Tag Archives: market

Why free software applications are a priority on mobile platforms (not device drivers)

Posted on 17 March, 2010 by Stef

Bradley wrote about mobile software freedom, a field that I’m obviously deep into because of my work at Funambol. His quite long article Musings on Software Freedom for Mobile Devices contains an analysis of the situation, which mobile platforms are … Continue reading →

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Skype open source. Not!

Posted on 2 November, 2009 by Stef

Skype open source? Reading the full announcement on Skype blog: [...]Having an open source UI will help us [...] So, it’s not Skype being open sourced, but it’s only the UI. The full sentence should be: Having an open source … Continue reading →

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Mobile phone markets are designed to split our community

Posted on 6 April, 2009 by Stef

Apple’s iPhone biggest innovation is its mobile app store: for the first time it allowed installing software on the mobile device with the convenience of any modern GNU/Linux distribution. Like in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, installing software is just a matter … Continue reading →

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Buy, sell, regret. A lesson from a good professor

Posted on 9 April, 2008 by Stef

My professor of International Economics, Fabio Sdogati, is quite a character: he has a very effective teaching style and I really like to go to his lessons. Last night’s lesson was about exchange rates policies. He was showing a graph … Continue reading →

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