Tag Archives: Open Source

Is Skype bucking the Open trend?

Posted on December 7, 2007 by

This open stuff is really taking off! Google announced Android, their open source mobile phone platform, OpenID 2.0 has been launched and even AT&T are announcing that they are Opening their networks! Against that backdrop I was surprised to hear … Continue reading →

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Microsoft will Open Source Windows (or die!)

Posted on September 25, 2007 by

I have said on a number of occasions that Microsoft should Open Source their Windows Operating System (and their Internet Explorer). However, it bears repeating. I realise it is unlikely to happen in the near term but, I firmly believe … Continue reading →

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Are IBM, Google and Sun ganging up on Microsoft?

Posted on September 18, 2007 by

I see IBM are now jumping into the free Office software arena by launching IBM Lotus Symphony. IBM Lotus Symphony is a free download from the IBM site (registration required). Up until now, Microsoft’s competition in this space has come … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu first impressions

Posted on September 17, 2007 by

Using Wubi, I installed Ubuntu onto my Vaio laptop over the weekend (Ubuntu is a Linux distro – an open source operating system). Apart from some nervousness on my part about losing any info from my Windows partition, the install … Continue reading →

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Backup software for Vista?

Posted on September 16, 2007 by

I want to install a copy of Ubuntu on my laptop. However, when Vista was installed on it, a single partition was made of the hard drive so if I try to install Ubuntu now, it will overwrite the Vista … Continue reading →

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Marcio Galli's talk in Cork

Posted on August 9, 2007 by

Fair dues to Damien Mulley and it@cork for putting on a great Firefox event last night. Marcio Galli is a Consulting Software Developer at Mozilla Foundation based in Brazil. He gave a fascinating talk entitled “Talk: Read, Write, and Recycle … Continue reading →

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Summer book recommendations II

Posted on August 7, 2007 by

Back at the end of June I posted about three books I had bought to read on my holidays. The three books were: David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur and Don Tapscott’s Wikinomics: How … Continue reading →

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Could Microsoft tackle piracy through Open Source?

Posted on July 25, 2007 by

Tom’s on holidays, I’ll be your host for today. My name’s Frank P, you might remember me from such blogs as “BifSniff.com”,” FestivalShirts.net/blog” and “Aonach.com/chatter”. Updated due to lateness of the hour when posting originally Well, despite being on holidays, … Continue reading →

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Sun's answer to the Microsoft litigation threat

Posted on May 15, 2007 by

Microsoft’s announcement yesterday that they are going to charge open source companies and users for patent infringement is largely being seen as an act of desperation a scare tactic to get enterprise open source users to pony up more money … Continue reading →

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Microsoft: "You are going to have to pay us for NOT using our products too!"

Posted on May 14, 2007 by

Microsoft have an image problem. You know they have. They know they have. Almost every time you see a Microsoft employee get up to speak they invariably start by meekly, almost apologetically, admitting they are from Microsoft. Why do they … Continue reading →

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