Why Windows Vista will suck, Mar 02, 2006

My point is, though, that while I write a lot about Linux, and I prefer it, my real specialty is that I know operating systems of all types and sorts, including Vista. So when I say Vista sucks, well, I know what I'm talking about.

IBM continues its court-scheduled defense discovery. It has subpoenaed documents from JP Morgan Securites, Inc. and McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Here's Defendant/Counterclaim Plaintiff IBM's Notice of Service of Subpoenas Duces Tecum. That is the kind that asks for documents only. There is no deposition scheduled.

Richard Stallman, author of the GNU General Public License -- the most widely used open source licence -- has said that the upcoming GPL version 3 would not be "huge."

The consumer electronics giant describes Linux as "rapidly gaining favor in the consumer-electronics market due to its modularity, scalability, open-source philosophy, and low-cost development tool support."

There’s an explosion coming to the portable media player and digital display spaces, and Vivace Semiconductor, a semiconductor startup focused on providing next-generation multi-function video processing chips, wants to be at the heart of it.

Christine Martino, vice president of Hewlett Packard's Open Source and Linux organization, talks about middleware, Linux on the desktop, and other open source trends.

Oracle has now made its low-end, free-of-charge Oracle Database 10g Express Edition generally available to the public.

Dave Dargo is chief technical officer at open-source database vendor, Ingres. Like many other Ingres executives, Dargo is a veteran of Oracle, having spent 15 years there, including a spell helping to manage Oracle's Linux and open-source strategy.

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