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5 Ways Identi.ca is Better Than Twitter

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Twitter popularized micro-blogging, indeed, but it isn't fair to say they started it. There are many micro-blogging services, like Identi.ca. I like Identi.ca's focus on software...

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Google Engineer Calls Upon The Open Source Community for VP8 Codec Optimization

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Google engineer John Koleszar asked the open source community for help optimizing the VP8 codec for the WebM project, Google's open source project for watching video online. In soliciting help, Koleszar gave a sort of State of the Codec Address regarding VP8, it's functionality and the headway he and his fellow programmers have made since the WebM announcement at Google I/O 2010.

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European IT Chief Slams Proprietary Software

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Neelie Kroes is no lightweight when it comes to open v. closed software. She spent six years as Europe's head trust-buster, and in that time, collected billions from proprietary software makers who sought to corner the market with their closed-source wares. When she spoke, big software — and everybody else — listened. In February, Ms.

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The kernel column by Jon Masters #88

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Last month Linus Torvalds released the final 2.6.34 kernel, following a bumpy few weeks that saw a major virtual memory (the subsystem responsible for memory management in-kernel) glitch, the usual round of regressions, and a power outage that knocked vger.kernel.org…

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Mono is a disease. Why spread it?

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Mono, Glandular fever or its proper name, Mononucleosis is a very infectious disease which many people suffer through in their childhood. It usually has a stigma attached to it and is used in a slang form for ridicule or alienation. Related by the shortened name to this biological virus is the Mono project for Linux.

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FSF calls for ACTA fight

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A SECRET TREATY that will see the governments of the world hand over control to the music and film industries is being challenged by open sourcerors.

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Red Hat Bulls In Charge

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Shares of Red Hat, Inc. booked a new 52 week high today by trading above $32.19, traders are definitely monitoring Red Hat's price action to see if this move attracts further buying into the stock.

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Hobbyist kit turns BeagleBoard into a tablet

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Open source electronics firm Liquidware has released a kit for attaching a 4.4-inch Liquidware BeagleTouch OLED touchscreen to a BeagleBoard to construct a Linux-based, tablet device. The Beagle Embedded Starter Kit also incorporates a BeagleJuice battery module and a 4GB SD card.

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Best and Free Programming Ebooks with Open Source Licenses

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Today in WebDesignish we are presenting very useful and recommended list of programming Ebooks with open source licenses, like Creative Commons, GPL, etc. The books can be about a particular programming language or about computers in general.

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Neelie Kroes (EU Commissioner): 'Openness at the heart of the EU Digital Agenda'

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Exactly two years ago I spoke about interoperability and standards here in Brussels. Here is a brief overview...

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Did Microsoft Threaten to Retaliate Against Dell for Telling the Truth About GNU/Linux?

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After public embarrassment for Microsoft, Dell "censors" its own Web pages that say GNU/Linux is more secure than Windows

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Obama internet 'kill switch' proposed

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Obama would be granted powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet under a new bill that describes the global internet as a US "national asset".

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Python 2 series reaches last update

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Python 2.7, the last in the legacy Python 2.x dynamic language line, moved closer to general availability earlier this month when developers of the language put out a release candidate.

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UFO: Alien Invasion 2.3 released

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UFO: Alien Invasion's team -- a free software squad-based tactical strategy game in the tradition of the old X-COM PC games, that combines military realism with hard science-fiction and the weirdness of an alien invasion, is proud to announce the 2.3 release.

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Monitoringforge community

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Lately, I have been noticing that this community site has been losing some steam, wanted to know if other folks has also been noticing the same. If so, does anyone has an idea, what can be done to make sure this site gain momentum, make more folks to join the community and actively contribute in various projects.

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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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