«...Much of the communication on the Internet happens between computers according to standards that define common languages. If we are going to live in a free world using free software, our software must be allowed to speak these languages.

"Much of the communication on the Internet happens between computers according to standards that define common languages.

Google has added an experimental branch to the VP8 code tree, encouraging developers to begin work on the next incarnation of its newly open sourced video codec.

While scouring the far corners of the internet, we often run across tools that look great but come up just short of making the cut for a post.

Despite the Btrfs file system still being highly experimental, the MeeGo developers have chosen to use it in their embedded Linux distribution

Critics have reacted angrily after most of the proposed changes to a draft standard for Microsoft's Open Office (XML) standard were waved through at an ISO meeting last week in Geneva.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the fourth and “last call” draft for version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world's most widely used free software license. The Foundation will hear comments on the latest draft for 29 days, and expects to officially publish the license on Friday, June 29, 2007.

Some Compiz Fusion effects are unsupported and are not usually easily available from software repositories. I installed three well-known, but experimental, Compiz plugins: atlantis2, freewins, and screensaver.

The latest Dropbox experimental version adds AppIndicator support as well as finally allows Linux users to change the notification area icon. Here is the complete list of changes in the latest Dropbox experimental 0.8.55