Yesterday on the mailing list for GCC is was brought up if Apple's Objective-C 2.0 patches for the GNU Compiler Collection could be merged back into the upstream GCC code-base as maintained by the Free Software Foundation.
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Ready to be an open source contributor but don't know where to start?
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In early 2009, as the stories of many websites begin, a few college friends were considering what kind of project they might start together. In this particular case, the result was OpenHatch.
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Greg DeKoenigsber Backtracks in Case of Canonical Critique
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Ubuntu hopefully emerges stronger and its parent company more willing to work upstream after Internet confrontations ignited by DeKoenigsber et al.
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Canonical takes much more than it gives
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...what does Canonical contribute to the FOSS world? Where does it stand in terms of its contributions to other FOSS projects, from which it takes software to create Ubuntu?
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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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When the Contribution Model Fails
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I'm a big advocate of Open Source software. However Open Source has it's flaws. The contribution model may be one of it's greatest strengths, but is also a big weakness.
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Novell’s Contributions to Linux Drop Sharply
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Qt Now Open for Community Contributions
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Today, we at Qt Software have opened our repositories to the public. Any developer can now help guide and shape the future development of Qt by contributions of code, translations, examples and other material to Qt and Qt-related projects. We have also published our roadmap and released Qt Jambi under the LGPL. Read on for details.
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FSF, SGI Cooperated to Resolve Licensing Issue in X.org, Mesa
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IconThanks to SGI, a potential disaster for Free software purists has been averted. Back in January 2008, it was discovered by the OpenBSD guys that some of the contributions to X.org and the Mesa 3D Graphics Library made by SGI were covered under permissive open source licenses that didn't fall within FSF's definition of Free software.
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A Salute to Volunteers
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Recently, on another site, someone suggested that the development and marketing of Ubuntu was done by paid staff of Canonical. Having been actively involved in the Arizona Team for 8 months I would like to say that I really doubt that the suggestion can be taken seriously by anyone who knows a little about Ubuntu.
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Red Hat leads open source contributions to Linux Kernel
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Linux distribution vendor Red Hat has streaked ahead as the leading corporate contributor to the ongoing open source project, the Linux Kernel.
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Announcing the KStars Image Challenge!
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Ever wanted to contribute to KStars, but don't have programming skills? Now you can.
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