April 15, 2010
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The Linux kernel panel at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is usually a glimpse into Linux’s future, but this week, it was also a reflection on how far Linux has come and how its leadership is growing older. This annual … 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
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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
April 9, 2010
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Do you know why Unix failed to take off as a mainstream operating system? It wasn’t because it was too hard to use. Mac OS X, the universally acclaimed ‘easy’ operating system is built on top of BSD Unix. It’s … Continue reading
April 9, 2010
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The recent attacks on IBM patent use by some in the open-source community are way out of line. First things first, I hate software patents as much as the next open-source supporter, but the recent claims that IBM has betrayed … Continue reading
April 7, 2010
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Right next to my desk in a bookshelf is my 1988 copy of Kernighan and Ritchie’s the second edition of The C Programming Language. I’ve kept this book, the ur-text of C programming, because C has always been the first … Continue reading