"Pat has become a well known online author in the Ruby community with frequent book reviews, interviews and post on various useful topics. When he asked the community who we would like to see interviewed, I turned the tables on him..."
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The Programming Language with the Happiest Users
"Which languages make programmers the happiest? It’s clear that some languages are more popular than others, and many of us debate long and hard over the relative merits of Python vs Ruby, C vs Java or Lisp vs everything else. But what’s the general consensus? ..."
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Software patents are dangerous
"After a quite interesting month, in which I attended two very interesting lectures (Carlos Guerreiro and Richard Stallman lectures) and a very good fortnight in London I wasn’t sure what to talk about in this post. However, I liked so much an example that Richard Stallman told us talking about software patents that I needed to say some words..."
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Momentum building around first Central American Free Software Gathering
The first steps are being taken in Central America to network free software groups in the region and develop collaborative relationships with each other. The first Central America Free Software Gathering (ECSL) is being organized for sometime in June in Nicaragua. The goal of the event is to:
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UbuntuOne in Beta. Wait, WTF ?
Wait… WTF ?! I never heard about it, and Google just threw around a bunch of entries when asked.
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Gnu tools and Linux Kernel workshop- Day2
"After a good start on Saturday, the second day of the session continued with the same momentum... We started off with the Free Software Philosophy by an inspiring FSMK volunteer....
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Rackspace Hosts a GNU/Linux Legend
"On April 20th, we hosted a very special guest from the Free Software Foundation and GNU/Linux software community. Our special guest was, none other than Richard Stallman, author of the GPL free software license and the bulk of the GNU+Linux operating system..."
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Software Piracy (2/1/1985)
Meet teenage software pirates, computer lawyers and the battle over software ownership.
Guests: Mark Pump, Alpha Logic; Smith McKeithen, Activision; Frankie Mouse, Hacker; Neil Smith, Software Publish Assoc; John Draper (Captain Crunch); Gary Kildall, DRI
Products/Demos: Locksmith, Cap'n Software, Easy Writer, MacWare
This movie is part of the collection: Computer Chronicles
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"...In his anniversary message to the gnewsense-users mailing list, project co-founder Paul O’Malley had a look at both the past and the future of the distribution. As for the future, the message broke news that the original project leaders Brian Brazil and Paul think they have taken the project as far as they think they can, and plan to hand over maintenance to other community members..."
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“Linux Action Show” Censor Comments They Disagree with...
OKAY, so we wrote a quick post to point out that Bryan and Co. are very hostile towards GNU. And no, it wasn't trolling and it was not provocative; it was actually pretty polite. The convictions of these guys have been apparent to their audience for quite some time and the latest burst that led to bad press was merely a last straw...
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10 Ways to Contribute to GNU
"If you ever wanted to be a part of GNU project and dreamt that you could somehow make some contribution to GNU project that has helped so many of free software community by collaborating with Linux, here are some ways to do so..."
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Gitorious: Hosting Free Software projects that use Git on GNU systems
"...Gitorious now is a project maintained by Shortcut AS, which I co-founded. Shortcut AS now officially supports and develops Gitorious in cooperation with contributors outside Shortcut. Gitorious is, and will continue to be, 100% free software, licensed under the Affero GPL..."
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GNU Hackers Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-15 November 2009
"The dates for the next GNU Hackers Meeting are 11-15 November 2009 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The meeting will be held jointly with the FSCONS free software conference 14-15 Nov..."
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Why you should refer to version of Ubuntu by their code name online
A while ago a movement was started to convince people to refer to version of Ubuntu by their release name, not the code name. The logic is simple. The version name refers to the year and month that it was released, and paints a better picture of which version you are refering to.
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Lisp outside the Box
"I'm writing a book about Lisp and O'Reilly is going to publish it. The aim is to show people who suspected that Lisp was dead because it couldn't look outside the box, along with those who hoped it could but didn't know how, that the going isn't all that hard..."
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