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Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70

Oct13th
2011 Leave a Comment Written by Ferdinando Santacroce

“Unix is user-friendly. It’s just very selective about who its friends are.” Dennis Ritchie via Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70. Best goodbye page:  Dennis Ritchie: 1941-2011.

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First Billion Dollar Open Source Software Vendor

Sep23rd
2011 Leave a Comment Written by Ferdinando Santacroce

head_dunce writes: “Red Hat is doing very well in this economy. Total revenue and subscription revenue for this quarter is up 28% year-over-year. Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat said, ‘Based on the strong first half results, we believe Red Hat remains well positioned to finish fiscal 2012 as the first [...]

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Red Hat CEO thinks the desktop is becoming a legacy application

Aug20th
2011 Leave a Comment Written by Ferdinando Santacroce
Red Hat CEO thinks the desktop is becoming a legacy application

Want you back us to the mainframes?! Red Hat CEO thinks the desktop is becoming a legacy application | ZDNet.

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Robert Morris, man who helped develop Unix, dies at 78

Jul9th
2011 Leave a Comment Written by Ferdinando Santacroce
Robert Morris, man who helped develop Unix, dies at 78

Robert Morris, the cryptographer who helped create Unix, has died at the age of 78. Morris began his work on the groundbreaking OS back in 1970 at AT&Ts Bell Laboratories, where he played a major role in developing Unixs math library, password structure and encryption functions. via Robert Morris, man who helped develop Unix, dies [...]

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Red Hat CEO thinks the desktop is becoming a legacy application

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List of Companies that Pay Royalties to Microsoft for Using Android OS

List of Companies that Pay Royalties to Microsoft for Using Android OS

    According to Microsoft, Google’s Android OS is infringing on many of its patents and hence those manufacturers who use Android for their devices owe royalties to Microsoft. But the intriguing fact is that, instead of suing Google itself for infringing on its patents, Microsoft is finding it easy to sue or threaten smaller [...]

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Steve Jobs, Before the iPad, On Why Tablets Suck

“Apple didn’t release the first tablet computer or even come up with the idea for tablet computing itself. If anything, Microsoft, and Bill Gates in particular, were championing tablet computers years before the iPad was released. In this video clip from the first All Things D conference in 2003, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs explains [...]

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