Software engineer Don Soegaard writes that the GNU/Linux community can shelve its ambitions to challenge Windows if it keeps failing to develop easier-to-use productivity tools for desktop users.
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Software engineer Don Soegaard writes that the GNU/Linux community can shelve its ambitions to challenge Windows if it keeps failing to develop easier-to-use productivity tools for desktop users.
Red Hat has begun an effort to use its position as the dominant seller of the Linux operating system to try to smooth over a long-running divide about the look and feel of the OS.
The idea expressed in many articles--that GNU/Linux is good for servers but not for the desktop--is a joke. The fact is, Linux will prevail.
The recent legal battles in which Microsoft have been embroiled, have not sidetracked Chairman Bill Gates from forging ahead with a plan to dominate the market for Web services.
Richard Stallman, chair of the Free Software Foundation, said on Thursday that the Linux trademark fracas in Australia has distracted attention away from the real issue -- that of freedom to distribute and change software.
General Public License governing heart of popular open-source OS is being updated to deal with patents, other issues. But it'll be a struggle.
The idea expressed in many articles--that GNU/Linux is good for servers but not for the desktop--is a joke. The fact is, Linux will prevail.
Linux kernel developer Harald Welte talks about the challenges of single-handedly tackling companies that violate the GPL.
Bringing any new system into an established organisation, especially when it is a concept like open source, is a matter of selling the idea.
At a time when Sun must vie for the attention of IT buyers bombarded by Red Hat, SuSE, Microsoft, IBM and HP, the company knows that it must tap the galvanising force of GNU/Linux rather than offend those who subscribe to it.
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