Posts about Open Source Software as of April 5, 2009

IBM dropped its offer to acquire Sun for $7billion … out a strategy for making money by using Open Source software to lower the customer cost of things IBM … money. What did Sun gain from open sourcing Solaris, from giving away Java, from embracing Linux

As I write this, on Sunday evening, April 5th, it appears that the IBM/Sun deal is dead in the water … slowly, ever so slowly, decided it wanted to be an open-source software company instead of a closed … of the popular open-source DBMS (Database Management System). More

Dollhouse – Needs – bookspotcentral.com 04/06/2009 I feel like we are watching a marathon runner sprinting to win the race too early … are on Free/Open Source Software, Social Media, Free Culture, the Information Society and Copyright

April 5th, 2009 | by admin | Ars Technica has a first look at the latest beta release from the Fedora universe and it has several new shiny-bits … with the latest version of many popular open source software programs, including GNOME 2.26, KDE 4.2, and Xfce

Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own Product Description A world organized around centralized control, … -source software, Creative Commons licenses, Wikipedia, remix music and video mashups, peer production … . A radically different order of society based on open access, decentralized creativity,

I have compiled a list of free e-books that I’ve been reading in the last few years. Most are on Free/Open Source Software, Social Media, Free Culture, the Information Society … are rightly touted—but their applications can be similarly monitored and eliminated from a central source

Talking about the Open source software it can be defined as an attached license which holds certain rights granted to the original creator by copyright law. Open Source software holds a source code which helps the employees to modify … received open source software. It aims at the creation of a model for technical support to open source

I love the work that Matthew Landauer and a small group of non-partisan, patriotic Australians have done to set up OpenAustralia … is modeled on (and uses the open-source software developed for) a similar (not-for-profit) UK site

April 5th, 2009 | by Linux Blogger | Ars Technica has a first look at the latest beta release from the Fedora universe and it has several new … with the latest version of many popular open source software programs, including GNOME 2.26, KDE 4.2

I’m happy to announce the release of poster version 0.4 … that I love about working on poster, and about open source software in general, is hearing from users