At LinuxTag 2010, the KDE community announced the "Join the Game" campaign to support KDE e.V.'s Supporting Membership Program. The first new member was Georg Greve, founder of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). We caught up with him for a 'short' interview that turned into a two hour conversation about life, the universe and everything. The pertinent bits are excerpted below.
Read more »Open Source Needs To Have An Unfair Advantage To Succeed
Mickos argues that "for an open source company to become commercially successful, it needs to have an unfair advantage against its competition".
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New Fedora Project Leader appointed
Red Hat has hired Fedora contributor Jared Smith to appoint him as Fedora Project Leader
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Newspaper Tries Open Source For A Day
“The Saratogian” used a mixture of Scribus, Google Docs to put out their newspaper on Independence Day as a gesture of support for the Free Software movement.
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only in the minds of fanbois ...
A lot has changed over the past decade. But one thing that hasn’t are the worn out sets of beliefs, ideologies and arguments spouted by hardcore fanbois. Let’s take a quick look.
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Why Do Open Source Advocates Attack Each Other?
Maybe it's a trend, or maybe I just noticed because I was looking, but following my article last week about the strange parallels between Life of Brian and the critics of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement, there have been a number of similar articles.
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Moving to mandriva?!
Never thought I would be writing this, but I am actually considering moving my Linux boxes (based mainly in OpenSuSE and Fedoras) to Mandriva!
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Is HP Rude To Gnu/Linux Users?
HP has introduced its first all-in-one PC as part of the enterprise-class HP Compaq 6000 Pro family. It is unfortunate that HP doesn't offer Gnu/Linux on these machines.
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Open Clip Art Library Launches Logo Design Contest
From now, until the submission deadline of 11:59p on July 9th, The Open Clip Art Library will be accepting user-created and remixed entries, as a part of the Free Culture Research Conference Logo Design Contest.
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Why did I choose to use Ubuntu
Currently I prefer to use Ubuntu, after I felt the ability to provide Ubuntu Graphical on my laptop, especially Ubuntu 10.04. There are a few that made me feel at home using and choosing Ubuntu Linux operating system, which are as follows:
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Linux Foundation Announces Linux.com Store T-shirt Design Winner
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the winning design in its Linux.com Store T-shirt Design Contest, "The People's Product." The design won by a large margin with 57 percent (4,501) of all votes cast, with the other five finalists sharing 43 percent of the vote among them.
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Researcher Builds Mock Botnet Of 'Twilight'-Loving Android Users
A word of caution to any Android users who downloaded an app over the past weekend promising pictures of the next Twilight film: Next time, your obsession with vampires might just turn your phone into a zombie.
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Helping others get Fedora
When I find an outstanding distro, such as Fedora, I prefer to buy the media from an on-line vendor as a way of showing my support. Most of the time the money goes directly to the vendor, however, I happened upon the Sponsored Media Program today and found a vendor who participates in this program.
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Linux just works? Not for everyone!
You read about it everywhere on forums, mailing lists and in just about every Linux verses windows flame war. Linux just works is claimed. Then there is the counter claim that Linux didn't do this or that had no drivers. So what is the story here? Does Linux just work or not?
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Steve Jobs's Touch Is What Ubuntu's Missing: Rich Jaroslovsky
If you're put off by Steve Jobs's control-freakdom and Microsoft's long history of buggy bloatware, you might want to spend some time with Dell Inc.'s line of laptops running Ubuntu...
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