Monthly Archives: July 2009

U.S. Postal Service Switches To Linux

Matt | Published: July 26, 2009
U.S. Postal Service Gives Stamp of Approval To FOSS The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has switched 1,300 of the servers that manage its package tracking system to a Linux environment. The move has taken the better part of a year since all the original system code was written in Cobol and had to be converted for [...]
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Microsoft Submits Linux Kernel Code

Matt | Published: July 20, 2009
In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. Update: According to ZDNet — Microsoft originally was licensing the Linux drivers, also known as the Linux Integration Components (LIC), in a way that was in violation of the GPL. Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft [...]
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On Paywalls

Matt | Published: July 20, 2009
Charging for Access to News Sites What works in today’s web landscape are lean and mean organizations with little or no management bureaucracy — operations where nearly every employee is working on producing actual content.
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RedHat joins S&P 500

Matt | Published: July 20, 2009
As of Friday July 24, Red Hat will join the S&P 500 index.
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Google Prepares Operating System

Matt | Published: July 8, 2009
From the official Google Blog. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, [...]
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