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InfoTech: Firefox upgrade has record downloads

With millions of downloads within hours of release, Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 has set its record for downloads. They say it's fas...

InfoTech: IBM / Sun deal off is good news for OSS community

The news that IBM was to buy Sun was not good news at all - for behind the headlines was a startling fact - between them they are buying up much of what underpins the open source community - and...

InfoTech: moving away from proprietary music formats

Scroll through your file types and you'll find WAV, WMA, MP3, RMA, iTunes and others that are all sound formats. And they are all proprietary. That means some else decides what you can do with th...

Open Source: operating system more than 25 years old

InfoTech: Open Source may be free but it's not free of restrictions.

In a judgment that states the obvious (at least to us) a US court has held that OpenSource software may be free of charge, but it is not free of conditions. That, surely, is the logical and corre...

Tech: MySQL sold to Sun

Sun Microsystems has tightened its hold on the internet and open source software with a deal that gives heart to developers, but concern to users.

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