The last few years have witnessed an increasing focus on creating inexpensive, affordable computers for users in the developing world.
Read more »Free software campaigners stonewalled at BBC
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) mounted its protests against "corruption" of the BBC by Microsoft in London and Manchester this morning.
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U.K. Linux users lose to U.S. and Europe
U.K. users are used to paying over the odds for PCs compared to their U.S. counterparts, but when it comes to Linux, it seems that they come off worse compared to the rest of Europe too.
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Interview with Jeff Starkweather, Chris Buechler and Scott Ullrich
Centipede Networks has recently entered a partnership with BSD Perimeter to offer commercial support for two important free software projects, pfSense and m0n0wall. I had a chance to talk to Jeff Starkweather (CEO of Centipede Networks), Chris Buechler (BSD Perimiter’s CTO) and Scott Ullrich (Chief Architect at BSD Perimiter).
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Ubuntu tries to go LoCo in all 50 states
The Ubuntu community is seeking to get approved Local Community (LoCo) teams in all 50 states in the US by the end of this year, and it's making impressive progress.
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Redmond On The Ropes
The idea of Microsoft profiting from your work and code makes me feel like I have something slimy and stinking all over me. It's not enough for them to lie and steal their way partially to the top...they have turned our own philosophies and licenses upon us and used them to their benefit.
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Mark Shuttleworth » Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?
It’s too early to say for certain, but there are very encouraging signs that the world’s standards bodies will vote in favour of a single unified ISO (”International Standards Organisation”) document format standard. There is already one document format standard - ODF, and currently the ISO is considering a proposal to bless an alternative, Microsoft’s OpenXML, as another standard.
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Compiz Fusion, our first release. 0.5.2
Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the Compiz community plugin set “Compiz Extras” and the window manager core independent parts of the “Beryl” project. Both Compiz Extras and Beryl have left important marks on in how we look at Window management, and with the merge, you no longer have to choose which one to use.
Read more »A look at the Mozilla-based One Laptop per Child web browser
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project is in the final steps to finally ship the first laptops to poor children living in poor countries.
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Microsoft Must Earn Respect of FOSS Community
Can you believe it? Given Microsoft's history of antagonism, It's hard to believe anyone - let alone the Linux Foundation - would call on the FOSS community to respect Microsoft. No, if Microsoft wants respect, they should get it the 'old-fashioned' way - by earning it.
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Will Google Be Destroyed By Open Source Search Engines?
Could open source kill the golden egg that laid Google? If Wikia has its way, it just might.
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Aiken SC High School Deploying Moodle
Midland Valley High School, in Aiken, SC, received a grant allowing it to deploy Moodle and offer students laptops.
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Darl McBride, where are you?
Nearly 54 months ago, when the SCO Group launched its legal action against IBM, there were a number of cheerleaders - both SCO personnel and outsiders - who contributed a great deal to the debate.
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Children's Reviews of OLPC XO Technology
While we can endlessly debate One Laptop Per Child on OLPC News, what really matters will be the opinions and adoption of XO technology by children. And recently children have been expressing their views on the matter.
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Linspire executives exodus?
According to multiple sources close to Linux distributor Linspire, former CEO Kevin Carmony was not the only executive to leave Linspire at the end of July.
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