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Indeed, "most developer jobs require current knowledge of non-open software," asserted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. The list of jobs varies over time, of course, "but it's a safe bet to say that most jobs are not 'open' jobs," she add...

Finally, for Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, Ubuntu has bigger problems to worry about than just Unity Namely, Unity aside, "this latest Ubuntu doesn't make a jot of difference to the world because it doesn't add to the list of programs th...

Indeed, "there's a time and a place," agreed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "Urinating on the open grave of someone you did not know personally, with no consideration for their friends, family, or co-workers, is simply not done." Stallman...

Last but certainly not least, Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, took a more measured view "I know it's going to sound like a cop-out, but I say, 'It depends,'" Hudson told Linux Girl. "It depends on the task at hand, the final objective, and...

Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, was similarly impressed "I don't have much use for office suites, but I have noticed that when I actually DO use OpenOffice -- oops, sorry, Oracle -- LibreOffice, it's gotten a lot better than it used to be...

Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, wasn't sure it would get even that far. 'Take Two Tablets and See a Doctor'...

"Moblin, Maemo, Meego, Tizen in less than 2 years? STOP ALREADY!" exclaimed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "Nobody cares. Really. All this latest name change does is shout 'Disorganized!'" Tizen's plans to target smartphones, tablets, sma...

Similarly, Red Hat "won't be the first company to make a billion dollars a year off of open source (Google and IBM spring to mind), but as a 'pure play linux distro vendor,' this is great news," opined Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "There's certainly a halo effect for all linux-based endeavors."

Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, took a measured view "At first, I was NOT happy to hear about this," Hudson told Linux Girl. "Then I got to thinking ... manufacturers will mostly let the end user enable or disable this at boot time, if onl...

"The penguin is fine -- people actually associate the penguin with linux," asserted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site "The competition? How about an apple with a bite out of it. I wonder, did someone have a run-in of Biblical proportions with ...

"They better hope Nintendo doesn't sue them," warned Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "It's the same interface as the Wii, except with the Wii you don't get smudges on the screen." As for whether it will affect Linux, "I don't know, but I t...

5. The RPL is copyright (c) 2011 Barbara Hudson. Permission is granted to use the unmodified RPL to license your software. The canonical copy of this license, the release notes, FAQ, etc., can be consulted at http://milsecure.org End of license...

Bruce Perens recently introduced what he calls a "Covenant" open source license on behalf of Lexis-Nexis, owned by Reed Elsevier (readers may know them better as "the scientific journal paywall people"), for one of Lexis-Nexis' internal projects ...

Similarly, "it's interesting that both Hudson and Jenkins were included, seeing as Jenkins is a fork of Oracle's Hudson," noted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "I would also take issue with one sentence from the press release: 'The 2011 ...

Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, took a similar view "A developer's remote machine co-located on the same network was compromised, their password sniffed, and used to do some monkey business on the kernel servers," Hudson told Linux Girl. "...

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For Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, it's all good "I keep hearing these calls for 'Linux unification' and 'one distribution to rule them all' and 'unifying the desktop,' but this survey reinforces the 'choice is good' mantra -- people *want...

Barbara Hudson Please note that when I wrote "a license is not a contract," I did so only in the sense that it's not an agreement negotiated between parties. Also, the question of whether old code needs to be replaced if it's byte-for-byte identical actually isn't that simple ...

It's actually laptops that continue to dominate the market, according to Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "How can they not when the local big-box is selling name-brand 15.6-inch quad-core laptops with 6 gigs of ram and a 750 gig hard driv...