Date: 02/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

It seems that everybody is talking about Carly Fiorina's rapid departure from HP. We should all be so lucky as to get the velvet boot from a company with a final paycheck of $21.1 million. My main interest in the end to Fiorina's tenure ...

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Date: 02/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

It seems that everybody is talking about Carly Fiorina's rapid departure from HP. We should all be so lucky as to get the velvet boot from a company with a final paycheck of $21.1 million. My main interest in the end to Fiorina's tenure ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=143

Date: 02/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

I have written a lot over the last few days about open source Windows applications.But there is a more general open source threat to Windows.Here's one example. Trolltech is about to release QT, its toolkit for developing cross-platform graphical applications, under the General Public License, as well as under a ...

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Date: 02/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

I have written a lot over the last few days about open source Windows applications.But there is a more general open source threat to Windows.Here's one example. Trolltech is about to release QT, its toolkit for developing cross-platform graphical applications, under the General Public License, as well as under a ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=142

Date: 02/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

How good are common open source Windows applications, like Firefox, Thunderbird, and the newest, Sunbird (calendaring)?Based on the feedback at Mozilla itself Firefox is OK (I use it for most applications), but Thunderbird still has some migration problems and according to a story in ZDNet UK yesterday Sunbird isn't ready ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=141&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

How good are common open source Windows applications, like Firefox, Thunderbird, and the newest, Sunbird (calendaring)?Based on the feedback at Mozilla itself Firefox is OK (I use it for most applications), but Thunderbird still has some migration problems and according to a story in ZDNet UK yesterday Sunbird isn't ready ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=141

Date: 02/07/05     Keywords: linux

Andrew Tridgell clears up a few misconceptions about Samba over on Groklaw. Samba, in case you aren't familiar with the project, provides print and file services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is probably used most often to allow Linux servers to offer print and file sharing services to Windows clients, but ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=140&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/07/05     Keywords: linux

Andrew Tridgell clears up a few misconceptions about Samba over on Groklaw. Samba, in case you aren't familiar with the project, provides print and file services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is probably used most often to allow Linux servers to offer print and file sharing services to Windows clients, but ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=140

Date: 02/05/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Today Matt Broersma at ZDNet UK offers some real wisdom on how the Free Standards Group (FSG) is fighting Microsoft's latest charge against Linux, the possibility of forking. The Microsoft charge that Linux "has the potential to fragment like Unix did" resonates with many enterprise customers. The response is the ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=139&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/05/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Today Matt Broersma at ZDNet UK offers some real wisdom on how the Free Standards Group (FSG) is fighting Microsoft's latest charge against Linux, the possibility of forking. The Microsoft charge that Linux "has the potential to fragment like Unix did" resonates with many enterprise customers. The response is the ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=139

Date: 02/05/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

What if Microsoft's David Weise had not created the "protected mode" that let Windows programs blow past the 640K memory barrier back in the late 1980s?Larry Osterman suggests that OS/2 would have dominated Windows, that IBM would have dominated that ecosystem, and thus the Linux boom might never have happened. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=138&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/04/05     Keywords: software, security, microsoft

Microsoft is getting ready to crack down on illicit copies of Windows by denying users the ability to download additional software, and eventually security updates. A lot of pundits are complaining about Microsoft's new policy. Not me. I'm thrilled that Microsoft is going to ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=137&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/04/05     Keywords: software

Europe has rejected a proposal on software patents, but that doesn't mean they won't happen. U.S. software companies wanted to make their faulty patent regime standard in the EC, but a committee of the parliament has now demanded a rewrite.The new rule was too broad and too American, the EC ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=136&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog