LinuxWorld today notes that one of its editors, Brian E. Ferguson, features prominently in the Forbes story. Ferguson authored the savvy analytical article SCO's IP Gamble in the current issue, which, as Forbes notes, concludes that "SCO's case a long shot."
Hmm LinuxWorld doesn't seem quite as convinced, carrying the MSFT spokesperson's words but questioning their creative use of English by titling the item: Microsoft "Clarifies" Virtual PC & Linux "Misunderstanding"
very cool, a new magazine JUST for Symbian OS...since there are significantly more Symbian licencees than PocketPC Smartphone Edition licencees (according Canalys, the majority of mobile devices in the EMEA market now use the Symbian OS and there'll be plenty of content because the OS is unusual and interesting. It will be interesting too to see how the magazine shapes up and tackles the challenge to Symbian OS from Windows CE.NET which seems to be gaining ground.
Hmm, the Desktop Linux Consortium looks interesting, with members like ArkLinux, CodeWeavers, Debian, DesktopLinux.com, KDE, Linux Professional Institute (LPI), Lycoris, The Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), MandrakeSoft, NeTraverse, OpenOffice.org, Questnet (Support4Linux.com), Samba.org, theKompany, SuSE, TransGaming Technologies, TrustCommerce, Xandros, and Ximian.
Their site quotes Linus: "We already have all of the tools, in Open Source software, necessary for 80% of office workers in the world: an office suite including spreadsheet, word processor, and presentation program; a web browser, graphical desktop with file manager, and tools for communications, scheduling, and personal information management. The Linux desktop is inevitable!"
This thread that's been simmering over at LinuxWorld for a couple of days now. One poster says: Jeez... this is a hard "discussion"... everybody has varied, valid points, thoroughly thought out and well articulated, I'm impressed with this crowd... Why is everybody so worried? Linux is out here, it's up to us to carry it on, not up to them. They won't (and can't) stop it even if they won and tried it. Why won't (or can't) they? simply because of its nature, the community would just find a way around the restrictions and code them in. Anyway, I'd like to thank everybody for some interesting reading (really)."
the oddest part of the BBC story is this bit:
And in October, Russian businessman Sergey Lebedev was fined £2,500 after forcing a British Airways jet to abort a landing at Manchester Airport.
Cabin crew spent so long arguing with him about whether he would turn off his mobile they were unable to prepare the plane
So what was his actual, offence: surliness? this is a very bad report....i prefere the kind of reporting you get in Wireless Business & Technology magazine.
Blue is definitely getting smarter and smarter in terms of both tactics and strategy, according to this article which more or less lays bare the entire marketing philosophy behind WebSphere for 2003.
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LinuxWorld today notes that one of its editors, Brian E. Ferguson, features prominently in the Forbes story. Ferguson authored the savvy analytical article SCO's IP Gamble in the current issue, which, as Forbes notes, concludes that "SCO's case a long shot."
sorry, forgot the story link
Hmm LinuxWorld doesn't seem quite as convinced, carrying the MSFT spokesperson's words but questioning their creative use of English by titling the item: Microsoft "Clarifies" Virtual PC & Linux "Misunderstanding"
very cool, a new magazine JUST for Symbian OS...since there are significantly more Symbian licencees than PocketPC Smartphone Edition licencees (according Canalys, the majority of mobile devices in the EMEA market now use the Symbian OS and there'll be plenty of content because the OS is unusual and interesting. It will be interesting too to see how the magazine shapes up and tackles the challenge to Symbian OS from Windows CE .NET which seems to be gaining ground.
LinuxWorld is now carrying the letter too
Their site quotes Linus: "We already have all of the tools, in Open Source software, necessary for 80% of office workers in the world: an office suite including spreadsheet, word processor, and presentation program; a web browser, graphical desktop with file manager, and tools for communications, scheduling, and personal information management. The Linux desktop is inevitable!"
This thread that's been simmering over at LinuxWorld for a couple of days now. One poster says: Jeez... this is a hard "discussion"... everybody has varied, valid points, thoroughly thought out and well articulated, I'm impressed with this crowd... Why is everybody so worried? Linux is out here, it's up to us to carry it on, not up to them. They won't (and can't) stop it even if they won and tried it. Why won't (or can't) they? simply because of its nature, the community would just find a way around the restrictions and code them in. Anyway, I'd like to thank everybody for some interesting reading (really)."
or even "surly" Sergey...sorry about the typo!!
the oddest part of the BBC story is this bit: And in October, Russian businessman Sergey Lebedev was fined £2,500 after forcing a British Airways jet to abort a landing at Manchester Airport. Cabin crew spent so long arguing with him about whether he would turn off his mobile they were unable to prepare the plane So what was his actual, offence: surliness? this is a very bad report....i prefere the kind of reporting you get in Wireless Business & Technology magazine.
Blue is definitely getting smarter and smarter in terms of both tactics and strategy, according to this article which more or less lays bare the entire marketing philosophy behind WebSphere for 2003.