Couldn’t resist picking on this one.  To say that we should all bow before the ideology layed down by the FSF and that “well, if the FSF doesn’t say it ain’t so, then it ain’t” is a bit far fetched.  Just because the FSF doesn’t say “gmail is a problem, you should all not use […]

A collegiate group doing an experiment with promoting FireFox (if I read that right) came up with two browsers. One sold on the idea that faith orientation (we’ll assume Christian.. there aren’t other faith’s, right? right?) while the other sold on the idea of sex.
Now, they don’t mean sex when they say that. […]

Some of use distribute GPL software.  I’ve actually distributed the odd change or patch myself (and sent up the RTL8150 patch to the kernel maintainers).  Most of this stuff is offered source-code available on the internet.  The license is very much intact.
Which is why it’s so appauling to see the BSA director making statments like […]

I know some other commentators, in their official capacities, have played up Suse’s 10.1 OpenLinux release as if it were the greatest thing since pre-sliced bread. I’ve been playing around on it a bit, either in preperation for a PCBurn article or just as a server replacemenent for the old Dell quad Xeon box.
So […]

Seems that Microsoft is having a tougher time buying off persuading officials in Europe of it’s rightousness than in the US.  The European Union slapped fines of 357m USD on the firm for not complying with it’s landmark ruling that should have forced MS to play fair in the server market.
What they ended up doing […]

In a feat almost unheard of Microsoft is listening to it’s customers and taking steps to support ODF.
They’re sponsoring a French partner company to create a connector software that will allow saving to and reading from ODF files in MS Office.  And offering it with a BSD license.
The only baffling part is why it took […]

It seems that Microsoft can’t violate the antitrust ruling against it from the EC.  They’re set to crack down with fines on MS for not following through on opening up their server protocols to competitors as part of an anti-trust ruling.
This one’s pretty pat really.  They were supposed to document their server protocols to allow […]

Check me if I’m wrong here.  When you release a game, and it gets rated by some standards body to suggest who should or shouldn’t play it, that effectively says who’s hands the game should go in, right?
It’s then the responsibility of parents, kids, game owners, etc. to make sure that it gets carried out.
Now, […]

And as the quote below shows, they’re all about open.  They love the word.  As long as open means “runs only on, for, and by Microsoft” they’re as open as they come.
Where as robotics applications usually use stable and home-built apps to make the buggers do their automated thing.
Somehow I don’t think it’ll fly.  But […]

I’ve written a review of Infinite Dungeons for Neverwinter Nights over at PCBurn.  If you’re into computer RPGs give the review a look and check if it’s a game to consider.
Neverwinter Nights Infinite Dungeons Review @ PCBurn