The idea of Microsoft profiting from your work and code makes me feel like I have something slimy and stinking all over me. It's not enough for them to lie and steal their way partially to the top...they have turned our own philosophies and licenses upon us and used them to their benefit.
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Redmond On The Ropes
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U.K. Linux users lose to U.S. and Europe
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U.K. users are used to paying over the odds for PCs compared to their U.S. counterparts, but when it comes to Linux, it seems that they come off worse compared to the rest of Europe too.
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Ubuntu tries to go LoCo in all 50 states
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The Ubuntu community is seeking to get approved Local Community (LoCo) teams in all 50 states in the US by the end of this year, and it's making impressive progress.
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Mark Shuttleworth » Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?
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It’s too early to say for certain, but there are very encouraging signs that the world’s standards bodies will vote in favour of a single unified ISO (”International Standards Organisation”) document format standard. There is already one document format standard - ODF, and currently the ISO is considering a proposal to bless an alternative, Microsoft’s OpenXML, as another standard.
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Microsoft Must Earn Respect of FOSS Community
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Can you believe it? Given Microsoft's history of antagonism, It's hard to believe anyone - let alone the Linux Foundation - would call on the FOSS community to respect Microsoft. No, if Microsoft wants respect, they should get it the 'old-fashioned' way - by earning it.
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Compiz Fusion, our first release. 0.5.2
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Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the Compiz community plugin set “Compiz Extras” and the window manager core independent parts of the “Beryl” project. Both Compiz Extras and Beryl have left important marks on in how we look at Window management, and with the merge, you no longer have to choose which one to use.
Read more »A look at the Mozilla-based One Laptop per Child web browser
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The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project is in the final steps to finally ship the first laptops to poor children living in poor countries.
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Will Google Be Destroyed By Open Source Search Engines?
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Could open source kill the golden egg that laid Google? If Wikia has its way, it just might.
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Children's Reviews of OLPC XO Technology
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While we can endlessly debate One Laptop Per Child on OLPC News, what really matters will be the opinions and adoption of XO technology by children. And recently children have been expressing their views on the matter.
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Darl McBride, where are you?
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Nearly 54 months ago, when the SCO Group launched its legal action against IBM, there were a number of cheerleaders - both SCO personnel and outsiders - who contributed a great deal to the debate.
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Aiken SC High School Deploying Moodle
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Midland Valley High School, in Aiken, SC, received a grant allowing it to deploy Moodle and offer students laptops.
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Why capitalist pigs would be good for Mozilla
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I won't go into the economics, but suffice it to say that I think there's little hope of Mozilla making Firefox (or any of its other software) into true public goods of any note.
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Summer Reading List
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Today I thought I might suggest a little bit of summer reading, now the good weather has finally arrived in the UK! Some are a little off the beaten track, with less explicit links to free software; all of them, in my opinion, will be of interest to anybody visiting this website. So, read the list, pay a visit to Amazon and grab the nearest bottle of sun cream!
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Linspire executives exodus?
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According to multiple sources close to Linux distributor Linspire, former CEO Kevin Carmony was not the only executive to leave Linspire at the end of July.
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The open-source community's double standard on MySQL
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Deja vu. Remember 2002? That's when Red Hat decided to split its code into Red Hat Advanced Server (now Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Fedora.
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