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Timothy Lee writes a compelling argument against software patents in the New York Times today. It's the very same argument that Bill Gates advanced back in 1991 against software patents, but now has done a complete about-face. As Lee writes:[I]n
An excellent op-ed from the WSJ today about how the world (as a whole) has improved economically (and dramatically so) over the past few centuries.Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened.
I'm not sure where Microsoft keeps finding the goofball Linux distributors that rush to market with a "Microsoft + Novell/Xandros = Big interoperability win/patent safety win for our customers!!!!" theme, and then release something lik
A propsed bill would study using open standards for government documents, though even if passed, it is no guarantee that the state will adopt ODF
Luis Villa pointed me to a paper that I had already downloaded, but had yet to read. At his prompting, I went through it this morning (My vacation had already been interrupted by a night of sick children) and though the author, Sapna Kumar of Duke Un
Technology companies are reaching out to the 4 billion people not yet connected to the Internet
John Scott has the latest on the US Navy's use of open source. John tracks the US government's open source policies pretty closely, and is generally the first place to see this kind of information surface. As he notes,The “User Guidan
You could spend a lot of money on proprietary virtualization technology and run it on UNIX. Or you could get the same (or better) performance out of Xen on Linux, like Audi and BMW are doing. As Softpedia writes:BMW and Audi car makers rely on Novell
This is perhaps the first I've ever heard someone credibly say that Microsoft must now live by open source's rules, or suffer. As Marten Mickos (CEO, MySQL) told The Register, If you won't work with MySQL, PHP and Ruby then you are los
Ostensibly, SAP is the loser as Oracle moves past it in mid-market enterprise software [Sub'n required]. But the real loser in this is Microsoft, which has owned the consumer through SME market for many years. Microsoft has won this market throu