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      <title><![CDATA[Response to John Naughon@The Observer re: Bill Gates jumbo-size problem  ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On Sunday May 7, 2006, John Naughon of The Observer wrote a piece titled <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1769108,00.html">A problem too jumbo-sized for Bill Gates to solve?</a>. In general, this was quite positive towards open source software, however there were a few points where John didn't fully appreciate or understand the the key differences between the Microsoft approach towards developing software, and the open source one. What follows is an email I sent to John clarifying a few of these differences.


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      <link>http://white.cyber.com.au/conz/blog/index.php?id=16</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2006 18:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Response to Michael Goulde's comments re: OpenOffice.org ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[CIO Today ran a piece on open source software and included some comments from Forrester's Michael Goulde, who made some rather disparaging comments about OpenOffice.org. What follows is my response, sent to both Michael and the editors of CIO Today.]]></description>
      <link>http://white.cyber.com.au/conz/blog/index.php?id=15</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2006 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Open letter to academics on Microsoft's 2020 Science Group]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Age newspaper's IT section had a front-page article discussing a letter sent by a group of women researchers to Bill Gates about Microsoft's 2020 Science Group programme. In essence, the women were raising the issue that no women researchers were included in that group. I decided to write my own letter in response to some of these women researchers, pointing out that there may be better ways to harness womens' research energies towards a better world in 2020, than by aligning themselves to Microsoft.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 12:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[In response to &quot;Free Code For Sale: The New Business of Open Source&quot;]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I recently read a piece by Christopher Koch in CIO magazine. It highlighted, to me, how far many in senior IT management positions have to go before they truly understand the benefits that the freedom inherent in open source software delivers to them. What follows is my email to Christopher outlining some of the business outcomes and advantages of such freedoms.
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Migration Models &amp; Open Source Software]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This posting is in response to an article published by Steve Andriole in IT Management, titled 'Rethinking Open Source Strategy'
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      <link>http://white.cyber.com.au/conz/blog/index.php?id=12</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[To David Coursey @ eWeek: Why Massachusetts Made the Right Decision]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Howdy David.

I need to point out some misperceptions in your analysis of the Massachusetts open document format decision. I've cc:'d Eric Kriss,  Secretary, Executive Office for Administration and Finance from that state. who may be able to shed more light.       ]]></description>
      <link>http://white.cyber.com.au/conz/blog/index.php?id=11</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Windows virus theory blown]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[You know how Microsoft keeps touting the idea that goes something like:  

 &quot;The only reason why Windows platforms are rife with viruses and Linux  isn't, is because our platforms have the market share?&quot;

Well, check this out:
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      <link>http://white.cyber.com.au/conz/blog/index.php?id=10</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[To James Gosling @ Sun]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Howdy James.
 
You recently gave an interview to ComputerWorld Australia's Rodney Gedda (Australian ComputerWorld, February 9th, 2005.)
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      <link>http://white.cyber.com.au/conz/blog/index.php?id=5</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[10 Reasons Why a Resurgent Mac is Great for Linux]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Will a resurgent Mac waylay Linux? Not likely. Here's why.]]></description>
      <link>http://white.cyber.com.au/conz/blog/index.php?id=9</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[LiveLAMP Goes Alpha]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[LiveLAMP will do for school computer programming education what Knoppix did for desktop Linux.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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