Posts Tagged Google
Ranking Google
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Open Source on August 6, 2010
Adam Williamson has a good series of “controversial crap” over on his blog, mainly discussing things related to the recent Red Hat/Canonical kerfuffle (but there are some other interesting bits as well). In his clarification post, this bit caught my attention: The reason I don’t complain much about Microsoft or Apple or Google is that I pretty [...]
Google to Open Source VP8?
Posted by Jason in Patent System, Propriatery Technology on April 13, 2010
NewTeeVee has up a posting announcing they have “learned from multiple sources” that Google will indeed be Open Source-ing the VP8 video codec. Furthermore, the announcement asserts that Mozilla Firefox will support VP8 for HTML5 video (along with Google Chrome, naturally). I mentioned in passing before the FSF request to Google to take this action, and if this news turns out [...]
Firefox in Ubuntu to be powered by Google after all
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 8, 2010
Old News Ubuntu was going to rely on Microsoft as the default search engine for 10.04. Let’s review the rationale: Why? I am pursuing this change because Canonical has negotiated a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo! and this revenue will help Canonical to provide developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and [...]
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