The Nosoftwarepatents.com website has posted a statement by European OSS superstars Linus Torvalds (Linux), Michael Widenius (MySQL) and Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) against software patents. The statement pleas to the European Council to consider the damage caused by software patents. They call the proposed directive “deceptive, dangerous, and democratically illegitimate”.
The latest FUD from Microsoft may just be mere rubbish. Steve Ballmer recently made it clear in a conference in Asia that Linux violates 283 software patents. The problem is that this is done by quoting a study that actually says that Linux has similar patent risk than proprietary software. Read more
For all of us old enough to remember the early days of the internet, Internet Explorer was not always the only browser around. Most people used Netscape (before it was seduced by the dark side and was bought by AOL). Netscape has the great honour of prompting the coining of Read more
The Register reports on a new study that attempts to settle once and for all the Linux v Windows security debate. Unsurprisingly, Linux comes out smelling of roses, while Windows is attacked for having a bad track record in fixing vulnerabilities. This would seem quite straightforward, telling us stuff that Read more