VA Drops Enterprise Software, Becomes Sourceforge Inc.
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| The company said the moves are in response to the dynamics of Web 2.0, the
| new business model in which traditional software is beginning to give way
| to advertising-funded Web-based services.
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| [...]
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| Other properties that are part of Sourceforge include another
| open-source project site, Freshmeat, and enterprise Linux
| resource site Linux.com.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070525/tc_pcworld/132240
At the forefront of Web-based software:
Firefox 3.0 passes major milestone
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| Mozilla has met a major milestone in its march to Firefox 3.0,
| developers said yesterday, by adding another chunk of the new
| Places feature to the alpha set for release late next week.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1302294021&rid=-50
Web-based services make Linux very attractive (full compatibility) and hurt
Microsoft very badly (cash cows replaced).
Related:
First Look: Firefox 3 Alpha 4
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| Alpha 4 is the fastest version of Firefox yet, though how much of
| that is a result of running the browser with no extensions, versus
| actual speed increase is open to debate.
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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/first_look_fire.html
Firefox 3 To Support Offline Apps
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| Robert O'Callahan from Mozilla, who is based in NZ but drives the
| rendering engine of Mozilla/FireFox, spoke about how Firefox 3 will
| deliver support for offline applications.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/firefox_3_offline_apps.php
Basing the Design of History on the User's Memory
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| I've been talking with Justin Dolske about possibly prototyping some
| of these ideas, so perhaps an extension will be featured on labs
| sometime in the future.
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http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/01/13/basing-the-design-of-history-on-the-users-memory/
Firefox (on a development branch) passing the Acid2 test
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| This is a build of Firefox on the reflow branch, a development branch
| on which I'm making major changes to the way Gecko does intrinsic
| width computation and incremental layout, showing the Acid2 test
| being passed.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbaron/126886608/
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