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- Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy
- Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess
- Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Microsoft partners to allow Eclipse interop on Win7, WinServer 2008 R2, Azure
- Eclipse should decline the 'plug ins'M$ only ries to extend and extinguish here folks!Self interests always......Isn't that what most things revolve around? I'm sure that if Linux had a chance to extend and draw to its platform by working with Microsoft it would, unless they are too stupid to...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Mac ZFS is dead: RIP.
- fortunatelywhile zfs is cool, there are enough other file systems, so we users won't miss it muchHow about EXT4 and BTRFS?What do you think of EXT4 and it's destined successor, BTRFS?NTFSActualy has similar features to most of these but maybe its not implemented as well.Apple picks NetApp WAFL over...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- R for Mac OS X 2.10.0 (Mac)
- R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of...
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
- You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Updegrove: Obama should give FOSS equal treatment
- ConsortiumInfo.org's Andy Updegrove urged President Obama to show more public support for free and open source software. In a blog featured on the site today, Updegrove said open source has made huge inroads in various government sectors, especially the Department of Defense, Â but it's high time that...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware
- Not much they can do.Not much they can do.Email was never designed for security, and it's HARD getting everybody on the same page with a solution that works, because basically every solution we know of pretty much requires everybody to use it. But, unfortunately, it's difficult convincing people running email...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Mozilla blocks dangerous MS .NET Firefox add-on
- RE: Mozilla blocks dangerous MS .NET Firefox add-onIf it had to be blacklisted or not I really don't care now. Implementing code without end user permission is enough reason. We all know MS ways so I am glad Mozilla people used this way and hope they keep doing it in...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- News to know: Google, IBM; AMD; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Earnings wrap: Sam Diaz: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring Larry Dignan: IBM...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- VA now loves its VistA software
- In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- The best protection for software assets
- Support and development."You have to reveal your invention. The rights don?t last that long."They do last too long, frankly. Software technology changes very fast. Most products are well beyond the end of their life cycle by the time a patent expires. Pretty much all of our IP stuff is way...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- On the future of Open Source thought leadership
- After over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is truly able to compromise with the realistic needs of business and end-users without carrying...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Will open source biology get anywhere?
- Any patent based on publicly funded researchshould be public domain as a matter of law. It is amazing that public money gets poured into research labs, and when a discovery is made it is handed over to Big Pharma along with all the intellectual property.Talk about yet another instance of...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Open source is sold and FOSS is not
- I'm confusedAre you advocating breaking the GPL license by selling GPL based products by 'open source' companies?We know NT Selling software is not a violation of the GPLSelling softare is not a violation of the GPL. Not in any way, shape or form. In the words of the...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- If open source were a monopoly
- As always thoughtful, Dana. But there's a related problem..Open Source projects are notoriously bad a promoting the unpopular decisions. As such you can see open source as a form of populism.If someone wants to do a clean break - the sort of break which move technology forward - you will...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.
- Richard M. Stallman RMS the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a "Traitor" for joining the Board of Directors of Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation as well as for his creation of the Microsoft .NET-compatible Mono software development...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Corporate open source is more vulnerable
- RE: Corporate open source is more vulnerableI feel so much better now that the government is moving toward open source.'Nuff said.RE: Corporate open source is more vulnerableI feel the title of this article is misleading. Vulnerable how? When discussing computing vulnerability usually refers to the security of the...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- IBM Helping Lay Enhanced Collaboration Foundations for US Bank
- Here's an interesting collaboration case history: US Bank, the 6th largest bank in the United States, are rationalizing around IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5, Quickr, and Sametime for their 58,000 employees. This week I spoke first with Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- News to know: Scareware; HP; SAP; Cloud computing
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: The ultimate guide to scareware protection Gallery: The ultimate guide to scareware protection 9/11...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
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