Happy Birthday to the GnuPG team and community. GnuPG turns 10 today! For those caught unaware, GnuPG was designed to be a Free Software implementation of PGP, removing the patented algorithms, such as RSA and IDEA, and replacing them with Free Software algorithms, such as Blowfish and ElGamal. Being a strong advocate [...]
Lately, I’ve had on my mind the desire to run different operating systems, other than Debian and Ubuntu. I’ve always had this weird interest in operating systems, so when I discovered Unix and Linux, it intrigued me to run them on my own system. Unix never went far, as the only “distro” I [...]
It’s always bothered me, how confusing the many Free and Open Source Licenses are. There are many to choose from. As a developer, which one do you pick? How do you choose what software to run? What applications or services will you deploy pending licensing? These are big questions, and [...]
I’m 3 days behind in pushing out this news, however, after getting my daily dose of Technorati, and seeing all the posts about Movable Type going GPL with version 4, I had to comment.
First off, I am excited to see Movable Type get back on its feet with respect to the community. It’s history [...]
After last night’s post, I began tinkering with the colorscheme for my centericq installation. Really, the layout of the application is self explanatory as to where the colors go. So, because I use the madcow theme for my irssi install, I thought that I would try to get it to match as closely [...]
There are only 9 days left, until Open Discussion Day, and I am posting this to remind you of the event and the purpose. Open Discussion Day is May 19th, every year, and it’s a day where you drop your legacy IM protocols in favor of open protocols, such as Jabber/XMMP.
I blogged about this [...]
UPDATE 2: Groklaw covered this post and Justin’s. Comments following are insightful, and far outstretching the content here. Read more here.
UPDATE: Justin wrote up a good review of the conference on his blog. You can find his post here.
I had the opportunity today, along with John, Kyle, Justin and Mike (some local [...]
So I’m about a day behind delivering this story. Sorry about that.
Texas and Minnesota are debating making the move to ODF following the example of Massachusetts, for all of the official government documents. This is good news for ODF supporters and fans. Not so good news for Microsoft and Office [...]
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/01/ODF-Notes
Because you have to register on that site to comment on that article (registering on sites, just to comment is ridiculous), I am opening up comments here. I am curious what the community thinks about IBM using ODF to secure Lotus Notes in the market. Frankly, I find it mere speculation without proof.
Discuss.
I’ve blogged about this many a time, and yet, the same chime rings. How many of you are Open Source advocates, yet use proprietary protocols, formats, files, and software? It’s one thing to be anal about Free Software, it’s another to preach the Good Word, and not follow it yourself.
Anyway, I’m not putting [...]
One of the biggest tools that I use is screen. Not only for irssi, my preferred IRC client, but for other things as well. When I show people screen, it’s funny to see the look on their face. They take a step back, and say “Wow. That’s really cool”. I [...]
First off, PortableApps Suite.
When I stumbled upon this, I was ecstatic! A complete suite of Open Source Software tools for Windows users. Even better- they run right off of your portable USB drive!
While the list of tools in the suite is young, and not extensive, it’s enough to get a serious Windows user [...]
There’s a new planet on the block: Planet OpenSolaris. Being first exposed to Unix on a Sun Solaris, and owning a Sun Microsystems Enterprise Server a little bit ago, I am a softy for the Solaris operating system. I think it is a rock solid Unix, and their hardware even more rock [...]
Last night, the Ubuntu-Utah team met, and we had a good meeting. Tristan gave a presentation on how to utilize Ubuntu resources, and Christer talked about what it takes to be an Ubuntu member. Both presentations were exceptionally good. I want to cover what Tristan went over, namely the resources that are [...]
This is good news.
As you are fully aware, most likely anyway, I don’t use WordPerfect as: 1) it’s not Free Software, and 2) it doesn’t support ODF natively. However, with that said, this is great news, for a couple reasons. First, it tightens the competition with Internet Explorer as now, a major corporation [...]
