There are a lot of myths out there about the hiring practices of proprietary software companies vs open source companies or communities. People are sharing anecdotal evidence claiming proprietary software developers are somehow better because they employed more women. While this is extremely far from the truth. I don’t hate women, in fact I love them . . . → Read More: Debunking Myths about Open Source neglect of Women
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The SD times has announced their ‘SD Times 100‘ for 2010. The SD Times recognizes top leaders and innovators of the software development industry. However upon looking at the list you’ll see two names that stick out like sore thumb: ‘Microsoft‘ and the ‘Mono Project‘. How is Microsoft considered an innovator? They buy out companies and developers . . . → Read More: If Mono innovates then I’m the King of Canada Pwnage.ca will be redesigned and its articles will be republished under the new design. We will also shift our news reporting focus on more positive news and advocacy. New features will include programming related posts as I teach myself C. People might note or ridicule me for past posts where I mentioned owning a book called . . . → Read More: New Focus I was going over an old Groklaw posting that got me thinking about Microsoft and it’s .NET Agenda. I decided to do more research and took a look at the Comes vs Microsoft documents again but from the perspective of the current Mono issues. After reading the information contained in the documents I am even . . . → Read More: Evangelism is War – The Mono/Moonlight Agenda  80 comments - (Comments are closed)  Anti Microsoft, GNU plus Linux, Programming, Technology, Your Rights First of all I don’t believe there is anything wrong with accepting corporate funding. The issue at hand is that corporate funding shouldn’t dictate or suggest the direction of an organization. The FSF has three tiers of funding each receiving the same benefits. The only difference is that each tier is represented on the Patron List in . . . → Read More: Corporate Funding FSF vs GNOME If anyone is interested in Chromium for Fedora, there are unofficial builds available for Fedora 10,11,12. These builds can be found @ http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/ I have tried the Fedora 12 build on my own machine. I think . . . → Read More: Chromium for Fedora ADMIN’S NOTE: This article is in response to comments which attacked my article: Gnome to Split Off from GNU Project? By Thomas King (Author of other articles posted on Linux.com such as this one) First off, if you haven’t already read the Four Freedoms (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) yet you feel like you need to attack the ideal, I don’t know . . . → Read More: Freedom or Sponsors, Not Both? by Thomas King According to a recent posting from Philip Van Hoof, he suggests that Gnome split off from the GNU Project and proposes a vote. He has been informed he will need 5% of members to agree for there to be a vote put forth (10% is the real number). At the same time NON-PERSON (on the . . . → Read More: Gnome to Split Off from GNU Project? Microsoft has open sourced[sic] the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT) by releasing it under the GPLv2 license. The code is now available on CodePlex, Microsoft’s Open Source software project hosting repository, over at wudt.codeplex.com. The actual installer for the tool is now again available for download at the Microsoft Store (2.59MB). Arstechnica – Microsoft finally open . . . → Read More: Microsoft finally releases tool as Free Software I thought Beranger gave up. However he is back with more complaints about GNU/Linux. The author begs the question “Should I go back to XP” as if he is a troll (Gotta love an OS from 2001).. I need to run a few Windows commercial applications (some I paid for!), and I hate the idea of dual-booting, . . . → Read More: You broke your promise Béranger! |
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