Keeping up with all the media coverage about the deal between Novell and Microsoft, I found an interview Ron Hovsepian did for ComputerWorld on November 28, 2006. The interview starts with this question:
ComputerWorld: How did the agreement with Microsoft come to pass? Who approached whom, and when?
Ron: “This [...]
I found this Open Access Book: Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software. I believe that if you are reading this blog, that book will interest you. By the way, kudos to The MIT Press for providing a free version of the book.
Peace!
Lino
It looks like it is!
Ron Hovsepian, Novell’s Chief Executive Officer, wrote an open letter to the Free and Open Source Software Community in a desperate effort to minimize the damage caused by Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer’s comments last week indicating that Linux users owe something to Microsoft.
Microsoft responded Novell’s [...]
I do not think so but Steve Ballmer does!
From Computerworld, we have that:
In a question-and-answer session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference in Seattle, Ballmer said Microsoft was motivated to sign a deal with SUSE Linux distributor Novell Inc. earlier this month [...]
Maybe in the heaven of search engines
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have agreed to use the Sitemaps 0.90 standard, developed by Google, to let webmasters guide the search engines’ automated Web crawlers in properly indexing their Web pages.
For details, see today’s press release.
Cheers!
Lino
I don’t think so.
A couple of days ago, I was reading a post titled Thoughts on the State of Search at the O’Reilly Radar. I completely agree with most of the points expressed in the article, in particular with the facts that:
The number of irrelevant search results will [...]
In what has been catalogued as a bold movement, Sun Microsystems released Java (one of the most popular programing languages) under a GPL v.2 license.
The press release from Sun is available here
Lino
With this words the Venezuelan President stressed the importance of the new National Centre for Research and Development on Free (as in Freedom) Technologies (CENDITEL). As the President puts it: “The centre will be key in achieving our scientific/technological independence”. Moreover, the centre is part of a National Initiative [...]
I have been programming in Perl for three months and I love the language. It does not look as hard as some people told me. The only thing (and it is a very good thing) is that there are many libraries to get acquainted with. Today, I found [...]
The day before yesterday, I posted, on the PerlMonks’ site, a script to do Fuzzy Clustering. You can find it here. So far, I have received very good feedback on how to improve the program. If you have any comment, please, drop me a line.
Peace!
Lino
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