Es ist wieder soweit: Morgen ist Document Freedom Day, ein Tag, an dem sich Menschen weltweit für freie Dokumentformate und offene Standards einsetzen. Die von der Free Software Foundation ins Leben gerufene Initiative richtet sich dabei keinesfalls nur an Kenner der Thematik, sondern hat ein...

Liebe Leserin, Lieber Leser, Entschuldigen Sie zunächst einmal den derben Titel, aber harte Worte erfordern manchmal deutliche Gegenworte. Serguei Beloussov, seines Zeichens CEO von Parallels, spricht im Interview mit den Kollegen von T3N über Open Source. Doch was muss ich da lesen? Laut...

Extreme Austin! - The Texas Linux Fest! Austin, Texas! Home to live music, great food, a world-class University (U of T), the longhorns and IBM's Linux Technology Center, it is a great place to have a Linux Fest, and that is what is happening on April 10th, 2010. For just one day the Linux...

Dear Ambassador Kirk, Recently it was reported in the Guardian, an on-line newspaper, that the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) is requesting that the United States Trade Representative put Indonesia, Brazil and India on the "Special 301 Watchlist" specifically because those...

Update: Mittlerweile gibt es eine Mailingliste auf der die Veranstaltungen geplant und die Rezepte veröffentlicht werden. Die Liste ist auch bei GMANE verfügbar. Seit Juli vergangenen Jahres gibt es in München die Open-Source-Treffen. Zwar hat sich die ursprüngliche Idee, eine deutschlandweite...

Several times I have written about "Software Piracy", and I think a lot of my readers get a little tired of hearing about it, but something happened this week that started me thinking about Software Piracy again. Microsoft made Software Piracy Prevention a voluntary thing. Of course Microsoft...

Recently there has been a discussion on the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) mailing list about why LPI does not publish its own training materials to help students prepare for their tests. I started to answer in the mailing list, but instead I decided to answer here. LPI, of course, is a...

No, even though today is the day that the wonder-child of Apple shows off his latest marketing blitz, this blog is not about Steve Jobs and his DRM-laden tablet.Instead we are going to travel thousands of miles to the south-east and visit a man in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Marcelo Balisteri, of...

There has been a lot of discussion about HTC's Nexus One, also known as "The Google Phone". The discussions back and forth about whether it is an "iPhone Killer" are often heated, with issues of whether or not this feature or that feature is better than the iPhone. One feature that has not...

Nach dem ganzen Vorgeplänkel soll es nun mit dem Beagleboard wirklich ernst werden. Das heißt ich will meine eigenen Programme compilen und vor allem testen, wie Multimedia-Software vom DSP des OMAP-Prozessors profitiert. Davor liegt allerdings noch eine kleine aber langwierige Hürde, nämlich...

Today Cesar Brod, a friend of mine from Brazil, sent me a picture of some fireworks he saw on New Year's Day that had a picture of our favorite penguin on them. It was timely, since it was a year ago today that I wrote another blog entry about Tux and "Penguin Awareness Day" (January 20th) and...

In 1999 I was working for Digital Equipment Corporation's Unix group as a technical marketing manager, making a "six-figure salary". I had met Linus Torvalds in May of 1994, and had recognized Linux and Free Software as something whose time had come. While most of the world in 1994 thought of...

Liebe Leserin, Lieber Leser, auch wenn die letzten Tage des Jahres vor allem hektisch und schnelllebig sind, so kehrt nach und nach doch vorweihnachtliche Ruhe und Stille ein. Vielerorts ist die Stadt in eine Schneedecke und in Kerzenschein gehüllt, Kinderaugen leuchten beim Blick in die...

The other day I read an article on the web that said that "Firefox, Adobe top buggiest-software list" and which stated that Firefox had reported the most "vulnerabilities" of all the "application programs". The article admitted that the #2 and #3 "application programs" ("Adobe" and...

I am at the 8th International Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium hosted by the Federal University of Santa Caterina (December 9th, 10th and 11th) and I have just finished listening to a very interesting talk by Professor Antonio Alfredo Ferreiro Loureiro (Federal...

Ich geb es zu, ich bin kein neutraler Tester mehr. Nokias N900 hat mich völlig verdorben. Zwei Wochen lang war ich der glückliche Besitzer, Kollegen und Freunde bettelten, um sich das Gerät mal für ein, zwei Stunden ausleihen zu dürfen. Nur neidvolle Blicke blieben ihnen, als Sie es mir...

Five years ago I started shifting my discussions regarding Free Software to try and address the question of "How do I make money with Free Software?" Four years ago issues around usability of closed-source software in today's modern world began to creep into my talks, leading to the question of...

Ja, es ist kaum zu glauben, aber wahr. Wohin man schaut: Weihnachtsmärkte allerorts, Glühwein, Lichterketten, von den Lebkuchen ganz zu schweigen - die Weihnachtszeit steht vor der Tür. Und jedes Jahr geht es schneller. Immer mehr passiert in den letzten Monaten vor Jahresende, und gerade im...

A short additional "Blog" entry depicting the conferences and events I will be in the next few weeks:November 26-27: SoliSC - Santa Caterina, Brazil November 28-29: Open Beach - Florianopolis, BrazilDecember 4: Conisli - Sao Paulo, BrazilDecember 5: LPI Exam at 4Linux in Sao Paulo,...