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Red Hat, ever the open source innovator, has kicked off a partnership with the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Research Campus to help germinate the open source mindset and mechanics in biotechnology, bioinformatics, public policy
Still here at Coss.fi (where I learned that I am Finnish - what a great country! I knew I'd fit in when the hardest drink anyone had for lunch was milk :-), and still learning a lot. Stephe Walli called out something this morning (and last night
I just finished presenting at the COSS.fi Verso open source program, and received a lot of useful feedback (both today and over dinner last night with Matti, Petri, Mikko, and Stephe Walli). I was discussing how difficult it was for proprietary vendo
I received a few different press releases over the past two weeks. (For those of you who don't send me information on your company, don't complain when you don't get mentioned. I have a day job. I can't scour the web for news on y
Linux.com has a juicy story about Microsoft's efforts to quash open standards legislation in Florida. No one (including Novell) should be surprised that Microsoft is talking out of both sides of its mouth on open source and open standards. It�
I just realized that I was setting myself locked into Google. They already have me for search and Gmail and I have to admit the new Powerpoint app does lower the barrier to get MS Office out of many places. Is it wrong for me to want to rebel? Despit
New plug-in resolves old problems and enables Media Player for Firefox to work with Vista
Yesterday, one of the industry's most interesting open source startups launched: Loopfuse. Founded by open source veterans Roy Russo (JBoss Portal) and Tom Elrod (JMX, JBoss Remoting), the company is designed to innovate on the work that proprie
David Wheeler has been keeping a comprehensive list of quantitative data on using open source software / free software as a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition. A snippet of the conclusions: OSS/FS has signific