Links 03/05/2008: Free Software in Spain, Ecuador, Vietnam, Philippines, Australia...
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-03 18:31:14 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-03 18:31:14 UTC
- Biggest ever Spanish open source agreement signed
- Ecuador: A Weekend of Free Software Throughout the Country
- Software piracy is a tough nut to crack
- Filipinos father open source electronic health record system
- May 2, 2008: Code freeze in effect, on towards wine 1.0!
- [Wine 0.9.61 Released]
- Open Source is the 'software establishment', report says
- Govt 'computer bungle cost $51m'
- CII-Shiksha Integrates Open Source In Curriculum
- The push for open textbooks
- The cloud era and open source
- Too Many Vendors Or Not Enough Innovation?
- Beyond Open Systems
- Everyblock for everyone
- ONC: Open source is key to agencies' NHIN connections
- Slackware [12.1] Release Announcement
- Ophcrack 3.0 is out!
- Rocks 5.0 (V) is Released
- OpenArena 0.7.6
- Highly Addictive Puzzle/Arcade Games for Linux
- Games : Vega Strike 0.5.0 released
- Inhouse Linux support not viable in the long run?
- Switching to Linux which distro to use, Mandriva?
- PCLinuxOS Magazine May 2008 Released
- Penguicon 6.0 -- Penguins in Space!
- Open source diva Danese Cooper (video)
- Mrs Red Devil Installs Ubuntu 8.04
- Ubuntu on the OLPC XO-1
- My first months at Acquia
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- Windows Decline - Success for the Linux PC
- Why the Linux world should embrace the BSD's
- Four freedoms good, fewer freedoms bad?
- It's good to be free
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- There's Linux Inside
- Chumby: Cutest Linux Computer Ever
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- Off Topic: Desktop evaluation - Linux, Mac OS and Windows
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- AMD reveals open source client management tool
- Don't have a laptop? Try the virtual computer !
- Irish Open Source Technology Conference 2008
- Partnership to market embedded SQL database
- Infogain and Compiere Form Open Source Alliance
- OSS Developers and the Road Less Traveled
- The Seven/Big/Days/Bang Mashup
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Comments
Google
2008-05-04 05:58:46
LOL !!!
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-04 06:20:07
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/09/microsoft-dirty-fight-vs-odf/ http://boycottnovell.com/2007/12/17/font-patent-deals-and-ooxml/ http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/30/novell-apple-deal-similarity
Novell and Apple actually have a lot in common as far as their relationship with Microsoft is concerned. Remember that Microsoft does not mind using Apple to knock off its #1 rival, which is Free software (mainly the GPL), by it very own and recent admission. It calls it "Linux" and tries to separate "open source" from the rest (Ah! The power of words).
Be aware that Apple/Mac users are a source of revenue to Microsoft (patent deals/cross-licensing, Microsoft Office for Mac, etc.), unlike GNU/Linux.
Microsoft is also afraid of Google, to which GNU is an important enabler. The same goes for IBM which strategises like this (also, increasingly, Sun, Oracle and others).
LinuxIsFun
2008-05-04 11:20:11
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-04 13:08:38