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Microsoft engineers have done what would have been unthinkable a few years ago - made a code contribution to Samba under the terms of the GPL.
Secure boot: Linux Foundation, vendors offer solutions
Microsoft's proposal for a secure boot process in Windows 8 has alarmed GNU/Linux vendors and the body that caters to kernel development to the extent that they have drafted documents to specify how such a process can be used without hindering the use of other operating systems.
Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment
Repeated online harassment, all of it based on her sex, has forced a prominent female open source developer and community organiser to quit the tech industry and also rethink her participation in LCA 2012.
Why Stallman is right about Steve Jobs
An indication of the extent to which people in today's world are prone to hypocrisy is evidenced by the way they react after someone dies.
GNU/Linux users given false hope over Windows 8 issue
Over the past few days, GNU/Linux users have been complaining about the Windows 8 secure boot specification, an issue that was raised in these columns a few days.
Will Windows 8 succeed in locking out GNU/Linux?
Is Microsoft finally resigned to the fact that Windows can never again be the dominant operating system on our planet? Or is the behemoth planning to make one final attempt to control what you use?
Taking LCA to places never explored
After years of being held in capital cities, Australia's national Linux conference, the LCA, is set to be held in a regional town for the first time in 2012.
Windows 8 will be wonderful - even if it's pretty late
A developers' conference is something similar to a meeting of evangelistic Christians or Islamic fundamentalists - no non-believers or sceptics are around, the cheers are raucous and come without prompting, and all the focus is on the man on the stage.
Kernel.org breach does not reflect well on admins
Seventeen days. That how long it took for the elite administrators at the Linux kernel project to find out that servers at the project had been breached.
Steve Jobs: a reality check
If one were to go by the reaction to the news that Steve Jobs would no longer be the chief executive of Apple Computer, the man is Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama and Henry Ford all rolled into one.
FOSS misfits: Rusty Russell's take
It is not often that people from within the free and open source software community speak frankly about the problems within.
GNOME 3: what's all the fuss about?
The latest incarnation of the GNOME desktop, version 3. has been out for a while. I'm one of those who is late to the party, one at which there have been very few compliments and loads and loads of complaints. At times, when you get something free, you tend not to value it.
LibreOffice shows the strengths of FOSS
LibreOffice is up to version 3.3.2 and is much faster, slicker and feels less heavy - to use words that a layman would - when compared to OpenOffice.org.
Bradley Kuhn: a life devoted to Free Software
Bradley Kuhn is well-known in the world of Free Software. That he works for the Software Freedom Conservancy - and what that august organisation does - is less well publicised.
Groklaw: the good, the bad, the ugly
The website Groklaw, which waged a tireless campaign against the SCO Group after it filed a case against IBM in 2003, for "misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition and breach of contract, has decided it is time to put up the shutters.
RMS weighs into Google GPL debate
Free Software Foundation chairman Richard Stallman has weighed into the debate over whether Google may be guilty of a GPL violation or not by saying that what the search giant has done is not limited by copyright.