For the first time, court lays down a legal foundation for the protection of open source developers. This means now all open source licenses are enforceable. An extremely favorable decision toward projects like GNU, Creative Commons, Wikipedia, and Linux.
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Mr. Stephen Fry introduces you to free software, and reminds you of a very special birthday. Happy birthday GNU!
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Sun is planning to release OpenSolaris soon with better package management, GNU userland tools and fast release cycle just like Fedora or Ubuntu Linux. Sun’s Ian Murdock gave a presentation about OpenSolaris at LugRadio Live this past weekend. He explained how OpenSolaris reflects Sun’s changing platform strategy and also discussed some of the technical attributes [...]
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Cygwin software offers Linux-like environment for Windows making it possible to port software running on POSIX systems (such as Linux, BSD, and Unix systems) to Windows. However, sometime you just wanna run bc or wget under Windows without going through Cygwin. Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, [...]
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Qt is the standard framework for high performance, cross-platform application development. Trolltech ASA is licensing its Qt cross-platform development framework under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL v3), with immediate effect. GNU founder Richard Stallman said: I am very pleased that Trolltech has decided to make Qt avaliable under GPL v3. This will [...]
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Explains how to find the length of string under Linux / UNIX operating system using simple shell commands.
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This is sooo funny. Apple released its iPhone and GNU released its GPL v3… what about Microsoft geeks? (click to enlarge) Source / Image credit
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