PCMech – I don’t like Google Docs. I don’t like Microsoft Office Live either. But I do like OpenOffice. A lot. Wondering if there was any means of using the OO suite online, I did some searching and found that yes, there is a way. It’s done thru Ulteo’s web site.

After signing up for a free account with Ulteo you’re greeted with [...] read more

Pulse 2 – Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has bought OpenedHand, a mobile Linux development company that is based in London, England. OpenedHand will be powering low-power laptops and mobile devices through their Linux software stack built for Intel Atom processors. The developers that focus on building the Linux software stack is known as the Mobile Software [...] read more

Free Software Magazine – By rights, copyright really shouldn’t apply to binary executables, because they are purely “functional” (not “expressive”) works. The decision to extend copyright to binaries was an economically-motivated anomaly, and that choice has some counter-intuitive and detrimental side-effects. What would things in the free software world look like if the courts had decided otherwise? For one thing, the implementation of copyleft would have to be completely different. [...] read more