Nicholas Petreley

Articles by Nicholas Petreley

Trolltech wins the battleless Gnome/KDE war

Everywhere you look there are so-called corporate, product and technology wars.

Linux distributors are dropping like flies

Even though MandrakeSoft SA boasts that its Linux distribution is the hottest in retail sales, the company...

Linux development platform spec a waste of time

After three years of hibernation, LSB has finally produced a deliverable. It is called the Linux Development...

Information doesn’t want to be free

I'm an open-source, free software and free speech advocate. But some of the catchphrases of the open-source...

Is little Billy the life of the party?

The highlight of Billy's birthday party was the breaking of the pi

North American geeks flock in annual migration

I don't know what you do for a hobby, but I find it interesting to track the migration ...

Guest Column: OS Horror story:

In October 1999, three student filmmakers disappeared in a building in Redmond, Washington, while shooting a documentary....

Talkin’ bout a freeware revolution

Is the open-source movement going to revolutionize the software economy? I believe so, but not the way...

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