Archive for the 'opensource' Category

My Next Laptop Will NOT Be a Mac (But Dell’s)
March 6, 2008

Comparing to Microsoft aggressiveness,  I was wondering whether Apple is just passive aggressive?
Both  companies are making money selling proprietary, closed-source software (and hardware) . Perhaps Apple just dose it more gently with a wider smile on the face. That is all.
Even getting a legal copy of OS x runs on a virtual machine is almost [...]

The Winner Takes It All doesn’t work anymore, even for Microsoft
March 4, 2008

Microsoft interoperability announcement is a significant switch and a remarkable milestone onto the way to make the world of software an open, standardized  and perhaps free as well. Especially regarding the IE8 default behavior.
Read more at:

http://ejohn.org/blog/unbreaking-the-web/
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/interoperability/default.mspx

I have said in the past that IE would eventually become an open source browser and so it would. I [...]