NoMachine takes NX closed source
Posted by Jason in Linux, Open Source on December 22, 2010
Wow, sad to hear that the new version of NX will be “only available under a closed source license“. NoMachine NX is a very good remote desktop application, with several free and open source implementations of the NX protocol. It – either in the form of the official NoMachine NX client or the FreeNX client [...]
Attachmate Statement on Open Source
Posted by Jason in Novell, Open Source on December 18, 2010
A recent SEC filing gives a preview of an upcoming Attachmate statement on Open Source, OpenSUSE and related matters: Attachmate Acquisition: What does it mean for SUSE, openSUSE & open source? —A Q&A with Jeff Hawn, chairman and CEO of Attachmate by Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE Community Manager at Novell I had a chance to speak with [...]
More Mono Misinformation Meticulously Dematerialized
Let’s look at some more Mono Misinformation, so the Gentle Reader can gain a sense of what one faces when braving the Wilds of Ignorance. Oh Twitter User, It’s So Cute When You Try So, as I parsed my enormous referrer logs, populated only with visits by Distinguished Guests of the Highest Caliber, I noticed [...]
On Mono Packaging
It’s almost nostalgic to be posting so often about Mono, but hopefully the Gentle Reader finds this post worth his valuable time. The Claim One of the common claims of the Mono proponent is that distribution packagers are splitting Mono into ECMA and non-ECMA packages. Debian and/or Ubuntu are commonly held up as examples in [...]
On The Microsoft Brand
After all the internet-is-serious-bizness Mono posts of late, it’s time for a silly post… just on something I noticed and found funny. I usually listen to The Adam Carolla Show - which is great by the way, check it out – and it recently picked up Bing as a sponsor. This means the host usually does [...]
Mono: Unsafe At Any Speed
Just a follow up expanding on the recent Banshee/ECMA stuff. Warning: long stretches of file lists within! You’ll often hear Team Apologista (when cornered) say something like: “Maybe not all of Mono is covered by the ECMA standard, but all the bits used in Linux programs are.” (Here’s just one example from the recent Reddit [...]
Banshee, Mono, and Reddit
Got a lot of traffic last day or two from Reddit, because someone linked to my brilliant treatise, “Mono Criticism == Uninformed Hatred?” Now, I usually don’t comment on other sites about Mono/Moonlight because 99.99% of the arguments that come up are simply repeats. In my opinion (a polite way of me saying “It is a [...]
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