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These are the current fronts in which the software wars are being fought.

But it seems that a new warfront is being fought in the sphere of soft drinks with Bing Soda, Microsoft Soda and Ubuntu Cola

Four years ago to this day, 7 Oct 2005, linuxNUS was officially born. That is to day, of course, that we were officially recognised as a Student Special Interest Group. Of course, that doesn’t mean that we weren’t around before that. linuxNUS first came into existence on 6 Jul 2005, as our Yahoo! Group, which still serves as our primary mailing list till this day. Before 7 Oct though, we were a loosely organised, but nontheless motivate bunch, determined to bring the value and benefit of open source software to …

All right, I’ll cut right to the chase with this one, and won’t pull any punches. Let me be the first to say, It can be a pain trying to use only Free and open source software.

There. I’ve said it. Now I await the pitchforks.

Before you toss me into the vat of boiling oil for heresy, however, hear me out. We’ve all been in this fix before. We really, really, want to use only open source software, but there are just so many things that stand in our way.  That …

From our mailing list archive:

The Free and Open Source Alliance (FOSA.sg) would like to invite you  to take part in Software Freedom Day Singapore 2009. We have a number of events lined up for you next month on September 18 and 19 at the Singapore Management University, Bras Basah and the National Library Building, Bugis, and we hope you’ll be able to join in.

We’ll have events all day on both days. On Friday (September 18),  we’ll be organizing a series of talks at the NLB, providing an overview of setting up and using free …

A piece about Open Source trends in Singapore, which is part of a roundup on Open Source in Asia.

And some snippets from Red Hat CEO’s recent address at SIM .

Good to see Open Source in Singapre growing slowly but steadily.

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