The headline act, if you will, was announced this morning for the third annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, and it promises to be an interesting show: the Foundation's Jim Zemlin, Microsoft's Sam Ramji, and Sun's Ian Murdock, each giving their predictions on the future of operating system they represent - and, I expect, the others' as well.
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Open Source Business Conference 2009 Opened by Steve Ballmer’s Partners
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How a company that's suing Linux with help from Novell's endorsement still harms OSBC
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First Free Software Conference Held in Nigeria
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The first Nigerian conference on Free and Open Source Software was held this week in Kano, Nigeria. The conference featured local speakers, consultants, network engineers, system administrators and academics, and international guests from KDE.
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Linux Foundation Announces Training Program to Meet Increasing Demand for Linux Talent
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The Linux Foundation today announced the Linux Foundation Training Program, which will kick off with courses taught at the Linux Foundation’s Annual Collaboration Summit April 8 - 10, 2009 in San Francisco.
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Mozilla demos impressive Firefox 3.1 features at SCALE
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During a presentation on Saturday at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard discussed some of new features that will be included in the next version of the Firefox Web browser.
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Carnival on Modern Liberty No. 2
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"Welcome to the second edition of the Carnival on Modern Liberty, chronicling the online debate in the run up to the Convention on Modern Liberty at the end of the month..."
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Zenoss Community Day - February 20th in Los Angeles at SCALE 7x
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On February 20th Zenoss will be conducting our first Zenoss Community Day the event will be held in Los Angeles as a precursor to the 7th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 7x).
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The Free Software Movement
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"Troy, NY. Darrin Communications Center, room 308, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms.
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FOSDEM accepts money from Novell and some attendants are therefore unhappy
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IT Giants Conference Kraków 2009 - January 14 2009
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" For all the fans and enthusiasts of FREE SOFTWARE as well as for students and specialists of IT and related disciplines Special Guest Star: Richard Stallman ..."
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Free Software, Free Society conference live on giss.tv
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Public can now listen to all the talks happening in the main hall at GISS.tv
Just point your media player at http://giss.tv:8000/fsfs.ogg (or just click on the link http://giss.tv/interface/?mp=fsfs.ogg ) and watch out the stream of all the talks. Check the schedule for what’s being heard right now, and don’t miss the opportunity.
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A window to Freedom - event report
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The Free Software User’s group of Thrissur had its first public gathering at the Sahithya Academy hall on Dec 4th; if the interest and enthusiasm shown by an audience numbering about 300 is any indication, the new year is going to witness a dramatic change in the way people in the Cultural capital of Kerala use computers - it’s going to be good bye and good riddance to Microsoft, and welcome t
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"Richard.M.Stallman (RMS), the founder of Free Software Foundation, will be in Bangalore from 12th to 14th (tentative) December 2008. Following this, FSUG Bangalore along with RV College of Engineering has plans to organize a set of events and would like to hear from Free Software enthusiasts around in Bangalore about various possibilities of their participation during this occasion..."
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LATIN AMERICA: Campus Party to Bridge Digital Gap
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"...One of them is Diego Saravia from Argentina, who says free software is not only indispensable for narrowing the digital gap but is « the only way to use it in an ethical manner. We are talking about freedom of knowledge, so that human beings can acquire the necessary tools for surviving in the world that is emerging.» ..."
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FSFE Newsletter
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"This was an important month for Free Software. Not only was Software Freedom Day held (as always) on the 20th, but this years marks the 25th anniversary of the GNU Project. Celebrations took place across Europe and our Fellows continued to support Free Software in local areas with enthusiasm and passion. Other important events took place.
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