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Comment Re:Get real (Score 1) 399

by boteeka on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @12:00PM (#25137335) Attached to: Is Open Source Different In Europe Than In the US?

That is, indeed, true. It is also true that corporatist software companies (like Microsoft) also originated in the US. Moreso, internet itself was conceived in the US. But in the end, it seems like it is also true that all of them are declining in the US.

Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet 644

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 02, 2007 @10:19AM from the no-net-for-you dept.

Lund, Sweden refuses to work around a Vista bug, so people who live there must choose between Vista and internet access. It's nice to see the right people being held accountable for a change.

New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu 505

Posted by kdawson on Saturday September 01, 2007 @07:51PM from the just-light-the-pixels-please dept.

ianare sends us to Ars Technica for news of the Ubuntu Xorg BulletProof-X feature, coming soon to a 7.10 (Gutsy) build near you. "It provides a failsafe mode that will ensure that users never have to manually configure their graphics hardware settings from the command line. If Xorg fails to start,the failsafe mode will initiate with minimalistic settings, low resolution, and a limited number of colors. The failsafe mode also automatically runs Ubuntu's new GTK-based display configuration utility so that users can easily test various display settings and choose a configuration that will work properly with their hardware."

Submission + - Open sourcing a corporate application.

Submitted by

jdmumper

on Monday August 27, 2007 @01:33PM

jdmumper writes: "My company has an application that allows users to securely transfer files to specific individuals. This utility has been around for many years and leverages some of the existing best practices for this kind of tool — SSL, encrypted file store, hashed password keys, etc. We have had several requests from customers and other businesses to release the application for their use. Since it is not a "core" piece of IP, it makes sense to do this. And I was recently asked by my boss to provide a proposal outlining how we should go about it, what the risks are, how much work is involved, etc. But since we've never done this before, I would like some advice from others out there who have gone through the process of taking a "corporate asset" and releasing it as open source. I realize that there are various license zealots who will say use GPL or LGPL or GPL3 or BSD or (insert your favorite OSI-approved license here). But that is not what is important to me. It's more important to know how to go about the entire process."

Submission + - Ten things the world can learn from open source (cnet.com)

Submitted by mjasay on Monday August 27, 2007 @12:43PM

mjasay writes: Open source is a software-development methodology, but it's also a way of doing business that applies to more than software. In this CNET article Matt Asay describes ten principles gleaned from open source software that can apply to any business. It turns out that transparency, enforced sharing, and other such open-source principles can help a range of businesses to grow. What other principles does the author miss?

Submission + - Why Do Linux Users Often Ignore FAQ Documentation? (madpenguin.org)

Submitted by techie on Monday August 27, 2007 @04:59AM

techie writes: MadPenguin.org has a new story up asking why Linux beginners often ignore FAQ documentation to solve their problems instead of relying on forums and community feedback? The story says, "One distribution that comes to mind when thinking about great documentation is Ubuntu. Anything you need to know, from NDISWrapper to utilizing restricted codecs, is listed in their documentation project. Unfortunately, it remains intimidating to many new users. Not the information so much, rather the reminder that they are essentially starting over. On the flip side, documentation is documentation, period. As long as it is there, accurate and readable, we are satisfied. And sadly, this is what has led to so many unneeded forums postings for new Linux users. Since they feel overwhelmed, they end up on various forums, asking the wrong questions and often times, getting the wrong answers.

Submission + - Photon-transistors exchange data between photons (eurekalert.org)

Submitted by gregor-e on Sunday August 26, 2007 @02:56PM

gregor-e writes: Scientist from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen and from Harvard University have come up with a way for photons to exchange data. Normally, photons pass right by each other without interacting. What these guys have done is establish a means of transferring information from one photon to another by using a single atom intermediary. This provides a step toward practical quantum computation, by allowing the signals to be purely optical in nature.

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