Torvalds' comments on GPLv3 committees refuted: Looking for feedback.
A NewsForge article by Bruce Byfield includes:Torvalds' comments should probably be read in the context of his statement that his particular concerns, notably the mention of DRM, have not been...
View ArticleBSD, The Best Software Program Ever Written: InformationWeek
While the InformationWeek article does talk about Unix/Linux in general as the top entry of its 12 greatest software programs of all time, it singles out BSD4.3 as the heart of the system's greatness...
View ArticleState in India moves 1.5M students to Linux
Given the accounts on this site about the approach of Canadian politicians educational officials towards open source in the classroom, it's interesting to see what's happening elsewhere. A recent...
View ArticleFeds put open source into active service
An ITBusiness.ca article by Shane Schick includes:The Canadian government is planning to use GForge as the starting point for asset management. A Treasury Board director walks us through the process...
View ArticleVancouver Community College phases in more Linux
An ITBusines.ca article by Sarah Lysecki includes:A B.C. post-secondary institution said it intends to grow the number of Linux machines in its data centre as it replaces older hardware infrastructure...
View ArticleTelecom industry dials into open source potential
There is an article in ITBusiness.ca by Grant Buckler talking about Open Source telephony software such as Asterisk and SIPx. It includes discussion of an industry panel that had unsurprising mixed...
View ArticleAussie Study: Copyright Owners Inflate the Cost of Piracy
According to This story, a confidential study for the Australian government has concluded that industry statistics concerning financial loss due to piracy are "unverified and epistemologically...
View ArticleCDN Desktop Virtualization saves schoolboards money
A desktop virtualization software product developed by an Calgary-based company is teaching students at an Illinois middle school some pretty impressive multiplication lessons.Several students at...
View ArticleDecember issue of the Open Source Business Resource
The December issue of the Open Source Business Resource is now out (PDF)This issue includes (pp 29-33 in the PDF) my article titled "Protecting Information Technology Property rights". This article,...
View ArticleDoes Windows have a skeleton key?
The Seatlle Times reports that Microsoft has been making available a tool for law enforcement that, amongst other things, decrypts protected files on Windows systems.
View ArticleFOSS Jumps Over the Great Firewall of China
My longtime colleague Brian Osborn, publisher of Linux Magazine (which is what it's callled everywhere in the world except for the US and Canada where it's "Linux Pro Magazine") has been calling...
View ArticleEvan Prodromou is a TWiT.
Congrats to Montreal-based Evan Prodromou who seems to have enlisted #3 TwitterholicLeo Laporte in Evan's attempt to open up Twitter with Identi.ca. To learn more about Evan's awesome project, check...
View ArticleFree Software and the Canadian Federal Election 2008
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a donor supported charity founded in 1985 and based in Boston, MA, USA. The FSF has a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights...
View ArticleAn open door for open source?
CBC news reporter Emily Chung interviewed a number of people in the community on the Canadian Government RFI on what they called "No Charge Licensed Software (NCLS)".
View ArticleHow to avoid the benefits of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
FLOSS offers many benefits over software that has a sole proprietor and is funded by royalties. Examples of sole proprietor software are packages such as Microsoft Office where there is a single entity...
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