open source software and survival of the fittest
There has been lots of recent discussions about open source and how that either helps or hinders proprietary software, depending on your point of view. Open Source Software (OSS) is starting to gain more momentum: Firefox has almost 25% market share in December, 440 million downloads of Firefox 3.5 OpenOffice has over 100 million downloads [...]
Firefox 3.6 changes the java plugin
Firefox 3.6 is just around the corner, due to be delivered later this year. In testing I found out that the old java plugin version (libjavaplugin_oji.so) on opensolaris was no longer recognised and hence java apps didn’t work So what’s the deal? Since Java 6 update 10, there is a new implementation of the java [...]
