There are many misconceptions floating around about free and open source software (foss). The purpose of this article is to address them and to better inform people. The first response I seem to get when I discuss ‘free software’ is, oh…
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Microsoft’s nine-year software licencing deal with the New Zealand government has apparently collapsed according to the Inquirer today. In a statement, the State Services Commission (SSC) said that negotiations for another three-year extension of the agreement failed when it “became apparent during…
Continue reading...Saturday, April 18, 2009
eyeOS is an open source web desktop following the Cloud computing concept, but based on private cloud computing which protects your personal information and offers more security. It acts as a platform for web applications written using the eyeOS Toolkit. It includes a Desktop…
Continue reading...Monday, March 30, 2009
This week Richard Stallman has added to his earlier comments about web-based (so-called cloud) applications, which are mostly written in JavaScript, but sometimes in Flash. Stallman wants people to run free software so that they can read and change the source…
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The UK’s Open Source Consortium has accused the Open University of breaching its founding principles. The Open University came about in the 1960’s as a move towards making university education available to all regardless of income or gender. Given the sort of…
Continue reading...Monday, September 29, 2008
It is great to hear that at least one Open Source company has now made it onto Becta’s official list of suppliers to the UK education sector. As usual it’s all about money. The Open Source community has always advocated that schools in the UK…
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Most people know that stet was the first Web2.0 application, its the software that was built to facilitate public consultation during the Version 3 draft process of the GNU General Public License. I’ve been meaning to write something about Bradley Kuhn and the…
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 15, 2008
From Slashdot: mako writes “The FSF just announced the results of a meeting it held on software freedom and network services. They are hailing the launch of a new group called Autonomo.us to follow up on these issues and the publication of…
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