Free Software Foundation Europe welcomes the European Commission's decision and offers its support in the coming anti-trust investigation. As stated previously in a letter to the European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, anti-competitive behaviour is unacceptable, whether it occurs as 'tying' products with dominant market segments, or in circumventing standards and fair access.
Read more »Web browser interoperability: FSFE welcomes EC's decision and offers support
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The forgotten lesson of the JournalSpace disaster
At look at what else we can learn from the JornalSpace disaster.
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Buffalo: The ox slowly strikes back
"...Once flashed with the famous custom firmware from dd-wrt, the device has turned into arguably the most versatile and stable wireless router on the market..."
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DebGems announced as Proprietary Platform: Why the GNU Affero GPL is Freedom for Network Services
"...copyleft is a tool designed to spread freedom in software, at any cost. The FSF, which wrote the GNU and Affero licenses, has the goal to make all software free as in freedom. Companies are ‘free’ to join the revolution, or to look somewhere else for their needs.
Read more »Mozilla Integrated Revised 2010 Goals: Free Software WITHOUT FREEDOM
"Here’s what I believe to be the final, consolidated set of 2010 goals. Let me know if you think there is some big issue I missed..."
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Free Software And Proprietary Dead-ends
"...There’s nothing wrong with charging money for the redistribution of this code either. Noone says anybody should provide stuff for free, just because it is GPL’ed “free” software. What the freedom in “free software” means is that anyone who obtains the code also remains at liberty to redistribute the GPL’ed code and charge for it too, if he or she wishes to do so..."
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Keyword Optimization - Extending Emacs for SEO
"...The basic plan is to have a small frame at the bottom of the editor which constantly updates with the number of words and keyword density. Highlighting will be controlled by a key combination and disabled when any other key is pressed..."
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Companies drive open source success?
A new report says that large IT vendors are responsible for open source’s accelerated adoption and change.
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Announcing Ubiquiti's Free Software RouterStation User Interface/Firmware Challenge!
"In an effort to enrich and contribute to the Free Software community, Ubiquiti Networks is offering $200,000 in cash prizes for developers who provide the most impressive User Interface/Firmware for Ubiquiti's newly released free-software embedded wireless platform, the RouterStation..." -- routerstation is based on openwrt as
Read more »From Linux to Windows: Is This 2009 Downgrade Really Necessary?
While speaking recently with one of my bosses, I was told I will receive a new business laptop in 2009. Now, for the problem: It will be running Windows Vista or Windows XP. Hooray for new gear. Boo for Luddite attitudes.
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Unison and Canonical’s Ubuntu Attack Microsoft Exchange
Unison Technologies, with an assist from Canonical and Ubuntu Linux, says it is “launching a major threat to Microsoft Exchange.” Hmmm. The VAR Guy has heard similar grandstanding before from a range of companies. But Unison has caught our resident blogger’s attention a few times. Here’s why.
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10 Reasons To Choose Linux in a Bad Economy
Whether the ailing economy is real or imagined, you might be looking for ways to shed some pounds off your bloated IT budget. You should seriously consider Linux and Open Source software to put your 2009 financial appetite on a diet. Here are 10 reasons to choose Linux in a bad economy and none of them have to do with the fact that Linux is free.
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Sun on open source: What doesn't kill you...
Open source is the very thing that has crippled Sun, yet Sun is looking to open source, to hobble its competitors and revive its future. We often talk in the technology industry about the need to cannibalize your own business before someone else does it to you. Sun may be a little late off the starting blocks, but it's fascinating to watch its race against time
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Replacing Linux with Windows saves £1 million
A UK company says its switch from Linux to Windows will save it £1 million (almost $A2.3 million). How does that work?
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Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share--Firefox Above 20% | OStatic
NetApplications is out with a couple of new metrics of market share for operating systems and browsers, and the news is good for open source. Topping their findings, Microsoft Windows' market share has dropped below 90 percent for the first time in its measurements. The share erosion is largely attributed to increased interest in the Mac platform, but Linux is cited as on the rise as well.
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