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The ‘ dd ‘ command is one of the original Unix utilities and should be in everyone’s tool box. It can strip headers, extract parts of binary files and write into the middle of floppy disks; it is used by the Linux kernel Makefiles to make boot images. It can be used to [...]
Now and then, the giant software wholesaler do something that their customers are locked into the proprietary products they put on the market. Some may think that because of the enormous amount of licenses and certifications, that’s why others are completely switching to Linux. One should not shift it’s gear yet merely because of the [...]
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is famously against open source software. While speaking about his upcoming plans to work on the Gates Foundation full-time, he was asked if he would consider open sources uses in health research, and he replied…
“There’s free software and then there’s open source,” he suggested, noting that Microsoft gives away its software [...]
This great website can help you find open source alternatives to your favorite commercial products.
It also helps you decide whether to use open source or commercial software by offering these advantages: By choosing an open source product, the user obtains a number of advantages compared to commercial products. Besides the fact that open [...]
The prestigious Harvard Business Review recently published a case study called “Open Source: Salvation or Suicide” by Scott Wilson and Ajit Kambil of Deloitte Research. It features a fictional company whose CEO has never heard of open source and is a little frightened by the idea when it is presented to her. However their open [...]
Google recently closed the registration for its 3-month Summer of Code and announced that this year’s program brings together the talents of 1125 students who will be given stipends worth $5000 each to contribute to 175 Free and Open Source projects: Mozilla, GNOME, and MySQL, among others. The lucky students will even be allowed to [...]
The huge global team behind the Open Office suite of products will be holding their annual conference in Beijing, China this year. The conference proper will be on October 15-17 with tours and activities on other dates. For the schedule of activities, location and other details, see this page.
According to their site:
This annual gathering is [...]
In an interview with Open Enterprises, Director of Engineering at Hewlett Packard’s Open Source and Linux Organization, says that the company will invest in new Open Source services to support lifecycle and governance. This is a good example of Enterprise support for open source platforms.
Over the past 6 years, HP has developed internal processes [...]
Traditional business owners may still prefer to purchase expensive software rather than use free open source software because there is nobody to go to for training and support in case things go wrong, thus they are afraid to adopt the use of open source software in their companies. Is this a valid concern?
In actuality, serious [...]
There are two versions of this, both referring to Linus Torvalds:The first was written by hacker and open source leader Eric S. Raymond in his essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”. It states that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”. More formally: “Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will [...]
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