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Bill Gates' legacy hailed by IT chiefs
News Bill Gates formally steps down from his day-to-day role at Microsoft on Friday 27 June to pursue his philanthropic efforts through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and IT chiefs have hailed his legacy to the industry. [26 Jun 2008]
Google invests in web to fight disaster
News Google, through its charitable foundation Google.org, has invested $5m in the project. InStedd has also received $1m from the Rockefeller Foundation, and another six-figure amount from a foundation associated with venture capitalist and Google... [17 Jan 2008]
Techies "lack business and leadership skills"
News Richard Storey, head of IT, Guys & St Thomas' Foundation Hospital NHS Trust Will Thornton-Reid, JD Williams head of systems, said: "Early training should be set up to lead into a strategic role. IT directors should be better suited to a strategic... [13 Jun 2007]
Sun puts Debian founder on the payroll
News Murdock's most recent job was chief technology officer of the Linux Foundation and chairman of that group's Linux Standard Base effort. However, arguably the most successful Debian derivative, Canonical's Ubuntu, isn't a member, and one DCC... [20 Mar 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: Stories of the year
News He's not off to start a new start-up but to dedicate more energy to his charitable foundation. Bill Gates, founder of the biggest brand in IT and posterchild for the industry, has relinquished his title of chief software architect and by mid-2008... [20 Dec 2006]
Yale women hit out at gender slur
News Data from the National Science Foundation shows that the female share of bachelor's degrees in computer science dropped from 37 per cent in 1985 to 28 per cent in 2001. Summers offered several theories as to why fewer women reach top-level posts in... [23 Feb 2005]
"Software patents are a way of life"
News Among them Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation; Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, which piggybacked on Stallman's Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) operating system project; and Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache Web server... [16 Feb 2005]
Patents - weapons of mass [software] destruction?
News He was joined in a panel discussion by Brian Behlendorf, a co-founder of the Apache web server software, and Mitch Kapor, chairman of the Mozilla foundation and the Open Source Applications Foundation. [02 Feb 2005]
Google poaches Firefox programmer
News Despite no longer being employed by the Mozilla Foundation, "my role with Firefox and the Mozilla project will remain largely unchanged", Goodger said on his blog. Microsoft would like you to continue not to think about your software and continue... [26 Jan 2005]
CIA checks out chatrooms
News You have to be careful that the National Science Foundation doesn't become the National Spy Foundation. Even though the money ostensibly comes from the National Science Foundation, CIA officials were involved in selecting recipients for the... [25 Nov 2004]
Palladium: A must or a menace?
News Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and co-founder of the GNU project for creating free versions of key Unix programs, lampooned the technology in a recent column as "treacherous computing". [08 Nov 2002]
Tony Blair's speech in full... (part one)
News In particular, we must recognise that the greater economic stability we have achieved - lower inflation, low interest rates, low unemployment - is only a foundation. It is a Government role that is enabling, creating the infrastructure of learning... [19 Nov 2001]
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