Defending Openness in the European Union
July 6, 2008
Computerworld UK: “One of the most surprising recent developments in the field of openness has been the rise of Europe as a key player there…”
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Hands On: 12 Quick Hacks for Firefox 3
July 6, 2008
LinuxWorld: “Firefox 3 has been out for two weeks now, so get with the program: It’s time to hack it…”
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Ubuntu's Role in Bug Management for the Whole Free Software Stack
June 29, 2008
here be dragons: “A distribution occupies a very specific niche in the free software ecosystem. Among other things, we need to accept some responsibility for ALL the software defects (’bugs’) that users actually experience across the entire stack…”
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Open Source Tour of Europe: Germany
June 29, 2008
451 CAOS Theory: “Similarly, when it comes to open source adoption, Germany has a long tradition of leading the world. For example, a study of Linux contributors by Paul Jones of iBiblio in 2000 found that Germans were the second largest contributors…”
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Why Linux Developers Are Wasting Their Time
June 29, 2008
Red Devil’s Tech Blog: “How many Linux users do you know who, once they have installed a new distribution, are so happy with its default appearance that they leave it alone…?”
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Mobile Linux Has Real Trouble Ahead
June 29, 2008
Cyber Cynic: “Ka-Boom! Sorry, that was the sound my crystal ball made made as it fell off its stand and smashed into a million pieces…”
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How "Ignorant of Standards" Was Microsoft Really?
June 29, 2008
ConsortiumInfo: “Regular readers will notice that I’ve been woefully silent the last few weeks, at first due to having too many irons in the fire, and for the last ten days due to being on a family vacation abroad, returning not till July 2…”
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Vienna failed to migrate to GNU/Linux: why?
June 25, 2008
Free Software Magazine: “Several governments and councils reported multi-year migration plans to GNU/Linux. Free software activists praised each one of them in their blogs and commentaries. However, a few months or years on, some of those plans crumbled. Vienna is one of them. A question here begs to be answered: why did it happen? The City of Vienna made several crucial mistakes. In this article, I will list the most prominent ones”
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Red Hat settles Hibernate patent suits, makes open source community unhappy
June 25, 2008
IT News: “If Red Hat had taken the case to court and disputed the patents’ validity, the company could have had the patent struck down thus preventing future litigation against open source projects that use similar technology, they argue.”
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Nokia: Linux Needs to Learn Business
June 25, 2008
Business Week: ” “Why do we need closed vehicles? We do,” he said. “Some of these things harm the industry but they’re here [as things stand]. These are touchy, emotional issues but this dialogue is very much needed. As an industry, we plan to use open-source technologies but we are not yet ready to play by the rules; but this needs to work the other way round too.”"
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