Get a chance to meet the man in charge of managing government's free and open source software (FOSS) migration at this month's Open Tuesday event in Joburg. Arno Webb will talk on the opportunities that this migration will open up for those involved in open source.
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How Microsoft Dealt with GPLv3
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"The news of Silverlight 1.0 being released allows some insight in the way that Microsoft will work with GPLv3...In simple terms, Microsoft will not work with GPLv3. That is the line that they have drawn, and their rhetoric and actions now show this to be so..."
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Licensing Issues Could Hinder Open Source Adoption
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"Could enterprises' rapid adoption of Linux and open source software mask a hidden challenge for IT managers?...If you believe the latest research from Westport, Conn.-based Saugatuck Technology Inc., the answer could be yes; the substantial growth of open source software over the past few years now presents a double-edged sword, the firm said in a recent report..."
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OGG is for metadata too
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"OGG is a media container format. But it is also supposed to contain metadata; information describing the media it contains. But there is no standard at all for including metadata in OGG containers. I want to change that..."
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Creating interactive forms with OpenOfice.org Writer
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With OpenOffice.org Writer you can create any kind of form from simple questionnaires to sophisticated interactive tests. Here's how to create a simple quiz using the form tools, and how to add interactivity to it with a couple of macros.
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CrossWire Bible Society Offers Free/Libre Bible Software Anyone Can Use
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Some Bible study programs are gratis, but not libre. Others cost $30, right on up to hundreds of dollars - and that's just for the base modules. Worse, most of these programs can only run on one or two operating systems.
Read more »Komodo Spawns New Open Source IDE Project
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"Development tools vendor ActiveState is opening up parts of its Komodo IDE in a new effort called Open Komodo..."
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Getting Inside Google's gPhone
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The search giant's mobile offensive, like the iPhone, may force new cracks in the way the wireless industry operates. (More speculation on the gphone - enough is never enough!)
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Chrooted SSH/SFTP Tutorial (Debian Etch)
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This tutorial describes two ways how to give users chrooted SSH access. With this setup, you can give your users shell access without having to fear that they can see your whole system.
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Betting the business on open source
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iPod-compatible stereo sound system vendor mStation announced yesterday that it is to acquire Mophie, which designs and creates iPod-compatible accessories such as skins, belt clips and arm bands. What does this have to do with open source?
Read more »SCALE announces second annual Health Care Conference
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The Southern California Linux Expo is proud to announce the second annual Demonstrating Open-Source Health Care Solutions (DOHCS). The event will be held on February 8, 2008 in Los Angeles, California in conjunction with the Sixth Annual Southern California Linux Expo.
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JavaScript Date Object Methods
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"This is the second half of a two part discussion of the javascript date object. The first half discusses creating, formatting, extending and converting the date object. This section focuses solely on the methods of the javascript Date oject. In the prior section we created a working and accurate date object.
Read more »Fx 3: Downloading Across Sessions Coming
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"The upcoming Fx 3 M8 (Milestone) release due out later this month will allow users to not only pause and resume downloads, but do so across sessions..."
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Automatix Backlash: Why the Hate?
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In order for Automatix to be as hated as it has become by a select few, we need to first examine the reasons why the application is allegedly being targeted with such harsh words.
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Microsoft springs 'Flash killer' with Linux flourish
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Multimedia browser plug-in Silverlight targets Adobe, aims at bringing animation, video and other rich media to Web-based applications.
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