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Look Beyond Traditional Solutions for Effective Disaster Planning
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How Sun's need to control the code cost them the company
Sun was the poster child of a company trying to retain complete control over everything they released into Open Source, and Sun vs. the Linux world was a wonderful example of the weakness of...
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Expect Microsoft attack on open source citadel, says Allison
Open source evangelist Jeremy Allison was in New Zealand yesterday, where he issued dire warnings of Microsoft launching a patent attack against open source to win back mobile market share.
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Still Livin' La Vida Linux
It's been over a year since I wrote about my conversion to a Linux based digital media environment. This time I guess it's the MPAA who would be calling me a criminal, rather than the (RIAA) but...
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Mono-mania: It's risky business
The Open Source Mono project is controversial because it is a re-implementation of Microsoft's .NET technology. It's time for Miguel De Icaza's Mono implementation -- and applications that use it...
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Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard
Sometimes I encounter a coding problem so intransigent that fixing it is a triumph worth sharing with the world. Have I mentioned how much I hate Microsoft Excel? Welcome to a day in the life of a...
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In Office SP2, Microsoft manages to reduce interoperability
Microsoft Office SP2 claims to have a fully compliant version of ODF, and that's probably true, as defined by the specification. It's just completely useless at interoperating with other...
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GPL's cloudy future
One of the things about getting older is that you learn to ignore things until you have to do something about them. It's a learned efficiency, I suppose, rationing your increasingly precious time...
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Windows 7: A sound of thunder
The amazing thing about Windows marketing is that everything a user might want is always available in the next version. Try and ignore the marketing thunder and check out a version of Linux. You...
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When Linux fails
At first glance, Free and Open Source software should be perfect for places like Mali. The local economy is poor, and average salaries make proprietary software an unimaginable expense for most...
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Livin' La Vida Linux
Encoding my CDs in a lossless, patent-fee, DRM-free format gives me the freedom to do what I want with the music I've already bought. The RIAA would probably call me a criminal.
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Learning the programmer's craft
I ended up in programming by accident, as many do. I was studying for a PhD and having to write software as part of the studies, only to find that writing the software was more interesting and fun...
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Tough love: Linux needs more haters
[The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] I've been spending far too much time reading a blog recently. Normally I dislike reading blogs, or...
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Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery
“If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." --Isaac Newton. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.]...
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Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft
Samba’s forthcoming version 3.2 release capitalizes on Microsoft’s interoperability commitments while also guarding against patent covenants that threaten the GPL. Samba 3.2, which is...
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Free software great and small
They envision a world with Linux running on the smallest embedded devices to the largest supercomputer clusters, and all possible devices in between. It's only a matter of time before even desktop...
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News to know: Adobe launches AIR 1.0; Private IE 8 beta; Apple IIc; Jeremy Allison
Notable headlines: Adobe to launch AIR 1.0 Techmeme. Putting terabytes of memory into servers, the cheap way Mary Jo Foley: Private IE 8 beta 1 test build coming soon Richard Stiennon:...
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Of DVDs and documents
In their marketing claims around getting OOXML anointed as an International Standard, Microsoft says that more standards mean greater consumer choice. But sometimes less is more. We only have to...
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Insecurity blues: What I learned from my buggy code
Jeremy Allison: There's nothing worse than discovering that your own bad code has caused thousands of people to waste their time rolling out patches. Still, it's easier to find and fix security...
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The Low Point--a view from the Valley: The innovation game
Innovation these days is being used as a code word for large, corporate controlled research and development, regardless of any results it might produce.
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Insanity and the standards process
Microsoft's OOXML may have stumbled on the standards fast track, but the format is already implemented in Office 2007.
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