"The 2008 Firefox Summit is an invitation-only gathering of some of the most active contributors in the Mozilla community. The purpose is to discuss the future of Firefox..." -- The future of Firefox should be linked to that of Emacs ;)
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The FSF wants you to go stick it to Apple
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"The FSF, in it’s timeless crusade to make the world a more free place by spreading the use of free software, has issued a challenge to Apple. It does not agree with the Apple store selling restricted iPhone apps. Apple’s OSX operating system is chalk full of GNU’s free software, so they have their hand very much stuck in the fly paper.
Read more »The Malaysian Free Software Movement in action
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"...My talk tomorrow is on the Free Software Movement in Malaysia. I would be interested in meeting people who can commit to helping push forward the Malaysian Free Software movement, so do contact me if you are interested." -- BarCamp Malaysia-Bar And Camping, Day 1
* http://www.wirespot.net/2008/07/27/barcamp-malaysia-bar-and-camping-day-1/
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Top Ten mailing list posts in the history of free/open source software
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A few months ago, we looked at Linus Torvalds in his own words, which was surprisingly popular (for a filler ;). So following the same approach (i.e. too busy to write something original today ;), what are the top-ten best mailing list posts in the history of free/open source software?
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Give KDE and Gnome a unified look
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Out of the box, both KDE3 and Gnome look like crap. There, I said it. Default KDE still uses Everaldo’s Crystal SVG icon theme, which dates from 2001. That’s about the time I started using KDE, and I loved it at the time, but these days, icon sets tend to be a little less bright.
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Shuttleworth's view on patents (Microsoft and all)
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Who's afraid of patents? Not Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu Linux and CEO of Canonical. He figures he's 'REALLY' got it covered.
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SourceForge Community Choice Awards winners
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Winners of the SourceForge Community Choice Awards were announced at OSCON today.
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2016: “You’re watching the Linux Channel.”
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What’s Required for Linux to Overtake Apple Mac OS X?
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As this site has noted, Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth at OSCON called for Linux distributions to leapfrog the quality of Apple’s Mac OS X user experience. Here’s how the Linux industry can fulfill that vision.
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OpenID gets the third degree at OSCON
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Is OpenID a panacea, a placebo, or something in between? Opposing viewpoints took turns on center stage Wednesday afternoon at OSCON 2008. The session entitled "A Critical View of OpenID" started off as anything but critical, but once the audience got its turn to raise questions, things got more interesting.
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Google Want to be TeleAtlas
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"Google have launched MapMaker, a kind of faux OpenStreetMap where they own all the data and you’re only allowed to map in certain Freedom Of Speech Zones [...] The terms of use are hilarious - the bottom line seems to be that Google ends up owning excusively the entire aggregate work, but it is your fault if anything goes wrong [...] If you contribute to Google MapMaker, you are contributing to
Read more »Linux Users: Why So Serious?
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Despite coming from a very rich and early history, linux OS consumer market share is less than 1%; and the community more divided than ever. What are we doing wrong?
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Chapters meeting, Sunday 8pm Eastern
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"We will be having an online meeting of all Students for Free Culture chapters this Sunday, July 27, at 8pm EDT [see the fixed time around the world], in our IRC channel #freeculture at irc.freenode.net. If you are a member of a chapter, we want you to attend! Bring your free culture friends along :) ..."
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Would a chic Linux seduce the masses?
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Linux has lived a long life of stability and sturdy usability, but what if the underpinnings of that strategy fell away and the developer community were to welcome an influx of open source designers focused on producing the most pleasant and intuitive interface imaginable.
Read more »Bert Burgemeister, Lisp Hero of the Day
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"Common Lisp Quick Reference is a free booklet with short descriptions of the thousand or so symbols defined in the ANSI standard. It comes with a comprehensive index.
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