Gentoo's Portage to be ported to Windows Services for UNIX A group of Windows programmers is working on porting Gentoo's Portage over to Windows SFU. If you don't know already, Windows Services for UNIX is a full POSIX subsystem for Windows, enabling it to compile and run almost any software that will compile on BSD, …

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Computer Economics: research on strategic and financial management of information systems has results on a survey they held on why organisations choose an Open Source solution. Computer Economics recently conducted a survey of visitors to its website regarding the perceived advantages in the use of open source …

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Dutch academics declare research free-for-all It has been there for a while, but now it's official. I'm linking to the english summary on the register, the actual site where the stuff is accessible is in Dutch.

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Feature: No More Free BitKeeper: Linus, not interested in a one sided deal even when he's on the winning side, decided for this and other reasons to migrate away from BitKeeper and to begin looking for an alternative. It will be interesting to see how this works out.

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Chris Rathjen : Team Foundation vs. Subversion: Shelving Chris compares the two different mechanisms used for a concept introduced in Team Foundation (TFS) known as Shelving. It is a concept where you put a certain state of your development environment ( workspace, repository, whatever the local term is you are used …

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