Posts Tagged ‘Open Source’

There was many requests to publish one of my previous article in a form of a downloadable EBook. Keeping that in mind I am happy to publish an Ebook in pdf format for offline use. Please let me know if this effort has helped you in anyway. Download it here. | The original article was [...]

Back in July, Microsoft announced it was making .NET available under its Community Promise, which in theory allowed free software developers to use the technology without fear of patent lawsuits. Not surprisingly, many free software geeks were unconvinced by the promise (after all, what’s a promise compared to an actual open licence?), but now Microsoft [...]

Malaysia and Open Source

Posted: November 18, 2009 in Open Source
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More than 70 percent of Malaysian government offices are running open source software, according to figures released by the country’s Open Source Competency Centre. The centre was established as part of the 2004 Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan, to guide and co-ordinate the implementation of OSS in the public sector. The latest OSS adoption [...]

With the cloud computing wave poised to reach the world market in the next 12 to 18 months, open source software and coding techniques are about to hit the big time. That’s because open source software and the methodologies that accompany it have already been proven to be the chosen route for the vast majority [...]