The New App Store

It offers easy access to thousands of free applications. It offers the ability to purchase applications. It launched in October 2010. It's...

Apple's October 20th 2010 updates and why I'm not impressed

Yesterday, Apple had a press conference where they announced some updates and new stuff. I'm going to go over them and give my opinions on each of them in my post.

Does the "You get what you pay for" saying always hold true? Also, some FUD.

Microsoft recently started a campaign as Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice.org . It's filled with propaganda and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). Since OO.o is free and is increasingly gaining market-share, Microsoft is obviously getting scared that now less people are using their overpriced office suite.

With that out of the way, on to the video.

LibreOffice, a fork that isn't cutlery

I figured I should write a bit about what LibreOffice is since my next post gives a brief mention of it.

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, they gained four open-source projects that Sun was working on. MySQL (Database engine), OpenOffice.org (Office suite), OpenSolaris (Unix-based operating system), and Virtualbox (Virtual Machine application). It's not really that Oracle was being hostile towards these projects, it was more that they ignored them outright... except OpenSolaris, they killed that off. Because these projects are open-source, people (likely developers) are able to obtain the source code and create a fork of the project. OpenSolaris was forked into Illumos and OpenIndiana. MySQL has a bunch of forks, but they aren't as popular as the OpenOffice and OpenIndiana forks.

I think I'm going to give this another go

It's been about 8 months since I've made a new blog post. I think I'm going to try getting back into blogging. I'll see how it goes.