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Open Source 2010: New Year's predictions.
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| New Year predictions are of course a
| licence to speculate. What's more the
| normal boundaries of sanity are loosened
| sufficiently to make the predictions fun
| rather than libellous.
|
| 'Predictions' in the above context are
| merely extrapolations of what has occurred
| already, (genuine sight of the future is
| best left to the psychics), so it's not
| really that hard to do if ... you look
| closely at what is going on now. But, the
| other component of a prediction uses what I
| call 'white space' analysis which involves
| looking for gaps and silences. In other
| words looking for lack of information. This
| is important.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/blogs/29-dec-2009/open-source-2010-new-years-predictions
2009: A year in review, November
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| The hardware end of the netbook world was
| quiet, but the software side exploded with
| the release of the source code for Google's
| forthcoming open-source, browser-based
| operating system Chrome OS. Within hours of
| release, enterprising hackers had managed
| to put together a working version that
| could be run in a virtualised window, so we
| had a play with it and found it to be a
| little lacking - just a browser window and
| nothing else. Hopefully Google can do a
| little better before it's finally released
| in 2010.
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http://m.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/30350
Open source in 2009
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| Unlike in previous years where each new
| release of a Linux distribution or an
| application was met with expectations of it
| being the killer app, this years OSS
| developments were more low-key, more
| circumspect. The idea that Linux is
| suddenly going to hit a critical mass and
| turn into the Microsoft-killer is fading,
| to be replaced with a more rationale view
| that Linux, Mac OS X and Windows will co-
| exist, even if uncomfortably, for many
| years to come. Linux is not going to wipe
| out Microsoft's dominance any time soon,
| just as Mac OS X is unlikely to turn the
| tables on Windows in the coming year.
|
| And yet, there was much progress in 2009
| that open source fans can celebrate. It was
| a year in which open source software became
| even more deeply entrenched, even if users
| weren't completely aware of the change.
| Even Microsoft started embracing open
| source software, albeit cautiously, with a
| few carefully thought out moves.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/10943.html
Recent:
A good year for desktop Linux
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| 2010 is going to be a good year for Linux on
| the desktop.
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http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusop.htm?f=2009/december/22/chinwong.isx&d=/2009/december/22
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