Good news for anyone who comes within a mile of patent law! Okay, so it might not be such great news for anyone who, under legal advice, should avoid coming within a mile of patents in the first place…
… but this may just be the first step towards a more open process here […]
A few days ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode VM (the machine which hosts this blog). I had upgraded to 7.10 a while back, so it was unlikely to be much of a challenge… But it was great to see another very smooth upgrade, without any manual workarounds required at all.
While the […]
Apparently, the delightfully simple /etc/iftab is no longer used, replaced with the ugly and fiercely undelightful /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. See, you can even tell from the name of the file that you’re not going to like it.
Surely udev could read and do something useful with /etc/iftab, even if it only provides a fraction of the functionality? Ubuntu successfully […]
Australia’s first Open Source Census published
“Results of Australia’s first large-scale Open Source community census have been released to the public. [The report] gives voice to the business potentials, patterns and concerns of a previously mute sector of the IT industry.”
(tags: waughpartners opensource census report)
Australian senator demands open source against US “lock-in”
“Australian senator, Karen Lundy, believes […]
Okay, I’ll bite:
stanley: ~
$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
201 host
46 bzr
43 ls
40 cd
32 sudo
22 vi
19 scp
12 clear
11 ./push-live
9 wget
Amusing aberration at the top there.
Back off, China tells Rudd on eve of visit
“Mr Rudd’s hardline approach comes amid Opposition claims that he is too close to China.” — Our newly minted opposition just can’t catch a break, no matter what they try.
(tags: kevinrudd china brendannelson liberal labor australia politics)
‘Ms Fits’ named top blogger
“Marieke Hardy’s blog, Reasons You Will Hate Me, has […]
Time for a little perspective on the Open Source industry in Australia… Yesterday, the ABS shipped some findings about digital game development companies:
At end June 2007, there were 45 businesses in Australia involved in the provision of digital game development services. These businesses employed over 1,400 people and generated a total income of $136.9m which represented […]
US software lock-ins harm local bidders
“There should be an insistence now at the policy level on open standards, thereby limiting the capture proprietary software companies have had in the past,” [Senator Lundy] said.
(tags: katelundy waughpartners opensource openstandards australia government policy)
Aussie open source report now a free download
“Sydney-based open source research firm Waugh Partners has published […]
So when Tim O’Reilly pimped MarkMail a few weeks ago, with a post about their huge Perl mail archive import, I liked what I saw.
But it wasn’t just that. I also wondered how much we kicked Perl’s arse. Or, put more diplomatically… I wondered what the difference might be between two large, mature FLOSS projects.
Of course, GNOME […]
