source: InfoWorld This is because the technologically-challenged twits that make the business calls at large companies feel safe and snuggly in the arms of the Evil Empire. It’s like the old saying, “No one ever got fired for choosing IBM.” Why can’t Novell just deal with this? Because the CXX-level twits at Renault insist on [...]
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The First Android Apps: From a Linux Startup!
January 13th, 2008 
Tim Introducing the first Android prototype – USATODAY.com A post on Mashable brought this to my attention. It should be no surprise that a CA Linux startup, A La Mobile, is the first to offer a suite of apps based on Android, Google’s mobile platform. Let’s hope open source can play an increasingly important role in [...]
Is the World Catching on to Open Source?
January 2nd, 2008 Tim I followed a link on Twitter this afternoon from Dave Sifry, founder of Linuxcare and Technorati, to this post by Glyn Moody. Sifry has started a new service, hoosgot, that allows you to post a request to the web at large for anything: information, stuff, a job, whatever. You can also see the stream of [...]
Posted in Blogging, LAMP, Linux, Open-Source, Technology, Twitter 
Tags: 2008, hoosgot, Moody, Open-Source, Sifry, Twitter 
Comments OffA LAMP Unto My Feet!
November 26th, 2007 Tim The title of this post is a reference to the way Free and Open Source software in general, and Linux specifically, have shown the way to escape the prison of proprietary software and the concept, perhaps, of intellectual property.
