April 29, 2010
by sjvn01
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For years, Microsoft has made patent threats against Linux. Mind you, Microsoft has never proven, or even attempted to prove, any of these claims. That hasn’t, however, stopped Microsoft from using the threat of Linux patent lawsuit to force companies … Continue reading
April 21, 2010
by sjvn01
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Who can blame Adobe for being ticked off? They wanted a slice of the lucrative Apple iPad/iPhone application business, and Apple won’t let Adobe applications, or even Flash, on either platform. So, first Adobe started cussing Apple out, then Adobe … Continue reading
April 19, 2010
by sjvn01
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OK, hands up, who, like me, was a one time IBM OS/2 user? What? You don’t know OS/2? It was IBM, and briefly, Microsoft’s 32-bit server and desktop operating system that was going to change the world. Then, Bill Gates … Continue reading
April 13, 2010
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For a while now, Internet video was simple. You used Adobe Flash, with its 95% plus market share, and that was that. Then things changed. The next Web standard, HTML 5, came along, but it didn’t spell out that Flash … Continue reading
April 12, 2010
by sjvn01
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After covering the war of words over IBM’s use of patents in a business dispute with French start-up TurboHercules and giving my two cents on this open-source family fight, I’d hope the matter would die down. I was wrong. Florien … Continue reading
March 24, 2010
by sjvn01
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I hereby officially proclaim Internet Explorer 6 to be a dead browser walking. Even though IE6 still somehow manages to keep 19.8% of the Web browser market, IE6 is a late Web browser! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it … Continue reading