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Retreating from Microsoft Saves French Millions

Looks like the frogs are on the right track dropping millions in licensing fees and switching to OpenOffice.org and open source software solutions.
The problem is that I’ve looked on Sourceforge and I can’t seem to find any open source deodorant…
A recent report has revealed that France’s national police force has saved an estimated 50 million [...]

Firefox Skips 3.0.6.9 Moves to 3.0.7

Why the fuck is this news!??!?!
When it’s fucking out, a little dialog will helpfully pop up in my browser and ask me if I want to update. I mean are there nerds out there that are crouched in their Aeron Chairs rocking back and forth waiting for the literal second they can download a [...]

What is 69 + 4? 69 Too Many Open Source Licenses

I believe in just a few licenses. I like GPL 2.0, BSD and MIT licenses. Creative Commons is such bullshit that it makes my hair hurtCreative Commons is such bullshit that it makes my hair hurt. You can’t frakkin’ Creative Commons License stuff!! That’s what Copyrights and Trademarks are for.
This [...]

Is VMware Next Netscape?

I decided to do a major clip job on the news that Paul Maritz of VMWare released an Open Source version of their VMware View client (links below). There are a few reasons why he did that, one being Open Source is a good way to get your product foot in the door and [...]

Open Share Icon Project – SVG Version

I don’t know what came over me last night, bored I guess, but I took the Open Share Icon PSD file from the Open Share Icon Project and made a scalable SVGW vector file out of it.
You can download the SVG file here: Open Share Icon Project Files

Open Share Icon Project

I don’t know if you saw this or not, of course since I’m writing to myself these days probably not, but I do a lot of WordPressW stuff and looking for a decent WordPress plugin for Social tagging and bookmarking for this site, I found the Open Share Icon Project.
The Open Share Icon Project | [...]