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Torvald’s Thumbs Up, Gates’ Computer Skills & More…
FOSS Week in Review Canadians spy at airports The more we see of the Snowden revelations the more we wonder, when did the English speaking world become a police state? The latest news was reported...
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Is Microsoft Considering Windroid?
Tom Warren reported on The Verge yesterday that he’s been hearing some skinny that Microsoft is considering making some changes to Windows Phone to allow it to run Android apps. The same plan didn’t...
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Redmond FUDs FOSS While Forking Android & More…
FOSS Week in Review Botnet steals bitcoins We figure that any currency that can’t be safely tucked into a mattress isn’t secure, so we haven’t been too quick to jump on the bitcoin bandwagon. Needless...
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Galaxy Backdoor, RIT Offers Open Source Minor & More…
FOSS Week in Review Java is the target for half of all exploits We’ve been saying for a couple of years now that Java isn’t safe and have been urging everyone who will listen to disable Java in the...
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When the Police Can Brick Your Phone
“Tyranny. Pure and simple. If it is software, somebody will find a way to hack it. If it is hardware, ‘old’ smartphones will be worth their weight in platinum.” My friend Ross from Toronto made this...
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The Trouble With Android
I hope there are no marketers in heaven, who create demand for profit while claiming they’re only “giving the public what they want.” What would you do if you were offered a choice between a carrot or...
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Benjamin Kerensa on Firefox OS & Internet Freedom
According to the Mozilla Developer Network, Firefox OS is an open source mobile operating system based on Linux, open web standards and Mozilla’s Gecko technology. But there’s more to it that that:...
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Questions on Ubuntu Touch, GNOME and Oracle
FOSS Week in Review Other than the continuous scrambling to fix Shellshocked — if nothing else we in the FOSS world are both quick to respond to fixes and quick to come up with great names for epic...
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Debian, Ubuntu Touch & More…
FOSS Week in Review Larry’s taking a much deserved day off, so I got elected to do this Week in Review. Glad to be back in the saddle. Here’s hoping that all in the U.S. had an enjoyable Thanksgiving...
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Uber’s Problems With Local Regulators
Uber’s been shut down again. It seems as if city officials in Portland, Oregon take exception with the online car-for-hire service’s plans to take to their city’s streets without bothering with little...
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San Francisco & LA Sue Uber
There’s more bad news for Uber. The company was sued yesterday in a joint action by San Francisco and Los Angeles. San Francisco is the online ride sharing company’s headquarters. The lawsuit lists...
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Big Brother & Smartphone Driver’s Licenses
Iowa has come up with a plan which I’m adding to my “bad idea” list — driver’s license by phone app. It seems that beginning next year, which is now less than three weeks away, the good and cold state...
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Get Out the Vote for LinuxQuestions.org
Ken Starks — I love him like a brother, but I hate following him every Wednesday here at FOSS Force after his Tuesday column runs, because every time — week in and week out — his column is always a...
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Welcome to the Pre-Post-PC Era
And the hits just keep on coming… Today’s float on the parade of the PC-is-dead prognostications comes from The Register, which says, “At the very moment that Linux desktops seem to be reaching new...
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A FOSS Wish List for 2015
First my FOSS predictions for 2015: cloud, systemd, vulnerabilities, containers, and Linus uses the “F” word. Let’s forget predictions; they’re boring. They’re either too obvious or they’re not likely...
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Firefox OS: It’s Not You, It’s Me
I hate breakups. Even when they’re for the best, breakups have a tendency never to go well when executed — a difficult but apt word for it — and there’s always some heartbreak involved. So it breaks my...
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Pono Is Here, High Def Open Source Codec (Sort of) & All
Neil Young’s long promised high def music device, Pono, is out and I am jammed. Not that I’m ever going to be able to buy one, mind you. But if I were entrenched middle class, the type of person who...
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Microsoft Can’t Sell Laptops or Phones
Microsoft continues its slide into irrelevance, as least as far as consumer tech is concerned. Even the company’s successes, like the Surface Pro, are only relative successes. No matter how hopeful...
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Samsung’s Spying TVs, Ubuntu Phone Sells Out & More…
FOSS Week in Review Larry Cafiero is busy working for SCALE (pun intended), so you’re stuck with me for another week. Sorry. Ubuntu Phone sale is gone in a flash The sale of the first ever Ubuntu phone...
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OSCON Moves, Nokia’s on the Phone & More…
FOSS Week in Review Larry’s hanging out up near the 49th parallel, in Bellingham, Washington, for the LinuxFest Northwest conference. He’ll be filing reports over the weekend and possibly on Monday, so...
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