The game is Luguru, from the humble indie bundle. Apple's not responding to copyright owner's emails.
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Windows Phone 7 and Xbox ban GPL software
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Recently word started getting around that the terms for getting apps on Windows Phone 7, and indie games on the Xbox, have changed. Now, programs submitted to Microsoft cannot have any code licensed under a copyleft license. Even if a single file is licensed under a weaker copyleft license like the LGPL, Microsoft will apparently reject it.
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Adobe Logic (of Forced Upgrade Cycle)
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This, as we've argued, is not a defect of the Adobe business model, it is the business model. The fact that Adobe won’t maintain compatibility across versions for such basic functionality seems hugely anti-consumer, but obviously very good business.
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The Myth of Openness
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In a world of technology openness is often treated as an imperative, something that has to be preserved or promoted as something inherently good. I’ve been a long time believer in this idea myself, but as I watch the evolution of technology I’m beginning to question its value and underpinnings. What exactly is it that makes openness worthy of a pedestal it’s often being put on?
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Attachmate lays off Mono employees
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Today Attachmate laid off an unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that were working on the open source Mono project.
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Linux Professional Institute Joins ITCC Web-based Credential
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The LPI gets into very bad company and heads off to play in a proprietary corporate playground.
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SUSE & Patent FUD: Who Do We Boycott Now?
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Now that Microsoft and SUSE have announced they plan to continue sleeping together, I wonder if the folks at Techrights are rethinking their plans to pull the plug on Boycott Novell?
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The FOSS fakery problem
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When someone searches for OpenOffice, Firefox, VLC or any other popular open source package on the internet, are they necessarily going to get the genuine article?
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Microsoft: Cloud need only be open surface, not open source
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Gianugo Rabellino gives a refresher course into the cloudy status of current Microsoft proprietary reasoning: just give us the dough!
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Progress
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In true open source fashion, the community debates the most important issue of the day
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I for one, think we should remove the kernel version number from dmesg output. I mean, it's changing all the time anyways.
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Microsoft signs 'legal covenant' with Chinese Linux vendor
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Microsoft demonstrates how much times have changed by reprising its 'Novell' type of caper in China.
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Linux Licensing in Conflict with Secure Boot Support
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In other words, making Linux boot loaders work with secure boot would require breaking their licensing requirements, and arguably the spirit of Free Open Source Software as well.
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Government puts faith in Trustworthy Computing (thereby declaring war against Earth)
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[Trusted Computing, of which secure boot is a component, hurts the environment and inhabitants of earth because it denies old computers the possibility of installing GNU/Linux and hastens their fate as e-wastes.] The UK government will emphasise the pivotal role of trusted computing in its upcoming cyber security strategy [thereby declaring war against earth].
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DRM-Free 2011 Holiday Buying Guide
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What to buy and what to avoid for a truly DRM-Free Christmas. Add your own suggestions to the list.
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Apple partners with patent troll Digitude Innovations — and wow, what a deal
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In a clever deal that effectively gives Apple immunity from attack by the troll, Apple agreed to some cross-licensing deals that gave Digitude the ammunition for a heavy attack against Apple’s rivals.
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