Linux LinuxWorld UK Wrapup With LinuxWorld come and gone, here's a quick wrapup. London was once again a great time. While I was extremely late the first day, I still had a full day to explore the city. Between this year and last year I got to see a fair bit of
Linux Returned from LinuxWorld Back in NY from London and as you probably noticed the blog wasn't uploaded once. Unfortunately, the wifi in London was either extremely poor (at LWE) or fairly expensive (about $11/hour at the hotel). When you couple that with how busy things were, the blog just didn&
Linux London Bound My plane leaves in a couple hours, so it's time to start packing. Remember, if you'll be anywhere near London on October 5-6, make sure to stop into LWE UK in Olympia2. I'll be stationed in the LQ booth, which is located in the
Main Page Massachusetts Finalizes Plan to Use the OpenDocument Standard II A follow up to this post. I was more then a bit perturbed when I read this "open letter", from Alan Yates. It seems some people within Microsoft just aren't ready to compete fairly. He is brazen enough to bring up words like due process and
Main Page Massachusetts Finalizes Plan to Use the OpenDocument Standard It's great to see that Massachusetts has finalized its plan to stop using proprietary document formats and standardize on the OASIS OpenDocument format. This wasn't about "ditching Microsoft", as many outlets seem to be reporting. In fact, it's not about a specific
Linux The LSB and its Current Implementation Ulrich has some problems with the LSB standard. He makes some outstanding points and is clearly an extremely smart guy. The problem as I see it is that the current LSB is broken and badly broken at that. When the answer to a bug report is "use a slow
Linux Dell Releases its First Linux Consumer Product with Mandriva "Dell releases its first Linux consumer product with Mandriva"... or at least that's what the press release says. As I've mentioned on this blog many times in the past, a real OEM deal is critical to the success of Linux on the mainstream desktop.
Main Page Microsoft Admits to Learning from Open Source It was great to see that Microsoft actually publicly admitted that it learned something from an Open Source app. From the article: "We've learned from Apache," acknowledged Bill Staples, product unit manager for IIS. Version 7.0 takes the IIS feature set and breaks it down
