ARLINGTON, Texas – It’s the Texas Rangers, of course, who have the advantages of a lead in the American League Championship Series, two home games to win one, and the deeper lineup and bullpen. And yet they could have a problem with the Detroit Tigers. See, this underdog stuff, this guts-and-glory stuff, this team-of-destiny stuff, [...]
Despite the growing momentum of the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is urging the community of volunteer developers to rally around the OpenOffice code base as the canonical version of the open source software suite. The OpenOffice project is now officially an Apache Podling, which is the first step in becoming [...]
Dennis M. Ritchie, who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools that power everything from search engines like Google to smartphones, was found dead Wednesday at his home in Berkeley Heights, N.J. He was 70. Ritchie, who lived alone, had been in frail health in recent years after treatment for prostate cancer [...]
