Tag: GPL
The What, Why and How of the GPL
Much of the world’s most important, commercially significant software is distributed under copyright licensing terms that give recipients freedom to copy, modify and redistribute...
Going Virtual With OpenVZ
This article is an introduction to OpenVZ, an open source container-based virtualisation solution for Linux.
In computing, virtualisation is the creation of a virtual version...
FOSS is __FUN__: The Fifth Freedom, Part 2
Stallman's classic definition of open source speaks of the four freedoms -- the freedom to run the program in any way one likes, the...
FOSS is __FUN__: The Fifth Freedom
Stallman's classic definition of open source speaks of the four freedoms -- the freedom to run the program in any way one likes, the...
An Interview with Richard Stallman on Freedom, Android, Amazon, Facebook, Steve...
Any government that tells people to teach proprietary software is essentially delivering the country into the hands of a company.
Before you even speak a...
FreeBSD 9.0 — Fast, Safe and Completely Geeky
Yes, I know, we're kind of late in getting this article out, but that's because there was a lot of things that were added...
UEFI: Should Linux Users be Worried?
Microsoft intends to capture UEFI and make GNU/Linux and other free OSs "unauthorised"! Is this true, and if so, what is the community doing...
Open Source Sets Microsoft’s Kinect Free
This first article in this series gives a brief overview of the Kinect sensor, the different terms used like natural user interface and machine...
Protecode: Software License Management is Like Any Other Quality Management Process
Someone rightly observed: "All code is guilty, until proven innocent." Ask the members of any software development team, and they will agree that tracking...
Virtualisation and Disk Management in OpenIndiana
In the previous part, we got acquainted with OpenIndiana -- how to install the base system, find and deploy packages, and perform maintenance tasks...
