“Mozilla, which makes the Web browser, served up more than 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours, according to CEO John Lilly’s blog. At the height of the Firefox frenzy, Mozilla logged 17,000 downloads per minute, or 283 per second, and people in over 200 countries acquired the new software. The launch, planned for 10 a.m. [...]
“By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms,” predicts a Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, which sees a “stealth” impact for the technology in embedded form: “Users who reject open source for technical, legal or business reasons might find themselves unintentionally using open [...]
MICROSOFT may have to resist popping the champagne cork over gaining ISO approval for its controversial Office Open XML file format as an international standard.
Brazil has filed a letter asking that ISO’s approval of OOXML be reconsidered. South Africa was the first to file a formal appeal. India has also filed an appeal and now [...]
Microsoft Office Service Pack 2 will have support for ODF and PDF, which is expected to be out in the first half of 2009, according to a confidential Microsoft press release viewed by the [...]
Linux may be a free platform for many and a reasonably inexpensive alternative to Unix and proprietary platforms for others, but make no mistake. For years, Linux has been big business, and if projections made by the market researchers at IDC turn out to be correct, in a few short years the Linux server ecosystem [...]
Formula One motor racing is no longer about famous car marques, its about precise science and using technology to shave another fraction of a second off a lap time, and Linux is playing a pivotal role in helping the race teams achieve this.
As a technical sport motor racing demands of its participants a close understanding [...]
Open source continues moving from strength-to-strength, especially true in international markets, where skeptics once believed pirated Windows would dominate.
ApacheCon Europe grew 40% this year.
Open source trade groups are growing across Asia, driven by support from big vendors.
Open source is extending ever-further outward, to storage, training and moviemaking.
“…… pointing to the Open Source poster on the wall, I said, “Didn’t you hear? Hell has frozen over?” :)”
“Last Friday, March 28th, 2008 was Microsoft’s first company-wide Open Source Day. This was a significant event and milestone in the company’s move towards openness and was made freely available to any employee interested in attending. [...]
The European Union yesterday announced that it will invest US$1 million in a study to find the best open source tools for use in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The grant of €703 000 was awarded to a consortium of 11 members, including Canonical, backers of Ubuntu Linix, and the University of the Western Cape. [...]
Bill Gates welcomed the world to a new breed of “kinder capitalism” at Davos this week. Conveniently forgetting his past, Mr. Gates declared:
We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
We have. It’s called open source. Open source is “kinder” by design, [...]
The Economist makes three technology predictions for 2008, two of which concern web surfing and the third of which concerns everyone, whether they surf the web or not. The Economist’s third prediction is that the technology world will open up:
The embrace of “openness” by firms that have grown fat on closed, proprietary technology is [...]
“The year 2007 has been the most active year for legal developments in the history of free and open source (“FOSS”). In fact, you would have been hard pressed in past years to enumerate even five important legal developments. However 2007 permits the creation of a traditional “top ten” list.”
Interested what goes behind the curtain [...]
A streaming version of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s iPlayer online TV on-demand service has been launched for the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.
BBC iPlayer (formerly known as iMP, Integrated Media Player, Interactive Media Player, and MyBBCPlayer) is a website and computer program being developed by the BBC to extend its existing RealPlayer-based “Radio Player” and [...]
Little old stat but still … Distrowatch Weekly Newsletter noted back in it’s 13th August 2007 issue that Asia is fast catching up with the readership of Distrowatch.com website, which roughly translates to a keen interest in keeping in touch with, and downloading, various GNU/Linux and BSD distributions. The following table should shed some light [...]
Just few days ago Miro, billed as ‘Groundbreaking Internet TV software“, the open and free video player, has gone 1.0, and launched in a polished, slick package for Linux, Mac and Windows. Miro (formerly Democracy Player) is the open and free alternative to Joost, Windows Media Player and iTunes for getting, watching and organizing your [...]
I do not agree with all the point of views of what Richard has to tell, but then again it is a good article to go through quickly.
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Mark Shuttleworth, software entrepreneur and space tourist, believes that open-source software is not just for geeks. AS HE lays out his vision for the future of open-source software, Mark Shuttleworth is enthusiastic, but he looks tired. He has been up late negotiating yet another deal as part of his mission to bring open source to [...]
As urgent appeals for lawmakers to finally address multiple defects in US patent law appear to finally be taken seriously, the US Patent and Trademark Office is considering riding this wave of upheaval and making a tremendous change of its own: Last week, it announced its official support of a Web site whose purpose will [...]
Доклад к научной конференции 2007 г. Славянского-на-Кубани Государственного Педагогического Института
В связи с последними событиями в России, и возросшими требованиями к лицензированию ПО, все большее количество людей, по своей воле, или вынуждено, задумывается о том, что делать в сложившейся ситуации. Корпорация Майкрософт достаточно долгое время была равнодушна к пиратству в России, и похоже, [...]
The final version of the GNU General Public License 3.0 should be published before the end of June, bringing to an end some 18 months of discussions around the new license, the Free Software Foundation said on May 31.
The FSF also released the fourth and final draft of GPL version 3 on May 31, [...]
A software developer from JPL explains the reasons that NASA has embraced free and open source software in its application development process. Because, in a Mars launch, the term “mission critical” has a literal meaning.
What did the rocket scientist say to the Free/Open Source Software developer? Let’s do launch! It’s only natural that they’d [...]
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched PlayOgg.org, a campaign to encourage use of the patent- and license-free standard Ogg Vorbis as an ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to the proprietary MP3 format.
In its ongoing battle against software patents, the Free Software Foundation has launched PlayOGG.org, a campaign to promote the use of [...]
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