The Finnish creator of Linux says open-source software isn't really an anti-Microsoft movement; it's just a better model for getting the job done.
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L1NUX car license/number plate for sale on eBay.uk
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At time of posting bids are at £5,300.00 and still haven't met the reserve price. Where is the "GNU.Linux" license plate I hear you ask?
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eLiberatica 2008 - The Romanian's biggest Open Source event
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Preparations for the biggest Open Source event of the year in Romania has just begun. Join us!
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[atompub] End of a Chapter
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"...If everyone is going to be willing to code their clients to work with every different set of publishing-system idiosyncrasies, then Atompub will have been a waste of time. But that doesn’t seem plausible to me."
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Book review: Learning jQuery
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"One complaint of just about any book that attempts to teach a new language or technology is a presumed level of expertise by the authors. I found it refreshing that in Learning jQuery the book begins… well, at the beginning, and increases in difficulty along with the concepts. It gives designers and entry-level interface developers the opportunity to come up to speed at an acceptable pace..."
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EU tells open source to start paying MS patent tax
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"Brussels, 23 October 2007 -- EU Commissioner Kroes' deal with Microsoft creates real dangers to Europe's growing open source economy, warns the FFII. Using patent licenses that exclude businesses, the software monopolist has turned the EU competition ruling into a victory, and now gets implicit support from the Commission to proceed aggressively against its competitors."
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Could Open Source Fuel the Next Bubble
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Greg sent me this article at the New York Times,"Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again" and Stacy says (via Matt ) Ballmer is hunting for Open Source Start-Ups.
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Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon First Impressions
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It took me a while to upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 because Ubuntu servers were so busy. It would even time-out at times. But now it’s done, Gutsy Gibbon is turning out to be a very solid release. I’ve been using Ubuntu since 6.04 and it has definitely gone a long way!
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The Innovation Game
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Innovation is a weasel word. It used to earn an honest living, but now it's been hijacked by marketing people for dishonest purposes. It's now in the same category as "rich". Does anyone now hear the words "rich user experience" or "rich client" without thinking of a bloated, Windows-only client that doesn't use open or standard protocols ?
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The Future of Trusted Linux Computing
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Despite my gripe about the Web site's sparse message and design, the message is a good one. The Trusted Computing Project allows its recipients to free themselves from the clutches of Microsoft and find themselves in a position where open source is the way of the land.
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Where does Linux go from here?
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Linux is now mainstream -- so mainstream, in fact, that two of the top three Linux distributions are commercially successful operations, and the third aims to be.
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Linux Projects' Best Kept Secret
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Webpath Technologies, the parent company of On-Disk.com, is proud and excited to report that they have reached a record in pay-outs to developers and software projects. This month's calculations showed that developers have received a total of over 21,000 USD in 2006 and 2007 so far.
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Roy T. Fielding speaks up on REST
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"...At a time where REST is becoming mainstream in our industry, it is important to see Roy involved in the clarification of minds on what is actually REST, and preventing it from becoming an uncontrollable buzzword."
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Gobuntu has already failed
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What’s the point of Gobuntu’s existence if it still contains non-free components? Apparently, Canonical even went to the trouble of removing everything except the copyrighted-all-rights-reserved image files. i’m left scratching my head, wondering why they bothered with this farce if they weren’t prepared to go all the way?
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Dumping Vista - A divorce with a happy ending
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I have many colleagues and friends who have been through messy divorces. In each case, these poor guys have gone from having the good life, to having issues, to losing half of their assets (or more). I just filed my divorce papers for Microsoft's Vista. In my case, my relationship with Vista never went through the good life period.
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