Claudio Prado, digital policy coordinator for the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, put it succinctly when he expressed the view that intellectual property law is a 20th-century idea and "most of the blossoming of world civilisation has happened perfectly well without it - The 20th century is a cul-de-sac," he says.
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LaTeX Community 2.0
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"Excactly two years ago - on the 14th of January 2007 - LaTeX Community has gone online. Though nothing more than a simple bulletin board, its growth (about 14,000 posts, 3,000 registered users and 3,000 visits per day) has shown, that LaTeX users all over the world were already waiting for a place to find help and exchange their knowledge.
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Windows 7 - The Sound of Thunder
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Coming at the time of an economy in recession it looks like Microsoft might actually be scared that customers might not spend money on a Windows upgrade. There's no way to go back in time and prevent the damage to Microsoft's credibility done by the Windows Vista release, we'll just have to wait and see what the future actually holds for Windows 7.
Read more »Open Sourcing the Third World: Software as a Subversive Activity, Part 9
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So apparently open source software really is communism. But übercapitalist Bill Gates can't really complain; the Vietnamese government cites a crackdown on illegal copies of Windows as one reason for the switch, and we all know Bill wants you to be assured of that Windows Genuine Advantage, right?
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"I'm Linux" contest open for video entries
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The Linux Foundation (LF) is now accepting 60-second video entries for its "I'm Linux" contest, which spoofs recent Apple and Microsoft commercials. The winner will receive a free trip to Tokyo to participate in the LF's Japan Linux Symposium in October 2009, says the nonprofit group.
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Fedora 11 gets a name
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Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields has named the winner of the Fedora 11 naming sweepstakes...and the winner is: LEONIDAS.
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The Man and the Myth Behind Ubuntu
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The New York Times ran a story today about Ubuntu and its prospects for beating Microsoft. Focusing on Mark Shuttleworth, the South African billionaire who founded the Ubuntu project and leads Canonical, the Times reporter concludes that the idea of Linux on every desktop remains a bit “quixotic,” and suggests that Ubuntu has only come so far thanks to Shuttleworth’s wealth.
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WFTL Bytes! for Jan 13, 2009
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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Tuesday, January 13, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 44. Today we uncover some Vista trash, an ongoing battle between the forces of OO and Go-OO, Shuttleworth and Ubuntu get the New York treatment (Times, that is), Linux goes to CES, Fedora gets a moniker, and Twitter gets bashed.
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The Linux community sucks at times.
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Cue a ton of Linux fanboys scrolling down to the comments box to rant shit about how “we believe in FREEDOM” and “SCREW YOUR IGNORANCE” and “you’re just bitter than you couldn’t properly install Ubuntu on your system” before even reading this entry. Come on, you know some of them do that.
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MySQL 5.1 downloaded a million times
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MySQL 5.1 has already passed its million downloads milestone according to Zack Urlocker, Vice President of Marketing for the open source database.
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Ruby on Emacs (journey from TextMate to Emacs…)
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"Im a GNU/linux fan to the core, so sooner or later this was gonna happen. Ever since i started using TextMate, the fact that it was a non-free ware and i couldn’t hack it kept me uncomfortable [...] I don’t feel too excited about my OS X Leopard anymore and im planning to move back to Ubuntu/Debian [...] Why should anyone move to Emacs ??? "
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Cutting Through the Windows 7 Hype
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I don't understand it. When it comes to Windows, everything either sucks or is the best thing in the world according to the press. There seems to be no intermediate point, despite the fact that that is where most Windows releases would fit. Recently, I have been getting very tired of anything with the words "Windows 7," "killer," and "linux," no matter what order those appear in.
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FOSS DEMonstration Against Novell
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Letters and articles about Novell's participation in FOSDEM 2009
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Break the reboot cycle. Use Linux.
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You may have noticed that I have been quiet for the last couple of days. The reason is I have been working on a windows computer, trying to fix it. Reformatting and reloading was an option but the pain and time taken to reconfigure the thing was prohibitive. Besides I knew what the problem was and I could fix it.
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Linux.com is still stalled
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Linux.com has changed it's formatting, more or less dramatically since the first of the year. Submissions to their Features and NewsVac pages are no longer being offered. The main page now points to a Linux discussion forum (and do we need another Linux discussion forum?). What's going on?
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