As Australia and various other nations prepare to vote on whether Microsoft's Open Office XML becomes an ISO standard, the Redmond giant is attempting to downplay fears that OOXML adopters will be hooked into the company's technology.
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Advice on relicensing from the SFLC
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After the past week's kerfuffle w/ the BSD folks regarding the copyright notices in ath5k, the SFLC thought it was important to provide some educational outreach to the Linux kernel development community. Since I have been working with them over the past year or so on a couple of matters, they have asked me to pass-on this information.
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Should Microsoft Really Bundle Open Source Software?
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While I think this is a difficult challenge, I don’t think it is an insurmountable challenge. Microsoft can afford an army of lawyers and hopefully some of them are extremely bright and can come up with creative solutions that might allow Microsoft to leverage and even bundle Open Source software in a safe manner.
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Postfix Antispam on SMTP servers
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If you run your own Postfix SMTP server however, there are lots of things you can do to stop spam. This is a little crib sheet of what I do on most of my servers (as much for my ease-of-access as for other people).
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Learn python in 10 minutes.
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So, you want to learn the Python programming language but can’t find a concise and yet full-featured tutorial. This tutorial will attempt to teach you Python in 10 minutes.It’s probably not so much a tutorial as it is a cross between a tutorial and a cheatsheet
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Shuttle goes Linux: small form factor (SFF) PC with SUSE Linux from Novell
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Shuttle Inc., SFF PC market leader and manufacturer of multi form factor solutions, now offers fully configured systems, based on Intel technology, featuring Novell SUSE Linux operating systems. The new aluminium SFF PCs can be individually configured in the Shuttle Systems Configurator, and come, ready-to-use, with a dependable 24 month Pick-up and Return service.
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Screenshots: VirtualBox’s seamless integration
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The new VirtualBox features seamless integration of Windows guest windows with Linux hosts. While I do not have a Windows copy at my hands at the moment a friend of mine made some screenshots and told me about his experiences.
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Linux Adoption To Slow, Say CIOs
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Citing the results of its "CIO Pulse" quarterly survey, investment firm UBS said Tuesday that the rapid rate of adoption of the Linux operating system by businesses is likely to slow in the next year.
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A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web
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"There are already many who support the ideas laid out in this Bill of Rights, but we are actively seeking to grow the roster of those publicly backing the principles and approaches it outlines..."
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How a Microsoft Piracy Threat almost led us to Open Source… Almost!
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Are you interested in a 'true'-life story about MS vs OpenSource? Well, here's one story about the real-world implementation and struggles of 'schools' (and students) trying to struggle with choices. Heart breaking stuff, if you're a Linux fan that is.
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Linux: Hasta la Vista, Microsoft!
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It's faster than Windows, it fights viruses – and it's free. Jimmy Lee Shreeve on the software that's bringing more power to our PCs....Linux makes your computer run quicker, it doesn't crash, it doesn't catch anywhere near as many viruses, and it's free. For a decade, it was available only for people to install themselves. But now, the geek's favourite is coming to the masses.
Read more »Open Tools for a Better Web
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"Good tools are a developer's dream. I've been hearing the lament for better open source tools for open technology stacks ever since I started working with Mozilla. Today ActiveState is announcing the Open Komodo Project, bringing new open source tools for web developers into the Mozilla world..."
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Battle for Open Web Standards Gains Open Source Tools
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"Open Komodo Project from ActiveState to create Firefox-integrated web developer tools based on the award-winning Komodo IDE [...] The Open Komodo development environment will be entirely open source and licensed under the same terms as Firefox: Mozilla Public License (MPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), and GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL).
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Ohio (GNU/)LinuxFest Set to Edutain Thousands
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Attendees of the Ohio LinuxFest - or GNU/LinuxFest for GNU fans - received the following note from the organizers...
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Are electronic signatures safe?
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Came across this site which set me thinking. How safe are really electronic signatures and are we ready?
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