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Facebook shuts down EventPress development.
When you’re a big company, especially one that makes its money on free web services and advertising, it’s very easy to say you love open source. Open Source will get you nice PR, and you may even release parts of your code to …
Google Plus keeps your data as much as Facebook does
When you delete an account from Google+, Google promises you to delete all the data associated with your G+ profile. Well, I deleted mine some time ago, but while trying out the new Youtube homepage the first thing I saw was this:
Ubuntu Wiki lock-in
This comes from the Fedora planet, more specifically AdamW: I may be missing something here (be great if I am), but it seems to me that the content of the Ubuntu Wiki – which contains some great stuff – is not …
Canonical shuts down Ubuntu Satanic store
Update: The issue has been cleared up already. Thanks Satan Jono ! Bad news today. Out of the jealousy of not being able to create one decent …
Mono, here we go again
Ok, Jo Shield decided to reply to the Linux Today invite. Other than some plausible technical points, some unuseful considerations on LinuxToday ad revenue (?!) and some even lower level whining, he brought up some interesting points about the licensing issues. I’m commenting only those, because I don’t really think any technical point is that [...]
The Mono Crusade
World is beautiful, and everything is so peaceful right now. Still I have a weird sensation. May this be just the peace before the storm ? Is something starting ? What ?! A war ?… The Mono Crusade What’s wrong with the Mono fans ? As summer gets near …
Top 3 worthless things in technology
Here’s my top three: ISO As shown by the multiple irregularity claims, ISO is to be considered largely irrilevant. Whereas in the past it has been assumed that an ISO/IEC standard should automatically be considered for use within government, clearly this position no longer stands. — CONSEGI 2008 DECLARATION (Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba [...]
Microsoft to spread WISPS through a web AppStore
New and well-made move from Microsoft. A new website from microsoft promises to make web applications install under windows as simple as a single click. The format is a web-transposition of the succesfull iPhone appstore. The website offers, through a downloadable …
How will splashtop change the rules of the game ?
If you’re into netbooks and latest technology you surely already have heard of Splashtop. Splashtop is an instant on embedded Linux which boots in seconds (I mean, 3-4 seconds) and give the user fast access to web-based features as Web Browser, Skype, online gaming …
Microsoft tax on Linux’s horizon ?
How can you compete with free ? That’s the question every business publication has been asking to Microsoft lately. Of course priceless software is actractive per-se, so many online journalist and bloggers already foresaw Microsoft’s decline in the OS war. Well, seems like Microsoft had an answer lately, and a good one. In the last [...]
