The Linuxologist

Time and time again I made it clear how disgruntled am with the mobile phone industry and specifically the dreaded iPhone.  Luckily, over here in Saudi Arabia, carriers haven’t yet discovered (or maybe don’t have AT&T’s clout) locking phones as a “business” model. So the issue doesn’t affect me directly – bar for phones exported [...]

In an earlier article we established that piracy of software is basically a given in today’s world where information is so easily shared and duplicated. We also established that no matter what DRM measures are implemented by commercial software developers, no matter how advanced or how draconian they are, someone’s always going to find a [...]

This is a guest post by Ian McLean, an Australian Linux and Open Source aficionado currently based in Romania.

The Information Age: Where Everything Is Free
I once was having a light conversation with a student friend of mine and told him about OpenOffice.org; I said that it’s free to get and use, it does nearly everything [...]