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Did Microsoft make Firefox?
This post by Matt Assay discussing how we got to a competitive browser market got me thinking. (Dangerous I know, but bear with me.) … I suppose the truly intriguing thing is not that we have a...
View ArticleDoes the Sun Shine at Oracle?
There’s been much coverage and speculation of what might or might not happen following the announcement that Oracle would like to buy Sun Microsystems and Sun are apparently happy to be bought by...
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OOXML: Nobody knows (or cares) what it is for or why.
I’ve not penned much on OOXML for quite a while mainly because there really doesn’t seem to be much interest in it outside of a small circle of Microsoft lackeys and puppy dogs. Even MS themselves are...
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New Thoughts on the UK Government Open Source Action Plan
Remember when, back in late February, the Cabinet Office released their “Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan”? Myself and many other FOSS commentators were obviously...
View ArticleIs Microsoft ‘Buying-Off’ Linux Netbook Vendors? [Updated]
There seems to be something of a military campaign afoot. One that surely shows signs of desperation and anxiety on behalf of the instigator. First we had Asus telling it’s potential customers that...
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Our Windows 7 Special Offer
This post is a “reprint” of an email we have just sent to the subscriber list for our Liberation newsletter. The audience is largely UK based businesses and public sector organisations. Should you wish...
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It’s definitely working…
My eldest son James, who’s 9, suggested something to me on Saturday morning over breakfast that made me quite proud and very chuffed. The conversation went something like this: “Dad, I think you should...
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BETT 2010 Review
It’s that time of year when around 30,000 educationalists from all over the world descend on Olympia in London for the annual edu-geek-out that is BETT. I’ve been going to BETT now for 3 or 4 years as...
View ArticleIs Canonical Becoming The New Microsoft? [Updated]
[Update: It seems I made my point very badly. Please read this follow-up post where I try to explain what I was asking]. Whoah! Hold on everyone. Let me don my asbestos suit first will you. Thanks....
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Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?
On the 10th of February I updated my original “Is Canonical becoming the new Microsoft?” post to make it clearer that what I was actually asking was about whether the company is becoming the next...
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