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.
Some of Australia's top corporate and government organisations are poised to join a global technology forum aimed at pressing security vendors to adopt new standards.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confessed the software giant's .NET interoperability efforts with IBM and Sun have slowed, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google.
Microsoft chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, detailed his vision to Australia this week. However, he didn't have it all his own way.
Sydney will be mapped online as part of a new Web site, set up to provide Internet users with satellite imagery, road maps and even accident data to avoid that traffic jam on the way home from work.
The lax dress code of the open-source community is one of the reasons behind the software's slow uptake in commercial environments, says former Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn.
Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Additional reading: Why one Norwegian city switched to Linux
Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007.
The outsourcing specialist said it was "proactively engineering" Linux into its product portfolio, backtracking on previous statements that the open-source software was not suitable for large enterprises.
So you've done the math and decided there may be a good business case for Linux after all. Just make sure you don't dive into the world of open source without fastening the rope securely to the bridge.
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