After more than 20 players already signed up to participate, we are issuing the final call for players on all platforms, be it Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS or BSD, to join us as we commence with the first Freedomware Gaming Festival!
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OLF 2007 Photos
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An Open Letter to Palm
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It's time to save the Palm OS. Set it free by introducing it to the world of open-source development.
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SourceKibitzer benchmarks open source Java projects and developers
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Ever wondered how much your contribution was worth to a project? If you are a Java developer helping out one of the hundreds of open source Java projects, head over to SourceKibitzer. It's a social network of Java developers that provides various metrics for open source Java projects.
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Richard Dice talks about changes and projects at the Perl Foundation
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"I talked today with Richard Dice, the newly-elected president of the Perl Foundation, about the recent changes in TPF, and what TPF has been working on lately. If you've asked "What does TPF do? Why should I support it?", this interview should help answer that."
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The Real Value of Ohio (GNU)LinuxFest
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Saturday night, as I was leaving the Ohio LinuxFest after party, One of the organizers shared with me her aphrensions about the value of the event, and how the community resoundingly put those apprehensions to rest.
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Ease of use: But for who?
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Over the weekend I was writing an article for TechRepublic about two alternative Linux word processors (Abiword and KWord.) As I was writing this article, I discovered something that might lend a hand to not only the developers of those tools but to Linux developers in general. This discovery is simply a matter of target audience.
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KompoZer: Recomposing Nvu
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"Why call it «KompoZer» instead of «Nvu»? Because «Nvu and the Nvu logo are trademarks of Linspire Inc.» As Linspire stopped the development of Nvu, there is no legal way to correct any bug in Nvu.
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2007 Ohio LinuxFest: The Penguin Colony Gathers Again!
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Whew! What a weekend it was at the Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus, Ohio! Between the free (but not Free) beer, having to choose between apparently popular sessions, and the wide variety of booths, the biggest problem was choosing which fun to have.
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The "Paradox of Choice" in the F/OSS World
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Today my co-worker Allison repeated something I said a couple of years ago. “I bet these people paralyzed by choice starve to death trying to buy breakfast cereal.”
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What's So Precious About Bad Software?
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Sure, we are drowned in tides of twaddle about precious IP, Trade Sekkrits, Sooper Original Algorithms that must not be exposed to eyes of mere mortals, and all manner of silly excuses. But that's all a smokescreen to cover up the real reason: to hide code of such poor quality that even PHBs know to be embarrassed. Exhibit A: Windows itself.
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openSUSE is Looking for a Chief Linux Evangelist
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To strengthen the openSUSE project we’re looking for an enthusiastic Chief Evangelist to: promote and spread the adoption of openSUSE; be a public face for the project on conferences and events; act as voice of the community back to Novell’s leadership team; develop and nurture the openSUSE communities; pro actively drive openSUSE marketing;
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The real heart of the GPLv3 rift
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[The free software movement] is appearing more like a group of religious extremists, and less like programmers intent on creating free replacements for proprietary programs. The FSF's focus is increasingly to protest, boycott, censure, and exclude all things it does not find morally agreeable.
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Killing Microsoft's Clippy with open source
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Free software gives you the freedom that, even if you are a one-man shop, you can have it fixed if it is annoying you enough. The example I like to give is "Clippy" — remember? — that whipping boy of journalists. You couldn't turn it off and it came on and you had to talk to it before you came on.
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Linux distro for women? Thanks, but no thanks
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The idea is floating around again: Let's make a special Linux distribution for women! We're smarter than that, aren't we? I say, let's spare ourselves and the world yet another pointless and less-than-useful version of Linux.
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