A few words about the flamewar which involves Fedora people (for the most part) telling off Canonical for not giving much to GNOME
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Ubuntu Empire Strikes Back
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The old "Ubuntu doesn't contribute back" argument cropped up again when Dave Neary released a report of the talk he gave at GUADEC on the contributions made to the GNOME desktop environment. A firestorm of debate ensued and Shuttleworth was accused of name calling and guilt to try to win the argument.
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Ubuntu, the Bad Selfish Linux
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In my grumpier moments their relentlessly positive, cult-like Kumbaya-or-else approach makes me want to turn the hose on them. But I don't remember them attacking anyone else the way they've been attacked.
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The Ubuntu-GNOME Debate Carries On
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Links to some of the latest takes on Canonical's participation in GNOME
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Shuttleworth Apologizes for Sexist Comments at LinuxCon
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Mark Shuttleworth has apologised “unreservedly to all offended” for his “poor choice of language” during LinuxCon 2009 during which a comment made by the Ubuntu founder was deemed to be sexist by many members of the Linux community.
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A Linux for everyone (and everything)!
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What if a distribution of Linux was developed that included everything people needed to run standard Linux applications as well as everything they would need to run Windows applications…even games!
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Why the Desktop Gets No Respect, and Should
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Because of this new idea of an app phone and the app-oriented iPad, we have lost sight of the power of the desktop.
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Why I prefer the Linux desktop for software development
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I’ve been a full time Linux user for the past 6 years. In this post I’ll try to explain why I prefer the Linux desktop for doing all my software development work.
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2010 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming - Montréal, Québec, Canada - August 21-22, 2010
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"The 2010 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming provides a forum for discussing experience with and future development of the Scheme programming language. The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, implementation, theory, and application of Scheme. We encourage everyone interested in Scheme to participate..."
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Open source: A hardy few do all the work
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A census of open source developers has provided a sharp reminder of the necessity of commercially viable open source companies, and also how important it is that commercially viable open source companies employ good people to write open source. This probably isn't news to Reg readers, for whom it might be bleeding obvious - perhaps even tautological.
Read more »Flattr: A Social Micropayment Platform for Financing Free Works
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People have been talking about "micropayments" since the early days of the world-wide-web, so I'm always skeptical of micropayment systems. Flattr is an interesting variation on the idea though.
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If Linux is not for Everyone, Neither is Windows
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When contrasting Linux and Windows, one frequently hears the fallacy that Linux is not an OS anyone can use. Read this reaction about it. That recurrent argument is based on several misconceptions that I would like to discuss.
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Ubuntu vs. Red Hat: Who really contributes the most to Linux
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Last week, Greg DeKoenigsberg, a former Red Hat developer on the Fedora community Linux project and now CTO of The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), ignited a firestorm by showing that, when it comes to code, Red Hat does far more for open-source projects...
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Joomla/Moodle/openSIS – Perfect match for education?
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It is crunch time to choose a CMS, LMS, and SIS for an international school in Vietnam. Will open source prevail?
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Red Hat Leads GNOME Contributions
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In the GNOME Census conducted by Neary Consulting, the firm found that Red Hat lead in company contributions boasting 16.3 percent of company project contributions. Red Hat was trailed by Novell, Collabora, Intel, and Fluendo. IBM didn't crack the top 20 and Canonical boasted a meager 1.03 percent of contributions.
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