One small step…

Yesterday I wrote a post on the Ministry of Education in Israel and their lack of support for Open Source.
Today we are updated that several members of the Open Source community in Israel contacted the person in charge of the tender requiring MS Internet Explorer support (in Hebrew), and the Ministry of Education has expressed […]

Open Source in Israeli Schools

The very popular news site ynet.co.il ran an article about Open Source penetration in Israeli schools (in Hebrew).
Since most of you do not read Hebrew I will try to summarize the main points of the article:
Even though the Israeli Ministry of Education puts much emphasis on Microsoft products (i.e. Teaching Excel as part of the […]

Microsoft vs. Google

Ashlee Vance over at The Register wrote an article “Microsoft vs. Google – the open source shame” with a detailed description of the forum wars between Chris DiBona, Google’s Open Source manager, and Bill Hilf, Microsoft’s Open Source chief.
The topic of the debate, of course, is Microsoft’s latest move of submitting two licenses for approval […]

Open Source Links for 20-Aug-2007

Lowering the bar to open-source sales - Matt Asay, CNET
Q&A with Linus Torvalds - Swapnil Bhartiya, EFY News Network
A discussion regarding Microsoft submiting the MSPL to the OSI
Tighter budgets mean more Open Source - OpenSoureCommunity.org
ClamAV deal is new marker for open source merger market - Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet

Open Source Links for 30-Jul-2007

SugarCRM Goes GPLv3! - From Groklaw (You can find the PR here).
Open Source Ecosystems - Commentary by Roberto Galoppini.
Why Microsoft Should buy Red Hat - by Savio Rodrigues.
HP to buy Linux thin client desktop company (Neoware).
A Linux flavored OpenSolaris and Project Indiana - Alex Fletcher on Sun Microsystems’ Project Indiana.
Skype violates open source license - […]

Open Source Links for 09-Jul-2007

I decided, like many other bloggers, to consolidate my link posting into a weekly post (thank you Roberto Galoppini for inspiring the title…).

Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released - Post from Slashdot .
The legal ramifications of Microsoft’s GPLv3 position - CBR on this hot topic.
Is open source running out of ideas? - An interesting analysis of Open […]

Comparison of European Schools Preference (MS vs. OSS)

And Microsoft discovers…. (Drum roll please) Microsoft preferred by European Schools!
I love these unbiased surveys (this one was commissioned by Microsoft). I especially enjoyed their finding that “PC failures are 50 percent more common in the schools using OSS than in schools using Microsoft…”
Lucky for us, David Wheeler has a very comprehensive and truly objective […]

Microsoft Strikes Again (this time with Xandros)

Microsoft has announced a Broad Collaboration Agreement with Xandros.
NDTV Profit states that this agreement is similar to the one Microsoft signed with Novell last year. I expect a similar community reaction to come…