August 18, 2011
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Vancouver, British Columbia—During his question and answer session at the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon, Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, revealed that while mainstream Linux and its popular smartphone and tablet son Google’s Android still aren’t as close as they should be, … Continue reading
August 4, 2011
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People debate how “open” various open-source projects all the time. In fact, the very way I made that statement is charged because I didn’t include the phrase “free software.” Sometimes these arguments get more serious though. For example, in VisionMobile, … Continue reading
August 3, 2011
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Those of us, who’ve known Linus Torvalds over the years, like yours truly, know that Linux’s inventor, Mr. Penguin if you will, is a quiet gentle soul who never raises his voice when something distributes him. Ahem. I lie like … Continue reading
July 25, 2011
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If you believe Oracle’s patent lawsuits against Google for its use of Java in Android, Google has stolen not just patented ideas but directly copied Java code. In short, Google is a red-handed thief and should pay Oracle over a … Continue reading
July 22, 2011
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Linux 3.0 is out and the big changes are… ah… well. Not much. Linus Torvalds, its creator and lead developer had warned us that this would be the case: “So what are the big changes?” “NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we … Continue reading
July 20, 2011
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When Novell’s new owner, Attachmate, announced that it was letting Miguel de Icaza, the founder and lead developer of Mono go, I assumed Mono, the open-source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET was a dead development platform walking. Even after de Icaza … Continue reading