"Maybe this is old news, but I was checking Facebook’s terms of use to see if something had changed since the last time I saw them. But everytime I read this, I keep getting surprised and annoyed. The following is the exact quote from the terms of use that makes me think twice about uploading any pictures to my photo gallery..."
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Carnival on Modern Liberty No. 2
"Welcome to the second edition of the Carnival on Modern Liberty, chronicling the online debate in the run up to the Convention on Modern Liberty at the end of the month..."
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Zenoss Community Day - February 20th in Los Angeles at SCALE 7x
On February 20th Zenoss will be conducting our first Zenoss Community Day the event will be held in Los Angeles as a precursor to the 7th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 7x).
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Linux runs my life :-)
So I use Linux for most aspects of my tech life. I only run Windows at school or work but nearly 99% of the time I am running Linux...So how about you? What do you run Linux, or BSD (that means you Mac guys), on?
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Happy 15th!
"15 years ago, on January 29th 1994 Rob (lilo) Levin first joined the channel #linuxneo on the EFNet IRC network. This date has since been referred to as the conceptual moment, the foundation, the cornerstone which later led to the network you now know as freenode..."
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Encyclopædia Britannica fights back against Wikipedia, soon to let users edit contents
"Encyclopædia Britannica, the authoritative reference book first published in 1768, is to let readers edit its entries, Jorge Cauz, its president said Friday, as it battles to keep pace with online Internet encyclopedia projects like Wikipedia..." -- NB: Internet encyclopedias should promote free formats ;)
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Time to move to Funtoo Linux
I have been planning to move to Funtoo Linux, a derivative of Gentoo Linux, for over a month now. The install is basically the same as a Gentoo installation. The only difference is that instead of using Gentoo’s Portage, you can choose to just use Daniel Robbin’s Funtoo git-based Portage located at Github.
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Free Software Awards - Trophees du Libre 2009
"The “Trophées du Libre” ceremony supports innovative Free software by awarding generous prizes to free software projects..."
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Still Converting Folks To Free Software
"I've been silent for a long time. Life is funny - one minute you're trucking along, advocating Free Software, and the next you're being pulled in 4 different directions at once. Maybe I've been absent from running my site, but I'm still advocating Free Software. Just this past weekend I helped a lady whose previous vendor left her high and dry with her non-free software licenses.
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"WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009) -- An American computer software pioneer, Richard Stallman, will discuss the global free software movement during a public lecture this week at the University of Waterloo..."
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Richard Stallman is visiting Edmonton
"The most important philosopher of our time — as measured by effects on society — will be in Edmonton on February 5th to deliver the 2009 Merv Leitch QC Memorial Lecture..."
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Open Season for Linux Contests
Contests, at their best, can highlight creative thinking and originality. In the Linux community, there seems to be an serious overabundance of both. Four different contests — all starting this January — are doing their best to crowdsource and give out significant prizes to the winners. Vote, participate, or just soak it all in, these contests are great ways to get involved.
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Plug-in architecture on the way for the GCC
"When Richard Stallman began writing Bison in 1983, he was only trying to build the bits of an operating system he would need to write an operating system. But that recursive goal was no stranger than the recursive name he would create for the software he would eventually create: GNU is Not Unix (GNU).
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«... John Sullivan: Thank you for buying the GNU — as a result we have been enjoying listening in to your Microsoft dealings from the FSF office :) ... »
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The Fight Against the DRM
"For those of you media junkies out there, you are probably already familiar with the term Digital Rights Management. For those of you who are less familiar, a DRM is any sort of software that is usually attached to media files in order to limit the use of the media file.
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