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New Zealand to make software unpatentable

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New Zealand is set to become one of the first countries to make software unpatentable after its Minister for Justice, Hon Simon Power, announced modifications to the Patents Bill.

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How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025)

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A manual about how to access the Internet in the future (satire).

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Linux for professional photography

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This is a guest post by professional photographer Scott Rowed, describing his experience in switching from Windows to Linux.

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PDF Manipulations And Conversions From Linux Command Prompt

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If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not require Acrobat, and it runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris.

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First Look at The Up and Coming GIMP 2.8 New Features.

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GIMP is a great image editor but the lack of a single interface window and various other features, make it not ideal to take on Adobe Photoshop as a viable alternative.

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Richard Stallman on .NET, Mono and DotGNU

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RMS: You shouldn't write software to use .NET. No exceptions.
The basic point is that Microsoft has patents over features in .NET, and its patent promise regarding free software implementations of those is inadequate. It may someday attack the free implementations of these features.

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Running Linux on new OpenRisc simulator or1ksim 0.4.0

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How to install and run the new OpenRisc simulator or1ksim 0.4.0, and emulate a running Linux kernel.

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The Internet Responds to ASCAP's Deceptive Claims

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In recent years, they've demanded fees from the Girl Scouts Of America for singing songs around a campfire, as well as from consumers for using unauthorized ring-tones in their cell-phones.

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RIAA Accounting — How Labels Avoid Paying Musicians

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"Last week, we discussed Techdirt's tale of 'Hollywood Accounting,' which showed how movies like Harry Potter still officially 'lose' money with some simple accounting tricks. This week Techdirt is taking on RIAA accounting and demonstrating why most musicians — even multi-platinum recording stars — may never see a dime from their album sales."

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MySQL founder seeks to challenge Oracle's acquisition of Sun

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At the European Court in Luxembourg, Monty Widenius has brought proceedings against the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems

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RedshiftGUI Protects Your Eyes When Working At Night [Linux, Windows]

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At first it was F.lux. Then came Redshift (inspired by F.lux) which also got a GTK version but only for switching it on/off. And now, a Redshift fork called RedshiftGUI finally brings a GUI for customizing everything.

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Libre Graphics Magazine #0

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The fifth annual Libre Graphics Meeting 2010, was held in Brussels earlier this year. Developers and users of Free, Libre and Open Source graphics software gathered to discuss the wonderful topic: – “Cutting edge graphics software meets free culture” Libre Graphics Magazine #0 was launched. Finally I have my mouse on a copy.

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Mozilla: 2 billion Firefox add-ons downloaded

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Mozilla announced today that Firefox users have downloaded more than two billion browser add-ons. To mark the occasion, Mozilla has created a special list of the top 25 add-ons.

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Open Core and OSI

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Simon Phipps is correct: Open Core is Bad for You, the "you" here being you and me, end users: The open core model exploits open source and is a game on software freedom. The fact the game is played does not invalidate software freedom, but it suggests we need to revisit definitions and make the game harder to play.

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Top 10 Totally Amazing Wallpapers Made Using Inkscape

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Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator and CorelDraw, using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. This wallpaper collection is a pictorial illustration on what Inkscape can do in terms of creating art that stands out.

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Anybody up to writing good directory software?

Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David Jonathan

From the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).

Is better education the key to finding better software?

Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward Russel

About Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.

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