"Every few months you see a thread on the emacs news groups polling to see the age or occupation of the users. Recently someone sent out a link on gnu.emacs.help to a site called BuddyMapping with a map for Emacs Users..."
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Red Hat exec: Open Source is mature, disruptive and innovative
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Craig Nielsen was one of eight speakers at the WA open source symposium earlier this month. He talks about where the industry stands and where it is rapidly heading.
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10 flaws in Ubuntu 7.10
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So I have been running Ubuntu 7.10 on one of my desktops for a while now, and I have to say that generally speaking I’m satisfied with what it has to offer. But with that said I have experienced a couple of minor things that are missing or that I feel don’t work as I want.
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Forbes columnist Dan Lyons says he really likes Linux, no matter what anyone else says (video)
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During a session at the 2007 Online News Association conference in Toronto, Canada, I had a chance to point my video camera at Forbes columnist (and Fake Steve Jobs blogger) Dan Lyons.
Read more »GPLv3, bug fixes, and complexity
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"After an interesting free software licensing event in Helsinki yesterday, I got thinking about licence complexity. At the conference, people had two types of questions (a) Why didn't GPLv3 additionally solve X problem? and (b) Why is it so long? ..."
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Free Software Advocate Richard Stallman at Marlboro
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"Marlboro, VT - Acclaimed software freedom activist Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) will discuss “Copyright VS. Community” in Marlboro College’s Ragle Hall on Thursday, April 26 at 7 p.m."
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John Philips - Open Font Library - Full Interview
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"...It is focused on what the free and open software/content communities desire, so the entire operation is transparent and open. There is the SIL Open Font License and CC Public Domain declaration in place to help free fonts for use, re-use and remix. Also, the software is completely free software and using Creative Commons’ open source project, ccHost..."
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Here's an idea... (GNU/Linux demo disks for PC retailers)
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Writing the previous article ("The real reasons why Linux is “behind” Windows on the desktop") sparked off various thoughts in my head, one of which was “what could be done to get consumers to start realising that there is an alternative to Windows on a PC or a laptop?”.
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red-vs-green-penguins-geckos-and-duct-tape
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I have come up with the analogy and strategy of Red vs. Green as a way of helping partners, customers and the casual passerby understand that depending on which Novell/SUSE products they have, they will likely benefit most from a particular set of products and growth options.
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Ahhh! What did they do to my Gimp?
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I've just installed Mandriva One 2008 on my kid's computer. Ordinarily, I'd be reviewing that first. But the first thing I do with a distro review is pop open Gimp to take screenshots. And Mandriva's using the release candidate Gimp 2.4. And I opened it and with a tortured shriek that sent birds flying from every tree on the block, uttered the line which makes the title of this post.
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Goals For SeaMonkey 2 - My View
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"...We'll probably do an Alpha when we're far enough on all the tasks that we can encourage testing by a broad audience, and we'll go into beta when have the feature set completed and only stabilizing and cleanup work is left.
Read more »gNewSense | HowToHelp
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gNewSense is a GNU/Linux project that aims to take all of the binary blobs and non-Free software out of Ubuntu and Debian to make a 100% Free Software distribution.
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Interview with Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation
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"Wikinews reporters interviewed Sue Gardner, an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, the project that runs Wikipedia and several other projects, including Wikinews..."
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Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
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To sum up this comparison: "My Ubuntu boxes, I love." and on Vista: "...it's not been a good experience... it behaves like XP behaves on a 256MB computer, only it's running in 2GB. Everything is just... slow. "
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The biggest hindrance to OpenOffice dominance is Sun itself
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One of the things that bothers me profusely about OpenOffice is Sun’s maniacal infatuation with controlling every square inch of OpenOffice, including all the copyrights to the code within it. That in turn has left some contributors a bit on the perturbed side, if not downright screaming mad.
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