Would you use Windows if it was GPL?
"In my last post, several people accused me of being anti-Microsoft. This is not true at all! I believe that Microsoft makes good products. Do you think they could attain a 95% market share…
Linux On Wall Street Is Not An Oxymoron. Or Is It?
The Linux on Wall Street conference in New York is an attempt to highlight Linux and open source vendors and solutions, demonstrating and pontificating on how they all can work together.
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Wine 0.9.36 Released
Wine 0.9.36 was released today with Midi support in the CoreAudio driver, mixer support in the Alsa driver, a few MSI fixes, implementation for most D3DRM functions, the usual assortment of…
Project Honey Pot Files $1B+ Lawsuit Against Spammers
On Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 10:54am in a court in the Eastern District of Virginia, Project Honey Pot filed the largest anti-spam lawsuit ever. Seeking more than $1B in statutory damages, the…
Linux-powered robots go global
Researchers have unveiled internet-controlled wireless robots which are simple enough for "almost anyone" to build with off-the-shelf parts.
Created by boffins at Carnegie Mellon University…
Tertiary group calls on open source experts for community learning project
A venture funded by the Ministry of Education's e-learning Collaborative Development Fund, implemented by ITPNZ and led by Bay of Plenty Polytechnic is seeking to develop an Open Source Gateway…
OLPC "$100 laptop" to cost $175 and also Windows
The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and…
An Open Letter to AppleTV Hackers
The Neuros people are looking to grab the attention of AppleTV Hackers:
"I am writing to introduce you to Neuros, and to solicit your help in building the next generation open set-top box,…
10 Stunning Facts About Microsoft's Profits
It takes Microsoft only 10 hours -- yes, 10 hours -- to match Red Hat's profits for an entire quarter. Stunning? Check out this exclusive analysis of Microsoft's latest financial results...
…Announcing Fedora 7 Test 4
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of the fourth and final test release of Fedora 7.
Test 4 is for beta users. This is the time when we MUST have full community…