I wish more pundits, bloggers, analysts, and tech reporters would comment more on the astonishing generosity that is the basis of Linux and FOSS. We need to take a break from arguing with each other to thank and honor all the thousands of hardworking talented contributors who give away their work.
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What should we do with Free Software users who don't contribute to it in any way?
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This page was born as an answer to an Italian article titled "Open Source, I want everything now and I won't give anything back".
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Free Software Foundation Drums Up Community Team
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Richard Stallman's free software organization seeks to assemble a loose and open group of supporters on a voluntary basis to distribute information on the Web and promote free software.
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The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine December 2009 Issue
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The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2009 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. In the December 2009 issue: 2009 Holiday Gift & Stocking Stuffer Guide, Game Zone: Quake III Arena Linux Client, and Command Line Interface Intro: Part 3.
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Notes from the LF End User Summit
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To much of the user community, though, the situation looks different, with core developers seemingly as distant and inaccessible as they would be if they were doing proprietary code.
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Zemlin: 'Industry transformation depends on Linux'
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The closest thing to a CEO in Linux land is Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation. While Zemlin doesn't steer the Linux ship, he does a great deal to corral its competing interests. I caught up with Zemlin late last week to get a pulse on the state of Linux in the market. As ever, Zemlin didn't disappoint.
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I Want GNU Systems…
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Short response to a lot of recent FUD about the viability of Free software in demanding systems
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What’s the real market share of OpenOffice.org ?
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And that’s a good question that was debated, and settled, during the wonderful OOoCon 2009 that took place in Orvieto . Now you might ask whether someone came up with figures or a precise market percentage. It was not exactly the way it happened. We still (and will always) have real difficulties quantifying market shares for OpenOffice.org .
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What's Coming for Open Source in 2010
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With the end of the year quickly approaching, it's time for a few 2010 predictions.
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Real Linux advocates educate, not humiliate
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Checking Twitter yesterday I caught a link to "Command Line Idiocy," a post that rips apart an article on "10 powerful CLI tools." Here's a short sample of the flavor of the piece:
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Trouble Free Karmic Koala
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The last time I blogged about Ubuntu Desktop, either I didn't explain the problems I was having sufficiently, or people just don't get it and react. I have decided to just keep on writing and let the chips fall where they may.
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A great event of apache.
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The apache roadshow is mainly targeted for the web service Technologies in Apache. It is organized by Lanka Software Foundation(lsf) and sponsored by leading opensource companies and communities in Sri Lanka.
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On the OSS Meritocracy Myth
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What most people are still unable to understand is that the FOSS community is the FOSS community. There is no central body that governs it. You can "criticize" it, but most people can and will simply shrug their shoulders and get on with what they're doing.
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Knoppix founder Klaus Knopper interview
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Linux User & Developer magazine talks to the multitalented open source pioneer, Klaus Knopper, who once said that computers are stupid, ill-designed and incompatible…
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What is it with numlock and Linux?
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It is just one of those things which will, when it doesn't work properly, drive you around the bend back to front and sideways. As you most probably have guessed from the title I am talking about the numlock function.
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