code culture: "It's easy to get caught up in the doom and gloom over OLPC's future. But keep things in perspective: they aren't as bad as they seem..."
Socialized Software: "Bill Gates steps down as the Chairman of Microsoft on July 1st to transition to full time philanthropic efforts with the Gates Foundation. However, I wonder how effective Bill will be other than writing checks. You see Bill's
The Open Road: "Before I leave, however, I figured it would be good to note (and then bury) three myths that I heard perpetuated by Microsoft at the Interop Moscow conference..."
Editor's Note: Not too excited with the desktop? Ubuntu updates making you yawn? A look at one future of desktop development may have you reaching for those shades...
The Open Road: "As a case in point, Van explicates the Great Divide between those who love and loathe the GPL by citing a post on the Python mailing list about a controversial bit of code called setuptools..."
ITPro: "Microsoft's troubles in Europe are far from over, as Neelie Kroes, The EU competition commissioner, has warned. We review the past and future options for Microsoft and the European Commission..."
Mozilla Links: "XiTi Monitor has released the latest numbers on browsers utilization in Europe and the rest of the world, announcing it has reached about 29% in March 2008..."
LinuxWorld: "Linux in the data center brings with it a dilemma: more boxes to manage... With management tools in the picture, the total cost of ownership may actually increase instead of decrease when Linux is brought in..."
eWeek: "Canonical has marshaled the best of what the open-source world has to offer in Ubuntu 8.04, a Linux-based operating system that's capable of mounting a serious challenge to Microsoft Windows on mainstream desktops and notebooks..."
The Open Source Advocate: "The main concept is that Linux distributions, and open source in general, have a lot to gain by synchronizing their release schedules..."
ZDNet: "The launch of Microsoft's Live Mesh has a lot of people asking what this means for key competitors like Google or Adobe. But what does it mean for open source...?"
Brendan Scott's Weblog "One of the things I got to talk about there was some directions for FLOSS related policy--which turns out to be unusually relevant because the Australian Government is conducting a review into innovation in Australia..."
OSnews: "Enlightenment 0.17, the big, long awaited new release of the Enlightenment project, has been in the making for a long time now--since December 2000, to be precise..."
Linux.com: "Financial and ERP applications are arguably the last bastion of proprietary software giants, but the Kuali Foundation wants to eliminate those remaining barriers to open source enterprise systems..."
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