
[June 2, 2005, 12:40]
UK lab researches worm-throttling
News Matt Williamson, the researcher spearheading the research, has released a paper on "virus throttling". No human interaction with a computer could cause such a high connection rate, so Williamson and his team are working out how to best choke off...
[December 11, 2002, 11:04]
Flaw in Cisco WLAN opens up skyjacking risk
News We found [the flaw] in our labs," Wade Williamson, director of product management at AirMagnet, said on Monday. This includes unencrypted data such as the MAC address and the IP address of the wireless controller, as well as some configuration...
[August 28, 2009, 10:58]
Photos: Mobile WiMax in action
News Pictured here alongside Nortel's director of wireless for Europe, Gerry Collins (left), is Sasha Williamson, the founder and chief executive of Urban Wimax. According to Urban Wimax's Sasha Williamson, mobile WiMax and 3G will be able to co-exist...
[July 30, 2007, 18:35]
HP camera simplifies emailing photos
News The email process eliminates having to deal with attachments, which can frustrate some customers, said Holly Williamson, HP's program manager for Instant Share. There's been a lot of attention on making it easier to send photos," Williamson said.
[May 2, 2002, 9:22]
Survey: Tech execs retrenching
News Beyond cost cutting, there is no generally accepted strategy for how to succeed in the current environment," said Billie Williamson, the head of Ernst & Young's division that caters to technology companies.
[December 5, 2002, 13:43]
Security experts give charities a hand
News Several ISSA members have already pledged their support to the scheme, including ex-president of ISSA John Austin, who started Scotland Yard's Computer Crime Unit; Fred Piper, who runs the masters programme at Royal Holloway, University of London...
[September 22, 2004, 17:50]
Nurses first to use Intel tablet PC
News This low-tech approach can lead to transcription errors by fatigued nurses and potentially serious medical problems for patients, said Ann Williamson, nursing director at UCSF. This also allows nurses to spend more time with patients, because they...
[February 21, 2007, 15:08]
Scottish law firm hit by malicious email hoax
News Scott Williamson, Blackadder partner with responsibility for IT, told silicon.com: "This is clearly an attempt to discredit our reputation. Williamson said he doubts the culprit will be caught and added: "What's scary is how this was so easy to do.
[March 7, 2003, 15:56]
Sun vs MS: Let's call the whole thing off
News C# is all you really need," said Rick Williamson, chief executive of FarPoint Technologies, a Windows component developer based in Morrisville, North Carolina. Williamson went so far as to say that he considers C# to be the most stable part of...
[December 11, 2000, 12:51]
