Microsoft’s ‘forced migrations’ benefit Mozilla, metrics firm claims
3/29/2007 4:50:00 PM
by Gregg Keizer
Firefox’s success in chipping away at Internet Explorer’s (IE) majority Web browser market share has slowed since Microsoft Corp. began pushing the new IE7 as an automatic update to Windows users last year, a management consulting firm said Wednesday.
But a [...]
The OpenOffice.org Community on March 29 announced the release of a major upgrade to OpenOffice: version 2.2. The group claims that with upgrades to its word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software, the free office suite provides a real alternative to Microsoft’s recently-released Office 2007 product.
Current users of older versions of Microsoft Office will find [...]
Comments about the third draft of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), which was released yesterday, are still coming in. So far, we’ve spoken with Free Software Foundation founder Richard M. Stallman, Linux creator Linus Torvalds, and Bruce Lowry, director of global public relations for Novell. Their reactions offer some new perspectives and at least [...]
Would you like to get your hands on”Linux System Administration” and have Bill Lubanovic or me show up to your local LUG or UNIX User group meeting? Then you should contact Marsee Henon at O’Reilly - marsee@oreilly.com. Of course, if you would rather have another author and another book she can handle that too. Marsee [...]
After weeks of speculation in the Linux community, Dell made its open source plans official Wednesday, confirming rumors that it will begin selling select desktops and notebooks with Linux operating systems preinstalled. Dell said the decision was made as a result of feedback from customers on its IdeaStorm Web site. “Dell has heard you, [...]
In order to get you into Linux with the least amount of pain and suffering, I’m going to recommend you not install Linux. This sounds counterintuitive, I know, but it is possible to taste Linux without delving into Propeller Head drool-worthy subjects such as dual-booting, repartitioning and reformatting. The first option, and the one [...]
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released the third draft of the revised third version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3). Some of the changes in the new draft, such as the increased clarification and legal language, or the housekeeping changes that reflect new aspects of the license are likely to be accepted. However, [...]
You may have heard about the Kathy Sierra case, which has been spreading in the blogosphere like wildfire for the past couple of days. In case you haven’t heard about the news, here’s a quick synopsis. Sierra, a prominent female blogger, decided to withdraw from participating in a workshop at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference and [...]
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