I’m quite highly anticipating the release of Google Chrome OS – Google’s net book and appliance cloud operating system. There are a few main reasons behind this. Simplicity and Openness Note that I combine the two here. It is very important that both software user friendliness is combined with the nature of free and open source software to prevent [...]
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Google Chrome OS Raising Awareness of Open Source Software
Contacular PHP Contact Form
This is just a quick post to announce the recent start of one of my recent open source projects, Contacular. I have been building up Contacular’s overall feature set over the past week, having made the initial release on the 25th of January 2010. I now believe it is worthy of a post here, based [...]
Don’t be evil licensing
Google, who brought forward the specifics of the ‘do no evil’ ideology within consumer visible software, is refusing to host an open-source project due to slight, almost humorous, modifications to its license, denying ‘evil’ use of the licensed software. Douglas Crockford selected the MIT license for his JSMin program to reduce JavaScript code syntax in such a way to make it [...]
Google Chrome OS – A Simple Explanation
Google have released a very simple explanatory video, aimed at new computer users, detailing their new operating system which is focused around the Google Chrome web browser. If you’ve ever needed to ask, what is the difference between Google Chrome OS and Google Chrome, this video explains the answer in the simplest manner possible. Google [...]
OSS – Open-source software and the related freedoms
What is open-source software? Open-source software is software which is under a special type of license in which the source code, which is usually copyrighted, is instead open to all. Specifically, this refers to code which meets the Open Source Definition for code licensing or is released to the public domain, and thus available without [...]