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Category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD.
Older news on SCOThis article tells the story of SCO filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the decision of a federal judge who ruled in August that Novell, not SCO, owns the intellectual property to the Unix operating system.
Written by cdriga on September 25th, 2007 with no comments.
Category: Legalese and OPEN SOURCE WORLD.
OpenDocument is now ISO 26300 standardQuoting from consortiuminfo.org:
Written by cdriga on May 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
Category: Legalese and OpenOffice.org.
Get Legal, Get OpenOffice.org - Campaign against software piracyPress release
Written by cdriga on May 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
Category: Legalese and OPEN SOURCE WORLD.
Avoid pirated softwareThere is a huge push on the software market at the moment for discouraging the usage of pirated software around the world and for detecting those who are using illegal software copies either for personal or for business purposes. There are even bounties for those reporting people and companies using illegal copies of software. Can […]
Written by cdriga on May 1st, 2006 with no comments.
Category: FUD detector and OPEN SOURCE WORLD.
GoodSpeedIn today’s computing technology, when you have more horse-power in the cheapest computers on the market than you would’ve dreamed say 5 years ago, one almost ridiculous aspect of the battle between open vs closed source software and open standards vs closed standards is the so called “fight of proving that my application is faster […]
Written by theFUDterrier on April 17th, 2006 with no comments.
Category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD.
Why technical writers aren’t using FOSS“What I chiefly noticed was how little knowledge about FOSS had reached the average tech writer. And if such relatively expert computer users knew so little, what chance can there be of FOSS ideals motivating the everyday user? If the responses I received were typical, the day that a FOSS desktop is on every computer […]
Written by cdriga on April 14th, 2006 with no comments.
Category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD and OpenOffice.org.
Why open standards matter[…] He went on to show the audience, through another word picture describing a 1904 fire in Baltimore, how open standards can prevent unhealthy dependence on one vendor. “Firefighters were called in from all the surrounding states,” Wheeler said. “But all they could do was stand and watch the building burn, because their firehoses would […]
Written by cdriga on April 10th, 2006 with no comments.
Category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD and OpenOffice.org.
Being open-mindedThis is what it takes to be able to truly evaluate other software solutions. The existing offer is great and the alternatives might be better than what you are currently using: operating systems, office suites, graphics applications, etc. You only need to open your mind when trying these applications in a few work sessions and […]
Written by cdriga on April 9th, 2006 with no comments.
Category: OpenOffice.org.
Portable OpenOffice.org 2.0.2One of the greatest application hacks I’ve used a lot in the last month is the portable version of the OpenOffice.org office suite (includes Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentations, Database and Drawing applications and it’s totally free) which can be run from any USB pen-drive without the need to install it. I simply downloaded, unzipped and […]
Written by cdriga on April 8th, 2006 with no comments.
Category: FUD detector.
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High migration costs holding back LinuxVnunet (http://www.vnunet.com) has a great article in which they speak about one flavor of Linux maintained by a big company and draws the conclusion that Linux in general is not to be used yet.
Written by cdriga on April 8th, 2006 with no comments. |
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