Today, IBM took the pragmatic decision to end hostilities over Apache Harmony and move on. This is clearly a good choice for IBM, and probably the best we could hope for Java. It does mean that Apache Harmony is effectively dead.
But frankly, Sun, now Oracle, have got away with murder.
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A group of OpenOffice.org developers has announced the creation of an independent foundation - called the Document Foundation - to guide the further development of the office suite, which is provisionally named LibreOffice. At the heart of this effort is longtime OpenOffice.org developer Michael Meeks.
Read more »The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today issued a warning to consumers over Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 Phone Series. The software release is backed by a reported 400 to 500 million dollar marketing campaign that aims to distract consumers from its history of abusive behavior, and recent actions as a patent troll: attacking free software based phones like Android.
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"We see it all the time, someone straying from one distribution or another because you "have to use the command-line". I've even heard that in person, I've heard it too many times. So, I looked around to see what may be causing this impression, and sure enough it didn't take long to fine.
Read more »«Funtoo is a free operating system, based on Gentoo, and initiated in 2008 by Daniel Robbins in a collaborative effort with Gentoo community [...] Funtoo can be defined as a user-focused distribution, with a bazaar-style development model, where each hacker can make a difference. Hackers can have fun too due to the free software nature of the project.
Read more »« Hi All, Just wanted to announce the Funtoo Forums, which are now available for use at http://forums.funtoo.org. Please create an account and enjoy them. I hope that they will become a great resource for Funtoo users...»
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Leveraging existing distribution channels to streamline supply, is an age old business methodology. But can a downstream software distribution channel be used for upstream hardware collection? I don't see why not.
Read more »Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy, non-profit organization, which provides Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects with fiscal sponsorship, asset stewardship, license enforcement and license compliance services, announced the appointment of Bradley M. Kuhn as its full-time Executive Director.
Read more »The Internet, October 6, 2010 -- One full week has gone by since the announcement of The Document Foundation, and we would like to share some numbers with the people who have decided to follow us since the first day. The beta of LibreOffice has been downloaded over 80.000 times.
Read more »Our newest upgrade to Sourcefabric’s Campsite, a multilingual content management system for news websites, allows multiple template upload and improves multilingual template set for websites.
Read more »On this day, 25 years ago, Richard Stallman created the Free Software Foundation. He had been the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Read more »In this edition we discuss the misleading term "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" (FRAND), we explain what we are doing about centralised computer systems and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and update you on our current campaign to end non-free software commercials by public institutions.
Read more »«...The objective of the workshop is to introduce Free Software philosophy to the students and also give a brief knowledge regarding various programming languages, tools with a hands on lab experience...»
Read more »JPEG is a very old lossy image format. By today’s standards, it’s awful compression-wise: practically every video format since the days of MPEG-2 has been able to tie or beat JPEG at its own game. The reasons people haven’t switched to something more modern practically always boil down to a simple one -- it’s just not worth the hassle.
Read more »«...RMS visit of our capital has been discussed on this list before, and I'm sure those of you who want to attent the public lecture next week, have already registered etc. The reason for my writing, however, is not to remind people of this, but to bring to your attention the rather unique opportunity to participate in a half-day workshop given by the man himself on our favorite text editor.
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