Tag Archive | "Open Source"
Software activist Richard Stallman calls cellphones “Stalin’s dream”
Free software advocate Richard Stallman is an interesting fellow. Known as an American software activist, Stallman studied at both Harvard and MIT and is well-known for launching the GNU Project in 1983 and for taking his passion for non-proprietary software to ridiculous extremes. To wit, here’s the setup he uses. I am using a Lemote Yeelong, […]
Continue reading...Another Steve Jobs email, this time about open standards and open source
Saturday, May 1, 2010
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After reading Steve Jobs’ thoughts on Flash (i.e why Flash sucks), Hugy Roy of Berlin emailed Jobs the following: Dear Steve Jobs, Having read your Thoughts on Flash, I could not agree with you more. Flash is not the Web, and I am glad Apple seizes the opportunity of open standards to build better products for […]
Continue reading...VLC development for the Mac is in dire straits
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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The VLC media player can handle almost any kind of video format you throw at it, and is a must have app for anyone running OS X. I mean, how else are you gonna watch all those torrented. avi files? But as a piece of open source software, the VLC media player relies upon the […]
Continue reading...Does Psystar’s Rebel EFI software contain code covered by an Apple Public Source License?
Thursday, October 29, 2009
In their latest attempt at a shameless money-grab, Florida based clonemaker Psystar recently released its Rebel EFI software which purports to enable users to install copies of OS X on non-Apple hardware. Early reviews of the software have been overwhelmingly critical, with the overarching consensus being that the software provides little to no documentation and […]
Continue reading...Apple releases source code to Grand Central Dispatch under open source license
Saturday, September 12, 2009
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The recent release of Snow Leopard marks Apple’s first attempt since the initial release of OS X to focus almost exclusively on under the hood system performance and take a breather from a rapid infusion of marketable features. One of the more significant under the hood improvements in Snow Leopard is Grand Central Dispatch, a […]
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
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