Todd Boss

March 2, 2010

Should Open Source Be An Enemy Of The State?

U.S. Trademark groups have decided that Open Source is an enemy of the free market, and therefore also an enemy of Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Well, that and it keeps their clients from making a few bucks.

8:31am | URL: http://blog.toddboss.com/post/422010533/should-open-source-be-an-enemy-of-the-state

FILED UNDER: tech open source

June 16, 2009

New cool list of Linux must-have programs

It’s all good, and it’s all free (some are available for Windows, too).

5:24pm | URL: http://blog.toddboss.com/post/124794390/new-cool-list-of-linux-must-have-programs

FILED UNDER: linux open source

April 20, 2009

Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player

Just think of all of the products this will affect: MySQL, OpenOffice, Java, VirtualBox, and the Oracle DB are included among the ones that I use personally. This will also give Oracle the opportunity to provide a complete stack for their Oracle Database and Applications. I can’t say that I’d mind buying an Oracle Database that runs on an OS and hardware that are tweaked for database performance and fully supported by Oracle.

I’m a bit afraid, however, of what will become of the Open Source products that they’ve acquired; specifically MySQL. I think that perhaps it’s time to get familiar with PostgreSQL. Heck, I can even code in PL/SQL over there…perhaps I should have done that a long time ago.

4:24pm | URL: http://blog.toddboss.com/post/98246100/oracle-buys-sun-now-owns-java-becomes-a-hardware

FILED UNDER: oracle money open source

March 25, 2009

FOSSFORUS - Free Open Source Software For Us

Sourceforge has posted a number of very nice Free software packages in an easy-to-use download site. I personally use many of these as they are usually better than the non-Free programs they replace.

Note: ~~if you’re not a Windows user, you’ll want to click “Settings” at the top of the screen and change the platform accordingly.~~ The site will detect your OS and display software that suits your platform. You can click “Settings” to see choices for other platforms.

10:41am | URL: http://blog.toddboss.com/post/89700110/fossforus-free-open-source-software-for-us

FILED UNDER: open source

February 17, 2009

Red Hat virtualization deal a major change for Microsoft

3:09pm | URL: http://blog.toddboss.com/post/79146452/red-hat-virtualization-deal-a-major-change-for

FILED UNDER: open source microsoft

February 11, 2009

Open letter to Obama: Uncle Sam should go open source

12:02am | URL: http://blog.toddboss.com/post/77371295/open-letter-to-obama-uncle-sam-should-go-open-source

FILED UNDER: tech open source

February 1, 2009

Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge

First Obama solicits a whitepaper on the benefits of Open Source, and now this! If the US government can show increased savings and security by going Free, enterprises will follow.

7:31pm | URL: http://blog.toddboss.com/post/74888163/defense-department-sets-up-its-own-sourceforge

FILED UNDER: tech open source

January 23, 2009

Obama wants to know: Why open source?

This can only be a good thing…

10:02pm | URL: http://blog.toddboss.com/post/72710930/obama-wants-to-know-why-open-source

FILED UNDER: tech open source

December 18, 2008

Myst Online goes open source, fans to make their own worlds

10:28am | URL: http://blog.toddboss.com/post/65561925/myst-online-goes-open-source-fans-to-make-their-own

FILED UNDER: open source games

November 17, 2008