Although mainly just a bug-fix release, there is something special in the newest release of the GNU Compiler Collection. It is the first release, where the compilers are licensed under version 3 of the General Public License.
The next release 4.3, which is currently under development, includes more profound changes. Among them is (currently experimental) support […]
Archive for the ‘Free Software’ Category
Microsoft is going to release the new version of it’s Works office software free in a few months time. The software will be ad supported. This is probably due to the increasing number of free competitors, among them OpenOffice and Google Docs and Spreadsheets.
It will be interesting to see whether this will have any effect […]
I find it interesting how Bill Thompson describes the contradiction at the heart of internet in his most recent comment at BBC Tech: “It is a mutual enterprise that relies absolutely on co-operation, but the resulting network supports the harshest and most brutal free market ever created.”
I think that was a fair description of internet […]