Is Java's move to GPL too late?, Nov 14, 2006

Well, at long, long -- repeat after me -- long last, Sun has open-sourced Java. At first, Sun rejected the idea, but the company finally has come around to it. And, not only that, Sun's doing under the GPL.

Today I am running a year-old version of Ubuntu Linux. In the world of Ubuntu Linux, where new releases are issued every six months, year-old Breezy is distinctly old.

Linus Torvalds was just 21 when he changed the world. Working out of his family's apartment in Helsinki in 1991, he wrote the kernel of a new computer operating system called Linux that he posted for free on the Internet — and invited anyone interested to help improve it.

A publicly funded Linux project which cost UK taxpayers half-a-million pounds has flopped.

Australians should get over their cultural stereotype of women in IT and schools play a big part in this, claims Pia Waugh

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