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Also included: Libreboot leaves GNU, municipal broadband law proposed, Linux’s second 25th birthday, a new distro release, Vim and Emacs both get upgrades, Google’s hack challenge and Oracle can’t catch a break. FOSS Week in Review Yesterday I got a look at some decidedly old tech: Rope beds, pewter being made […] Continue reading Nextcloud’s $79 Box, Vim Gets an Update & More… 
Also included: Google in a TKO over Oracle, four distro releases and Microsoft’s latest trick to force Windows 10 upgrades. FOSS Week in Review Today I’m finally old enough to officially take my seat on the council of the elders and let taxpayers pick up the tab for a large portion […] Continue reading SuperTux Returns, Proprietary Open Source & More… 
The Video Screening Room While the initial reaction from the FOSS community to Android Apps on Chromebooks will probably be a little cooler than lukewarm, the fact is that this might eventually be good for free and open source software. When Google announced this week that future Chromebooks (and some current ones) will […] Continue reading A Look at Android Apps on Chromebook 
FOSS Week in Review Also, eight new distro releases, CoreOS raises another $28 million, Mint drops codecs and the women of open source. The most reported FOSS story this week was the beginning of the court fight instigated by Oracle against Google over Android’s Java implementation. Most interesting as the proceedings get going […] Continue reading Italian Military Goes LibreOffice, HBO Abuses DMCA & More… 
FOSS Week in Review India again shows sanity by doing away with “software only” patents, and the Linux Foundation continues to move towards diversity. The old and the new both made big news on the FOSS front this week. Representing the old was what appears to be the ending of the SCO vs IBM case […] Continue reading India Nixes Software Patents, Linux Foundation Embraces Diversity & More… 
The tracking policies of the major online advertising networks are threatening the future of free content on the Internet. Back in the late 1980s, cigarette smoking was permitted in supermarkets where I live, but there was a move afoot — a ballot issue I believe — to put an end to that. At the time […] Continue reading Why Internet Advertising Needs to Be Regulated 
The Heart of Linux “You’ve got mail compromised mail!” The emails started coming in slowly at first. Friends and colleagues were telling me that my Gmail address was pushing out spam. “Spam? Really?” My first inclination was to push those emails aside as a temporary albeit bothersome incident. Something similar had happened a few years […] Continue reading Gmail and a Can of Spam 
FOSS Week in Review Wow. It certainly didn’t take long after the holidays for the FOSS news wire to heat up again. It’s like all the newsmakers have been chomping at the bit to get back to work doing what they do best, which would be, well, making news. Let’s start with some breaking news […] Continue reading Shuttleworth at SCALE, Google Rolls Over & More… |
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