Pixarra Introduces the free full featured digital painting and photo editing software TwistedBrush Open Studio.
Chicago, IL (
) January 6, 2009 -- Pixarra today introduced TwistedBrush Open Studio, a free digital paint and photo editing Windows software package built from the powerful and easy to use TwistedBrush Pro Studio platform. TwistedBrush Open Studio is released as free software that will not expire and is not crippled. Based off of TwistedBrush Read the rest of this entry »

TechCrunch: EMC Acquires SourceLabs, And With It Open Source Documentation Project SWiK
, provider of a set of tools and services used to support open source software like Linux, at least according to
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The company sells subscriptions for enterprise support, maintenance, and upgrades for open source software, including SASH, offers a proprietary Open Source Management System and is also behind the wiki website
, a community project that Read the rest of this entry »

Source code is the set of instructions that some
programmer wrote for your electronic device. That programmer may very well have
been me, and I may have told that device to despise you and to do anything in
its power to make your life hell. Keeping that in mind, take a long, hard look
at your laptop. Do you have any idea what that thing is thinking right now? I
do, because I told it to find out what you’re thinking, and then tell me so I
can Read the rest of this entry »

The past year brought some exciting advancements for the Linux operating system and open source software. Open technology continues to become more pervasive and the Linux kernel is now widely used in a multitude of mainstream products ranging from set-top boxes to mobile phones. With 2008 coming to a close, we wanted to take a minute to look at some events of significance to the open source software community.
Mozilla's Firefox web browser is Read the rest of this entry »

Source code is the set of instructions that some
programmer wrote for your electronic device. That programmer may very well have
been me, and I may have told that device to despise you and to do anything in
its power to make your life hell. Keeping that in mind, take a long, hard look
at your laptop. Do you have any idea what that thing is thinking right now? I
do, because I told it to find out what you’re thinking, and then tell me so I
can Read the rest of this entry »

Last November, Openbravo, an open-source software (OSS) company in business for less than three years, celebrated the one-millionth combined download of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) and point-of-sale applications. While the number of actual deployments is far less, given that developers often download the software as part of a tire-kicking exercise, the high interest in an open-source application as sophisticated as ERP reflects the increasing Read the rest of this entry »

December 31st, 2008
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Metered computing, as outlined by Microsoft in a patent application, isn’t the worst idea I’ve heard — but it ranks up there with other spectacular failures like the original
, AOL dial-up, and the 2008 Detroit Lions.
The idea, as
, is that people would buy “heavily subsidized” (cheap) PCs, but then pay charges based on how much computing time and processing Read the rest of this entry »

If you're one of the lucky ones who received a shiny new PC under the tree ... congratulations. Twice if it's an Apple. Before you fire up your new baby, you will need to do some maintenance.
The first, if you have a Windows PC, is anti-virus software.
Really. Before you do anything else. I know, you think your PC came with antivirus protection. It may have, but your work is not done. If it came with a trial version, you need to decide if you're Read the rest of this entry »

model works -- it addresses two of the biggest challenges for IT professionals: the high cost of infrastructure software and the limitations a closed stack imposes on the enterprise. Open source is particularly appealing for the following reasons:
-- Users do not pay a license fee to adopt open source software nor do they pay for updates, eliminating the large upfront cost typically associated with infrastructure development and significantly reducing Read the rest of this entry »

OPEN source software can reduce costs and improve security dramatically, yet many people are a bit apprehensive about getting their feet wet. Typical of this concern, reader John Cohon wrote in with a number of questions about shifting to open source. To the extent that my answers to him might help other companies or individuals make the shift, I’m running them here.
Question: If one were to do the big shift from Microsoft Windows software Read the rest of this entry »