Ruminations on the Digital Realm

My my. Who would have thought that Microsoft actually would dominate the discussions in the world of Linux and Open Source. In a fascinating article at Reuters Red Hat’s Matthew Szulik admitted that a year ago he and Microsoft were discussing some sort of patent deal. Yes, a similar deal that Novell and Microsoft agreed [...]

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We already now that Microsoft has it’s own open source software blog. We know that the Redmond Mogul is dipping it’s toes in sharing open source software. And after the deals with Novell, Linspire and Xandros we also know that something is brewing at Microsoft headquarters.
But a Microsoft that is actively promoting the use of [...]

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We are working on a book about Ubuntu Linux that aims at Windows users who want to migrate to Linux or are considering it. The book is a step-by-step migration guide, but also want to provide a wide overview of what Linux has to offer for office applications, multimedia (audio, video, graphics and webdesign) and [...]

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Tectonic has a brief overview of what Ubuntu 7.10 will bring to the Ubuntu world. Personally I am curious about KDE 4.0 which will be added as an optional package and the Ubuntu Mobile edition. I do have a Windows Mobile 2003 equiped iPaq 3850 and wouldn’t mind playing with Ubuntu on that. Other than [...]

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Adam Williamson was so kind to give us an early notification of a coming statement by the Mandriva management
This is the basic statement. It’s being cleaned up (language wise) for official publication.
“As far as patent protection is concerned, we are not great fans of software patents which we consider as counter productive. We also believe [...]

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