Open source moves at a different speed to commercial software. This has become apparent over the last decade as Linux and its open source fellow travellers (Apache, Open Office, MySQL, Firefox ,et al) gradually established their position in the software world.
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Could Linux become the dominant OS?
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Linux Journal: the Last Idiot's Club
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I dropped my subscription to Linux Journal a couple of years ago because I got tired of their stubborn refusal to admit women into their gearhead club.
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Richard Stallman, founder of GNU Project confirmed safe after earthquake
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"Wikinews has learned that Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project, is confirmed to be safe in Peru after a massive 8.0 earthquake struck the country on August 15. It was earlier reported that he may have been missing..."
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Skype and the GNU Affero GPL
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"It's providential that yesterday's Skype failure [...] happens just as the Free Software Foundation is publishing its final draft of the GNU Affero GPL, and shortly after the release of the much-debated General Public License, Version 3. I think this massive failure in a service beloved and depended on by millions of people around the world will sharpen discussion of these two licenses...
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Happy Birthday Debian!
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Debian, the Linux distribution that Ubuntu is based on, is 14 years old today. Incredible! Here is a link to the original announcement by Ian Murdock.
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Desktop Faceoff: Fedora vs. Vista
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Every few months, a pundit asks, "Is Linux ready for the desktop?" The implication, of course, is that it hasn't been -- at least, not until very recently. Yet those who actually use a GNU/Linux desktop know that the operating system has been ready for some years.
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Fighting Megatron: five steps to freedom
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The free software world is being attacked by a large, wealthy, brutal monopolist, who I’ll call “Megatron” for today.
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A recent column on Zdnet, by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, discussed the reasons why people won't change from a retail operating system to a free one. The implication is that Linux can't even give away their software.
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Open-source companies to be acquired by proprietary vendors?
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Tim believes that open source, at least as defined by open-source licensing, has a short shelf life that will be consumed by Web 2.0 (i.e., Web companies hijacking open-source software to deliver proprietary Web services) or by traditional proprietary software vendors.
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Vote in the 2007 Desktop Linux Survey
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DesktopLinux.com launched its 2007 Desktop Linux Survey on August 13, asking users of Linux desktops to identify what distributions they use, as well as their choice of windowing environment (KDE, GNOME, etc.), web browsers, email clients, and Windows-on-Linux solutions.
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Free software campaigners stonewalled at BBC
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) mounted its protests against "corruption" of the BBC by Microsoft in London and Manchester this morning.
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Torvalds attacks Microsoft over open source
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Microsoft is spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt among open source users, Linus Torvalds said in an interview published last week.
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Ask a penguin to see which way Linux wind blows
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The nonprofit Linux Foundation has unveiled the Linux Weather Forecast, a Web site aimed at giving people a better sense of the status of specific Linux kernel projects.
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Is the OLPC project doomed to failure?
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The last few years have witnessed an increasing focus on creating inexpensive, affordable computers for users in the developing world.
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Interview with Jeff Starkweather, Chris Buechler and Scott Ullrich
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Centipede Networks has recently entered a partnership with BSD Perimeter to offer commercial support for two important free software projects, pfSense and m0n0wall. I had a chance to talk to Jeff Starkweather (CEO of Centipede Networks), Chris Buechler (BSD Perimiter’s CTO) and Scott Ullrich (Chief Architect at BSD Perimiter).
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