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[News] Free Software Dmoninates the Web (CMSs, Servers, etc.)

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Free software is better for web pages

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| Despite the considerable advances that the free software has made in the last 
| years in its «market share» in different fields in informatics, only in a few 
| of this fields free software has the supremacy. One of these is the field of 
| web servers.   
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http://www.somgnu.org/free-software-is-better-for-web-pages/

Plat’Home OpenBlockS: Made in Japan

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| So what is this thing good for? Well, just about anything. If you want to 
| build a specialized solid state mission critical appliance that runs a custom 
| PHP/MySQL application, or want to develop VPN gateways and Asterisk VOIP 
| routers, or just like to hack around with a low-power Linux machine under 
| your desk at work, this is the geek’s equivalent of a Linux Heathkit. 
| Plat’Home has also recently started a contest where you can win a Microserver 
| if you can come up with some great application that beats the living hell out 
| of it.       
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9197

Microsoft has recently resorted to molesting Apache.


Days ago:

Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?

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| But Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on. If they have to
| live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction.
| Apache doesn't use the dreaded GPL and its enforced sharing of source-code.
| Instead, the Apache license is practically a no-strings gift, with a weak
| provision against patent lawsuits as its most relevant term. Microsoft can
| take Apache software and embrace and enhance, providing their own versions of
| the project's software with engineered incompatibility and no available
| source, just as they forced incompatibility into the Web by installing IE
| with every Windows upgrade.
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| IE is derived from Mosaic, the original Web browser, open source with a
| license similar to Apache's. So, this isn't a new strategy. The plan, then,
| could be to have Microsoft servers vie for dominance with their own –
| Microsoft specialized – versions of Apache applications. Or it could be that
| Microsoft sees itself replacing Linux in the market as a hosting platform for
| open source....
|
| So, this $100,000 contribution and the partial patent grant aren't about
| interoperability. It's for publicity, and to convince government regulators,
| not the most technical people in the world, that Microsoft has joined open
| source and is now a well-behaved company, no anti-trust issues at all. The
| bad part for open source is that Microsoft is increasingly in a position to
| speak to European legislators as an insider in the open source community
| while requesting increases in software patenting that would block open
| source.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3762786/Bruce+Perens+Microsoft+and+Apache+-+Whats+the+Angle?.htm


Recent:

Microsoft and Apache

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| It all sounds good. But Apache is no threat to Microsoft, their projects run
| on Microsoft systems and their license doesn't prevent "embrace and enhance".
| Linux, GNU, OpenOffice, those are more of a threat. This is, obviously, a
| strategic move by Microsoft. I'm trying to convince myself that we
| didn't "get owned".
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/7/25/46596
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