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Also included: Remembering Vernon Adams, Red Hat vs. VMware, a new distro release, openSUSE Leap and ransomware that deletes files. FOSS Week in Review The summer of ’16 is all but over. Good riddance. Here in my piece of the woods we’ve seen all of the 90 plus days with high […] Continue reading Redesigning Tor, Goodbye OpenOffice & More… 
Also included: Fedora and RHEL working for better laptop support, one new distro release and All Things Open announces tentative schedule. FOSS Week In Review Look on the bright side. We’re a third of the way through August, meaning autumn is just around the corner. Also, Oracle’s still having trouble getting its cloud […] Continue reading SUSE Apes Oracle, Lithuania Goes LibreOffice & More… 
Deep in the heart of Texas, the Heart of Linux delves into the heart of the Texas Linux Fest. A good time was had by all. The Heart of Linux Texas Linux Fest 2016 is in the books, safely tucked away in the annals of free open source history, The wonderful […] Continue reading Having a Gas at Texas Linux Fest 2016 Also included: LinuxQuestions.org has a birthday, six new distro releases, Ubuntu considering dropping 32-bit support and the feds were after Snowden. FOSS Week in Review Happy birthday America. And happy birthday to LinuxQuestions.org. America, more correctly known as United States of America since we’re not the only country on this big […] Continue reading Oracle Loses Again, Red Hat Competes With FOSS & More… 
Do you love Microsoft? Dr. Roy Schestowitz doesn’t. He also led a “Boycott Novell” movement back when there was a Novell to boycott, and he has crusaded against other tech companies, especially regarding software patents. It is, as they say, “Clean indoor work, but somebody has to do it.” And Roy is that somebody. […] Continue reading Techright’s Roy Schestowitz on All Things Free Tech 
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 While Facebook and Google work to better identify you by your typing skills and Red Hat counts the bucks from its best ever year, Ubuntu finally makes it possible to launch from the bottom. If you depend only on mainstream tech media’s coverage of FOSS, you might be excused […] Continue reading Ethical Hackers Unethically Hacked, Keystroke IDs & More… 
In 2006, Oracle began trying to abscond with RHEL’s paying user base. On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it’s now going to give Oracle a similar treatment. What’s that they say about paybacks? Microsoft has declared war on Oracle, which is the type of story I wish was on Netflix. If it were, I’d make some […] Continue reading Microsoft Does to Oracle What Oracle Tried To Do to Red Hat |
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