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If you can't beat them, fine them II

There's a little debate going back and forth about the topic I posted about here.  For my part, I have no issue with most of what the EU has been able to accomplish with respect to Microsoft abusing its monopoly position.  In fact, I give them kudos for

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Tory Party promises an Open Source Britain, if elected

Matthew Aslett points out that in reality, politicians are leveraging Open Source in their campaigns.  This runs contrary to the potential fantasy the Mr. Enderle cooked up.  From the article: Conservative shadow chancellor, George Osborne, has promised "that an incoming Conservative government would create a level playing field for

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If you can't beat them, fine them (The EU's wrong policy on Microsoft)

While I've agreed with many of the decisions the EU has made with respect to Microsoft, I have to admit that I don't agree with this one.  From the article: Neelie Kroes, antitrust chief for the European Commission, tried again last week to show Microsoft Corp.

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Is EnterpriseDB an Open Source Company II

A follow up to this post.  The debate continues.   It's certainly a somewhat complicated issue with nuances that people interpret differently, especially at the edges.  I still think coming up with a solid category name may help to alleviate the debate a bit, but alas have not come

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Google offers employees true choice on the desktop

Sure, the fact that "when you start work at Google, you get to choose whether you want a Mac, Windows, or Linux computer" shows how fundamentally Google gets some things.  That's not why I find this article interesting though.  There are two very good snippets in

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Is EnterpriseDB an Open Source Company

Sparked by a post mentioned here, there is now a healthy debate going on about whether companies like EnterpriseDB are Open Source or not.  Allison is one who says yes, while Matt Asay says no.  As usual, CBR has some very good coverage. I've thought about the topic

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The LQ Wiki is now an OpenID Consumer

As promised, the LQ Wiki now allows you to log in using OpenID.  You can convert an existing account if you have one, or simply login with an OpenID as a completely new user and start editing.  I'd like to thank Evan, whose extension made adding this relatively

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Is "Open Source" Now Completely Meaningless?

Nat is building the OSCON schedule, and asks: Is "Open Source" Now Completely Meaningless?  From the post: I've found some very strange companies claiming to be open source. Can you really call yourself open source if you haven't opened the source? I don'

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The Free Desktop

Bryce Harrington has posted an insightful commentary on running free software communities.  A couple highlights: It's easy to just copy what the proprietary guys do. After all, we like to think they're doing scientific market research and usability studies to uncover user needs. Or at the

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Rob Enderle; Linux: Cuba and the Communist Connection - Promoting "Fear"

(via Matt Aslett):  I haven't blogged about Rob Enderle for quite some time, but he may have outdone himself here.  In this post, Enderle warns that the Cuban adoption of Linux could lead to it being considered anti-American.  It doesn't stop there though: Linux, which isn&

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Hopefully my last Novell Microsoft Agreement Post; or Nobody reads this stuff

I wasn't going to post any more about the Novell Microsoft Agreement.  I don't have anything else to add and really what else can be said.  Don has posted on this issue after Novell contacted him as a result of him comparing the deal to "

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Show Us The Code

Just stumbled across the Show Us Your Code site.  I think it's well intentioned, but misses a few things.  First and foremost (and take this as constructive feedback please), if you are going to publish an open letter that you want to get taken seriously, you really need

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Who writes the Linux kernel?

An informative post over at LWN (via Matt Asay) about the code contributed to the 2.6.20 kernel, followed by the last year of kernel changes.  The result?  As far as companies go, Red Hat is by far in the lead as far as both number of changesets and

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Ballmer repeats threats against Linux

Novell execs must cringe when they see things like this: Steve Ballmer has reissued Microsoft's patent threat against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his company's intellectual property. In a no-nonsense presentation to New York financial analysts last week, Microsoft's chief executive

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The Dell Idea Storm

Dell recently released Idea Storm, "Where Your Ideas Reign".  Basically, it's a Digg like site where you can submit ideas and feedback and other Dell community members can vote on them.  I'm not sure Dell know what was in store for them.  The top

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Quick OpenID Update

A quick follow-up to this post.  OpenID has really been on fire the last month or so.  Support from the likes of AOL and Microsoft have been announced, a future version of Firefox will likely support it and Yahoo! has a sort of unofficial support for it.  As my previous

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2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced

The polls are closed, the data has been audited and the results are in. Here are the official results for the 2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards: Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (26.44%) Live Distribution of the Year - Knoppix (26.22%) Browser of the Year - Firefox

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Linux on Delta

I ran into the exact same screen during my Delta flight to LAX last week.  The reboot occurred for me when the power seemed to blip for a second.  I too was surprised that there was no customized boothsplash.  From what I could tell during boot it's a

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The Nokia N800

After a long series of delays I am still in the airport waiting to fly home.  They hope I'll be able to make it home tonight by about 2:30AM, but there are no guarantees.  JFK is a huge mess.  On to more interesting news, at the LinuxWorld

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LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit Wrap-up

The Summit is now officially over.  All and all a good show.  The 'Ask the Experts' panel was the first unconference like event held at a LinuxWorld and based on this one they will likely move forward with future ones, which I was glad to hear.  We tried

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Red Hat joins Microsoft interop initiative

A post in CBR points out that Red Hat has joined Microsoft's Interop Vendor Alliance.  As the article points out though, this seems to be related to JBoss only (remember that JBoss was already working directly with Microsoft on interoperability).  There is no mention of any other Red

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See you in NYC

My plane leaves in a couple hours (yes, packing would probably be a more judicious use of my time right now than blogging) and if the weather cooperates I should be in NYC by 6PM.  A reminder that if you're in the area make sure to check out

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Free Linux Driver Development Questions and Answers

A quick follow up to this post.  It's wonderful to see that Greg's Linux driver announcement got so many responses that he had to write a FAQ.  I'd like to highlight one point from the FAQ: Q: This is a lame publicity stunt, Linux

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Novell-Microsoft pact not about interoperability, says Open Source leader

Don Marti recently posted an outstanding interview with Jeremy Allison.  One item covered in the article was rumors that some companies have been paying Microsoft for patent licensing to cover their use of Open Source, even previous to the recent Novell deal.  From the interview: LinuxWorld: One of the persistent

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IBM aims to lower cost of using Linux, Apple PCs

This article contains an announcement that I think may be interesting.  The one problem is that I can't actually figure out exactly what it is.  From the article: IBM said on Sunday it will offer an open desktop software system for businesses that puts the cost of managing