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Rejecting Mono II: Banshee Boogaloo
Background #1 If you follow the so-called “Mono Debate”, one of the most common defenses – to be very generous in calling it a defense – is that users don’t care about the language, platform or other such “plumbing” that the application was built upon. Background #2 The attempts at getting Banshee to replace Rhythmbox as [...]
Microsoft’s “anti-Linux” tactic
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Microsoft on October 3, 2010
Short, but interesting article over on Seattle Times, “Microsoft using anti-Linux tactic against Google’s Android“: The lawsuit Microsoft filed against Motorola and its use of Google’s Android phone software is awfully familiar. Microsoft used the same tactic against Linux when the open-source software reached critical mass in the data center and threatened to derail the [...]
de Icaza: “We collaborate with Microsoft”
Visual Studio Magazine, of the Redmond Developer Network, has up a short interview with Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza. There’s not much to see here, but I think some minor points shine through despite Mr. de Icaza’s best efforts. Consider the recent “busted myth” that Microsoft is involved in Mono development (which even in the myth-buster piece [...]
Novell in a two-part Fire Sale
The New York Post is reporting that Novell has “reached a deal in principle to sell itself in two parts” in the next month, culminating with Novell being de-listed. According to the Post, the breakdown is SUSE to a “strategic buyer” and the rest to a private-equity firm. Edited 17SEP2010: The Wall Street Journal is [...]
A newbie tries to install Ubuntu
One of the message boards I lurk on is The Straight Dope, a very interesting community where I dare say the representative member is a bit above average in intelligence, curiosity, and social graces. So it is with some interest I read “Give me a hand installing Ubuntu“, where a newcomer who wants to try [...]
Ubuntu Separatists
Out of the whole amusing Ubuntu-only Stack Exchange mess, I found one comment that I especially enjoyed: I’m sad that the Ubuntu separatists have chosen this. However, I see it as there own loss. They do not have the benefit of the experience of non-Ubuntu users. I myself have helped Ubuntu-ers in the past to do very [...]
Demystifying Akonadi
Sebastian Kügler has a very informative essay, covering lots of good stuff about Akonadi. KDE in General I’m very glad to see this sort of thing, for I have long lamented that KDE is not getting out good information on all the advances they are making. I’ve been on KDE 4.5 on my laptop since it [...]
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