FSF in Round Two Against Software Patents
Feb 24, 2009The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is persisting in its worldwide battle against software patents with comprehensive background information and has hired lobbyist Ciaran O'Riordan to fight the next round.
more »Pocket Office: Portable OpenOffice 3.0.1 for Windows and Wine
Feb 24, 2009The new OpenOffice 3.0.1 is the release of a portable, USB loadable version of OpenOffice.
more »Bash 4.0 Introduces Associative Arrays
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more »Cloud Computing with Ubuntu 9.10
Feb 23, 2009Scheduled for release in October, Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala will come with server cloud computing and a new desktop design.
more »Industry Consortium Rivalry over Crypto Standards
Feb 20, 2009The idea of an industry-wide common cryptography standard is certainly welcome. But self-interest usually precedes usability, so two industry consortiums are now vying over which standards to adopt, one on the side of Sun and the other leaning toward IBM/HP. Then there is an additional player in the Trusted Computing Group.
more »QT Axes Jambi: Possible Future as Community Project?
Feb 20, 2009The coming March release of QT Jambi will probably be the last. QT Software will discontinue support for the Java version.
more »Linux Chrome with Gtk+: Cross-Platform Complication
Feb 19, 2009If Google were to use Qt, things would be much simpler and Chrome would have a unified interface under Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. But Google isn't satisfied with Qt.
more »Red Hat Seeks Defense Against Patent Lawsuit
Feb 19, 2009In October 2007 IP Innovation filed a lawsuit against Novell and Red Hat for violation of certain virtual desktop patents. Red Hat is now asking the community for help to invalidate it.
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