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An anonymous reader writes "I'm as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously,...
Science fiction has long inspired real-world technology, but have the authors of sci-fi stories finally run out of steam? Stuart Andrews investigates From the earliest days of Jules Verne and HG Wells, science fiction and...
Summary : An Australian patent lawyer lobbies for more patents; other examples of lawyers using the legal system for selfish purposes of profit A PART from monopolies and patent trolls, some of the biggest proponents of...
This is very sad. It is almost understandable that some people view Microsoft’s GPL violation [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ] and the company’s response to it as something worthy of credit. To its credit, rather than damning the tool...
Summary : Richard Stallman clarifies a joke * From : Richard Stallman * To : foundation-list gnome org, gnome-women-list gnome org * Subject : For avoidance of misunderstandings * Date : Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:22:47 -0500 Some of...
E-books are fantastic, but the ease of acquisition means that they can blur together a bit. Every few months, I try to take stock of what I've been reading via Kindle and share it here. Tana French seems to have a talent for...
dot-com bust it was Unix to Linux migration because Linux was cheaper than Solaris on SPARC,” says Barry Crist, CEO of Likewise, a maker of integration and identity management software for mixed environments. ‘ Our reader says:...
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” – Honor de Balzac Summary : Analysis of a culture where those who believe in the law are being discouraged and daemonised A T Boycott Novell we often get flak for merely pointing...
At the Glue Conference this week I'm enjoying a great set of speakers lined up by Eric Norlin on the topic of how everything in the networked universe gets glued together using Web 2.0 tools and beyond. (The talk Mitch Kapor...
Richard Stallman's now-famous warnings about cloud computing (his verdict in a nutshell: It's "marketing hype") sparked a fresh round of debate in the blogosphere this week, along with some outbursts of incredulity. Stallman...
