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On-line applications "just work"; why worry about the freedom of the licence?
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| So here’s the thing: I predict a greater shift to online applications by more
| people. No surprise there; but I also predict we’ll be accessing these
| applications via a wider range of devices. Again nothing new there, but I
| wanted to say it. Finally I predict that more of these will be using free
| software. The days of proprietary software houses were numbered when GNU
| started to gain traction. GNU/Linux, Apache, Firefox, OpenOffice.org have all
| showed what can be done with free software. Google has added weight to this
| with Android and Chrome. On-line application providers operate under much
| tighter margins than traditional software providers. They need more than
| cheap software to run on, they need software that gives them the freedom to
| provide us with the services we demand.
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| So far from just having room for free software, the future could very well
| depend upon it.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/line_applications_just_work_so_why_worry_about_freedom_licence
Yesterday:
SDK shoot-out: Android vs. iPhone
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| The iPhone and Android phones both ship with Web browsers based on the WebKit
| rendering engine. That means Web applications designed for one will render
| almost identically on the other, provided their developers adhere to
| published standards. Those same applications will also render on WebKit-based
| desktop browsers, such as Safari and Google Chrome, and on any other browsers
| that implement the standards correctly.
|
| Based on that, all this talk of SDKs seems almost foolish. The iPhone may
| have more market share than Android today, but the standards-based Web has
| far more market share than both combined. So you tell me: If you're a
| developer, where's the smart money? The iPhone App Store? The Android SDK? Or
| somewhere else?
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/fatalexception/archives/2008/09/sdk_shootout_an.html
A brief history of computers and free software: where is the money?
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| So, between 1996 and 2006 software (and data) moved away from people’s
| computers, and ended up in the “cloud” — that is, online. Software running
| locally on a computer became more and more a commodity, and less and less
| like something that was worth paying for. The Internet changed everything. A
| computer without an Internet connection was already considered mostly
| useless.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/brief_history_computers_and_free_software_where_is_the_money
How to Run Web Apps from Your Desktop
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| Don't get the impression that flavor of the month Chrome created the
| app-in-a-window paradigm. Mozilla Labs's Prism project is almost a year old—
| older actually, since it was known as WebRunner before that.
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| Prism's SSB ability is much the same as that of Chrome's application windows.
| Its current form is a simple Firefox 3.0 extension and runs on Windows, Mac
| OS, and Linux. (If you haven't upgraded Firefox to 3.0—and you should—you can
| still download Prism from Mozilla Labs as a standalone app for all three
| operating systems.)
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331072,00.asp
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