MS – Doing To ISO What Borat Wanted To Do To Pamela Temmuz 20, 2007
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The normally boring world of international standards has turned into a bloody fist fight between the most brutal monopolist of modern times, and the Community…Microsoft is trying to do to ISO what Borat wanted to do to Pamela.
http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Fighting_OOXML-1/
Samba Adopts GPLv3 for Future Releases Temmuz 17, 2007
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After internal consideration in the Samba Team we have decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses for all future releases of Samba.
Link:
http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/
GPLv3 attracts 116 projects in first week Temmuz 17, 2007
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“The third version of the General Public Licence (GPLv3) has been adopted by 116 open source projects in its first week of operation.”
Cheap, hackable Linux smartphone due soon Temmuz 17, 2007
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FIC will begin shipping a completely open, Linux-based, GPS-equipped, quad-band GSM/GPRS phone direct, worldwide, for $350 or less, in early 2007. The phone will also be the first to run a brand new, open-source Linux phone OS.
Links:
www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2986976174.html
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973
InformationWeek fabricates GPLv3 scoop – here is how Temmuz 15, 2007
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InformationWeek’s article on the GPLv3 is misrepresenting, or simply wrong. The title should have been “LIinus calls GPLv3 ‘a fine choice’” would have been a more appropriate article. See where the article came from, and how InformationWeek managed to twist the facts to create a scoop.
Using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu and any other operating system Temmuz 5, 2007
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GNU/Linux can be scary to a new user. After all, what if you mess up? What if you end up corrupting your hard drive so badly that you need to format it to get rid of GNU/Linux? The solution is to use virtualization technology. A virtual machine creates a virtual hard drive as well as a virtual computer…
Motorola’s “open source” Service Availability Framework is not open source Temmuz 5, 2007
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Motorola released their “open source” Service Availability Framework. However, The license of OpenSAF isn’t really open source after all – it’s a mixture of GPL and MPL, with extra parts aimed at making sure that essential freedoms are prevented. This article highlights in red and blue where Motorola’s license comes from. Enjoy!
