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Friday FOSS Week in Review Here we go, Friday FOSS Week in Review, Special Tuesday Edition. I’ve got to find a way to schedule my time better so I can stay on deadline. This coming Friday’s going to be difficult, as I have a dentist appointment and FWIR can’t really be written in advance, so expect [...] Friday FOSS Week in Review It’s been a busy week. So busy, in fact, I was unable to make my deadline for FWIR, so here I am with a special Saturday edition. Just so you know, there’s a precedent for this. Back in the days when ABC ran “Monday Night Football” they called any NFL game [...] Friday FOSS Week in Review Another typical week in the FOSS world. Mainly, the proprietary guys have been busy bad-mouthing the competition, while the FOSS folks have been busy finding solutions. ESR Defends RMS on Jobs This week I ran across a blog by Eric Raymond that was posted on October 8, in which Raymond defends the now [...] Friday FOSS Week in Review It would seem to be another slow week in the FOSS news world. As always however, there were a few tidbits, and the passing of a computer pioneer who’s work has effected everyone who’s ever sat in front of a monitor and keyboard. U.S. Predator and Reaper Drones Hit by Virus…or Not We [...] Friday FOSS Week in Review It was already a slow week when the news came on Wednesday of Steve Jobs’ demise. Since then, most tech sites have been reporting on not much else. As always, however, there were a few things to note… Privacy Issues with Kindle Fire’s Silk Browser Almost as soon as Amazon unveiled their new [...] Today, Apple announced that Steve Jobs has died at age 56. For our readership, there’s no need to explain Jobs’ life and career. Most visitors to this site will be well acquainted with his legacy. Jobs on stage at Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, January 11, 2005 (Wikipedia) The FOSS community has always had mixed feelings [...] Friday FOSS Week in Review The biggest news this week has centered around fears that Linux may become uninstallable on Wintel machines from the big OEM’s. But there’s been more. Some fun stuff. Some silly stuff. Some stuff that might eventually develop into something important… Secure Boot Has Penguinistas Buzzing Last week on FWIR I mentioned there was [...] Since Oracle obtained MySQL in the Sun takeover, many FOSS folks have been wary of Oracle’s plans for the open source database, a wariness that wasn’t eased by Oracle’s handling of the OpenOffice/LibreOffice split. When a couple of weeks ago we learned that Oracle has added three commercial extensions to MySQL, many figured that was [...] HP’s Board of Directors could’ve solved a lot of their problems with the single action of replacing failed CEO Léo Apotheker with a competent executive capable of managing a diversified (some would say bloated) giant like HP. The CEO job would not be a position to fill with haste, which the board seems to have [...] Friday FOSS Week in Review This week’s biggest story in FOSS was the quick changing of the guard over at HP. Although HP isn’t really a FOSS company, they do of course sell Linux servers and were recently considered to be on the verge of becoming a major FOSS player with their webOS. There’s no need [...] |
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