Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson is out of the handset business, but it still wants royalties from those using its mobile patents. …read more Source:: Legal
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Open source is better off without FoundationDB
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•By Simon Phipps Database startup FoundationDB mysteriously vanished at the end of last month, along with both the downloads of its proprietary database and its open source projects. As it turned out, Apple …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google joins Microsoft, Apple, others in surveillance reform plea
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•Is the Linux Foundation trying to gag Linus Torvalds?
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•In today’s open source roundup: A new code of conflict might put a gag on Linus Torvalds. Plus: DistroWatch reviews Korora 21, and is Apple getting too much credit for the Apple Watch? Linus Torvalds has taken a lot of criticism for his…er…blunt responses to Linux developers over the years. Source: Tech
Is Eclipse Faster than NetBeans? By @OmniProf | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
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•While putting my test code up on GitHub and writing the readme.md, I ran my NetBeans test code on my 2011 early MacBook Pro. To my surprise the times for both embedded and remote testing were between 25 and 35 seconds. My original blog was based on working on a much much faster Windows 8.1…
Against the odds, Canonical and Jolla trot out iOS, Android alternatives
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•Four smartphone OSes that hope to find room next to Android and iOS were on display at Mobile World Congress, but the most exciting were Ubuntu Phone and Sailfish OS. Apple and Google have further tightened their grip on the smartphone OS market; they had a market share of 96.1 percent last year, up from…
Linus Torvalds: Apple's HFS+ is probably the worst file system ever
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•It’s been a long time since we heard a good rant from Linus Torvalds. He doesn’t rant much, but when he does he hits the nail on the head and he doesn’t mince words. Source: Tech
Mobile And Cloud Are Going To Be Microsoft's Pillars For Success
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•The reason why the likes of Google and Apple lead the way in mobile applications is because they have a slew of talented mobile developers plus a robust development infrastructure. Perhaps, Microsoft has realized this fact and more than just realizing, the company is now attempting hard to improve on its developer base. Source: Tech
Enterprise Advances Brought Linux Success in 2014
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•For Linux, 2014 could easily be labeled the year enterprise really and truly embraced Linux. It could just as easily be labeled the year that nearly forgot Linux on the desktop. If you weren’t Docker, containers, OpenStack, or big data ─ chances are the spotlight didn’t brighten your day much. If, however, you (or your…
Free Software Foundation statement on the GNU Bash "shellshock" vulnerability
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•Bash is the GNU Project’s shell; it is part of the suite of software that makes up the GNU operating system. The GNU programs plus the kernel Linux form a commonly used complete free software operating system, called GNU/Linux. The bug, which is being referred to as “shellshock,” can allow, in some circumstances, attackers to…