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Well, here we are, nowhere even close [...] Continue reading Back to the Future With Apple’s Rumored Smart Watch The FOSS community is understandably upset with both Red Hat and Ubuntu for their planned ways of implementing UEFI Secure Boot. Indeed, both companies plans are unacceptable for a variety of reasons. Free software isn’t free if it requires permission from an outside source before it can be loaded onto a new or used computer. This is true even if the permission comes from a well-meaning bureaucratic regulatory agency. It’s doubly true if that permission must come from a self-serving [...] Continue reading Red Hat & Ubuntu’s UEFI Solutions Not Good For FOSS Friday FOSS Week in Review Lot’s of stories of interest in the FOSS world this week. Patent issues, of course, dominated the news. In addition, however, a travel site got outed for a OS bias and a hardware manufacturer discovered the hard way that ignoring open source can be costly. We’ll start with the patent news… The Patent Wars Continue I don’t know what we’re going to do about the patent situation. The sensible thing would be to simply change [...] Continue reading Google’s Nexus Tablet; Maddog’s Blog; Patent News & More Friday FOSS Week in Review Gawd, but it’s been a long time since our last FOSS Week In Review. Many might be wondering where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing. Well, it’s a long story. I intend to tell you about it in another article in the next week or so. In the meantime, here’s a few things that caught my eye this week… Ubuntu working with HP on low power server We learned this week that Canonical is [...] Continue reading Ubuntu Works On Green Server, Bad Times At Nokia, Good News On the Patent Front Android on tablets and smartphones may have primed the public to be willing to try a flavor other than Windows on their PCs and laptops, but this means next to nothing in the current computing environment. Consumers are going to buy what’s on the shelves at Best Buy, or what jumps off the screen at them on Amazon.com or Dell’s site. None of these venues are going to feature Linux boxes, at least not where you can find them unless [...] Continue reading Welcome To Ubuntu’s Penguin Bar – How Can I Help You? |
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For the last couple of decades we’ve watched as our technology has caught up with the world of Star Trek much faster than Gene Roddenberry could ever have imagined back in the 1960s, when Kirk, Spock and the gang first rode into our living rooms, mostly in “non-living” or “dead” black and white, as not many of us had “living” color back then.