Wine 0.9.44 Released
This is release 0.9.44 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. New in this release: Better heuristics for making windows managed, automatic detection of timezone parameters,…
Microsoft's Open Source Trashware
Quick! Think of some of the most popular open-source programs. I'll bet you thought of at least one of these: Linux, Firefox, Thunderbird and Apache. Now, name some of Microsoft's most active open…
Linux vs. BSD, What's the Difference?
Ubuntu is known as Linux for Human Beings, because it's driven by the philosophy that "software should be available free of charge, software tools should be usable by people in their local…
The Complete Story on the US INCITS Vote
"I headed in to town from the desert this afternoon to gas up and get groceries, and to catch up on all things ODF/OOXML. In scanning my Google Alerts, I ran into this posting by Microsoft's…
Microsoft kills its ‘Get the Facts’ anti-Linux site
It was a long time in coming. But Microsoft has finally acknowledged that its anti-Linux site had gone past the point of usefulness.
On August 23, Microsoft pulled plug on the “Get the…
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Alpha "Tribe 5" Released
This is the first alpha release of Gutsy Gibbon after the Feature Freeze and it is available to download from Ubuntu's site. A more-complete beta version of Gutsy Gibbon will be available on…
Open Source licence proliferation could threaten business IT
Business users of open source software should review their Open Source licensing agreements, audit their use of Open Source and create formal policies for managing source code, especially mixed-…
FrOSCon 2007
FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the second time on August, 25th - 26th 2007 at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the…
How Model Train Software Will Have an Important Effect on Open Source Licensing
One of the frustrations of lawyers serving the open source industry is that they have few cases which interpret open source licenses. As Eben Moglen has pointed out, such cases are few because…
Rock Your iPod With an Open-Source Upgrade
Life is too short to listen to crappy digital music. So I recently decided to begin ripping all of my newly purchased CDs into FLAC, the Free Lossless Audio Codec. Music files in FLAC format sound…