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for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:July 1, 2009 published on the FSF site, Stallman, who launched the GNU Project in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software, slammed Debian’s move which was taken “for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#.” He said: “It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use.” Debian’s decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use. The problem is not unique to Mono; any free implementation of C# would raise the same issue. The danger is that Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C# implementations underground some day using software patents. (See... [read full story]
Fortinet says IPO closed with 12.5M shares sold and underwriters buying another 1.9M shares SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) -- Network security provider Fortinet Inc., which began public trading on Wednesday, said Monday it closed its...
LOS ANGELES --(Business Wire)-- Phone (News - Alert) Power today announced that its award-winning VOIP phone service is on the shelves at Best Buy retail stores nationwide. Featuring a unique home-and-travel combo kit, the...
Agriculture futures fell Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for March delivery fell 2.25 cents to $5.785 a bushel, while March corn lost 3.75 cents to $4.0325 a bushel and oats for March delivery slipped 0.75 cent to...
GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider, located underground near the French-Swiss border, say proton beams have collided for the first time in the machine. The scientists told the BBC the...
