Most of my nightmares tend to be mundane nonsense about being late for school. Folks in the open source community have nightmares about open source products becoming closed source properties. That's nightmarish, to be sure, but I have to ask how much of the nightmare is not wholly real.
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Holy Programming
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While looking for some Python codes using Google Code Search (beta), I got bored and remembered an article entitled “F*cking programming”.
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Say Hello to the OpenSAF Foundation
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I was pleased to see the formal announcement yesterday of the OpenSAF Foundation, a new open source project that I've been helping form for the past several months. You can find the the launch press release here, and I've also pasted it in at the end of this blog entry for archival purposes. The Web site for OpenSAF is here.
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Gates: secret admirer of Linux, open source?
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In a speech before the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week, mega-billionaire Bill Gates is calling for a “creative capitalism” in which businesses build and target products for poorer nations.
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plugins for GNU IceCat
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"...As first step we could start offering at least a gnash .xpi file for GNU/Linux-386. Is somebody interested to contribute on this? "
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SELF Documentary Contest
http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk –
"The aim of this contest is to strengthen the SELF Platform, to centralise, transmit and enlarge the available knowledge on Free Software and Open Standards and to raise awareness and contribute to the building of critical mass for the use of Free Software and Open Standards..."
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Got Questions for Stallman?
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"Richard Stallman, who founded the Free Software Foundation, built the GNU Project, and created the GPL, is coming to Santa Clara. He’ll be lecturing on January 31, 2008 at 11:45am in Benson Center at the Santa Clara University campus..."
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Mozilla says that flaw could lead to data leak
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Mozilla is working to fix a browser flaw that could give attackers unauthorized access to data on a victim's machine.
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OLPC looks ahead with optimism
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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has been in the news a lot in recent months. Reports last fall that Uruguay purchased 100,000 XO laptops and soon US consumers could do the same via a special campaign soon gave way to news items about a patent lawsuit and Intel's abrupt departure from OLPC's board.
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Amarok Insider - Issue 11
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Welcome to the first issue of AWN hosted on the official Amarok website. This makes it a bit more official, so I had to stop screwing around and at least drop the word "Weekly" from the name. So here it is, the Amarok Weekly Newsletter under its new name: Amarok Insider. Not weekly anymore :).
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The state of Linux according to Google
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This is a look at the state of Linux through the eyes of Google Trends, Google’s highly useful search trend analyzer.
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Open source business management gets a boost
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Open source professional services automation software, allocPSA, has had a new version release that improves usability and information management.
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Richard Gabriel on Lisp, Interview on SE Radio
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"In this Episode we're talking with Dick Gabriel on Lisp. We started by looking at artificial intelligence as the historic context of Lisp, the goals AI tried to reach, and how Lisp was supposed to help reach those..."
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Ten years of Mozilla
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With a sliding market share, Netscape decided to focus on its enterprise oriented products and gave away the browser but most importantly allow volunteers to work on the product. Mozilla was nothing but Netscape’s user agent (the name a browser uses to contact the web server), a reminder of the first Netscape code name.
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Some reflections on Linux and its community
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Over the past weekend, I spent most of my time playing around with OpenSUSE and Ubuntu in an attempt to reintroduce myself into the wide world of Linux.
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