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Documents as miniature websites? - Plus: Legislation needed to protect and promote FOSS

By Rick Jelliffe
July 22, 2009

The most likely future for documents and their formats, is that each document will start to look/act/be implemented more and more like a tiny, self-contained website. There is a flip-side: as documents become more like tiny websites, the desktop application will become more become more like a browser with an internal web-server.

Announcing the date of the FOSS revolution: 2032!

By Rick Jelliffe
April 24, 2009

In the spirit of Bishop Ussher, I am prepared to announce the date the Free and Open Source Sofware revolution will be complete: it is the year 2032! Instead of SETI@home, we need a GERI@home project.

No Fooling Around, (ASP.NET_MVC = (OSS) => OSS.MS-PL) == true

By M. David Peterson
April 2, 2009

Furthering their effort to "Make Web Not War.", today Microsoft announced the release of the ASP.NET MVC Framework under the OSI approved MS-PL OSS license.

Dear Facebook: You Lost My What?

By M. David Peterson
November 25, 2008

Highlighting the importance of the phrase "data backup" with an "Are you kidding me?"-type moment, it seems Facebook has some serious "'splaining to do" as to how they /lost/ my (and I assume others) application notification settings.

Todd Ogasawara on Microsoft Competing with F/OSS

By chromatic
June 25, 2008

On Port 25, Todd Ogasawara asks Does Microsoft Really Need to "Compete" With Open Source? According to Ray Ozzie, the competition has led directly to interoperability concerns -- and interoperability means cooperation, at least once you reach the point of...

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 11: Testing What We Have

By Tony Hillerson
March 31, 2008

Last installment we looked at the interfaces for the service layer of our application. In Part 11 of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we'll look at using TestNG, a Java test framework, to test our application so far. This feature is packed with code samples! Every Monday we bring you another installment in the series.

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