I summarize in this blog post the questions, challenges and objections that were mentioned during a conference about open source/FLOSS that I gave to about 20 IT directors of Small Businesses (100-500 employees).
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The behavioral economics of free software
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People who use and promote free software cite various reasons for their choice, but do those reasons tell the whole story? If, as a community, we want free software to continue to grow in popularity, especially in the mainstream, we should understand better the true reasons for choosing it—especially our own.
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KTorrent 4.0 released with Magnet links and µTP protocol support
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KTorrent 4.0 is finally released. This release add some rather interesting features like magnet support and the uTP protocol (bittorrent over UDP). Next to these big ones many smaller ones were also added: UDP tracker scraping was added, usability of the queue manager widget has been improved, you can now add multiple trackers at the same time...
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Sneak preview for coming KDE SC 4.5
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KDE SC 4.5 is in feature freeze right now. Therefore, I decided to share some of early screenshots with you. In general there are no major changes. It is all about polishing and fixing bugs. There is a lot of under-hood changes in libraries which as enduser we cannot see. KDE SC will be released in August 2010. Now I will let you enjoy the screenshots.
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Fedora 13 (Goddard) Officialy Released
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Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that brings the latest in free and open source software to your desktop, laptop and server, and gives you access to thousands of different open source applications. Fedora 13 (Goddard) is filled with improvements that make Linux better than ever for all types of users.
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Django 1.2.1 released
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As previously announced, today marks the release of Django 1.2.1, the first bugfix release in the Django 1.2 series -- free software high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
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A conference on software patents and free software
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On April 29, the University of Colorado held a conference on patents and free software. The following is not a comprehensive report of the event; instead, it focuses on a few of the more interesting moments.
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Hollywood: Your Software Freedom Stops Here
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Richard Stallman recommends reduced exposure to Hollywood's so-called "premium content", which increasingly excludes or punishes users of Free software like GNU/Linux
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sighttpd 1.1.0 release (includes Ogg Vorbis support)
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Sighttpd is an HTTP streaming server designed for distributing realtime input. It is particularly useful for making camera streams available to multiple clients, and has been designed for embedded systems use. This release adds a module for streaming Ogg Vorbis from standard input.
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KDE Plasma Media Center Status Report and Introduction
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So here it is, prepare for some stunning screenshots and much magnificent marketing mash :-) . Article doesn't talk about the technical/coding stuff, just about what you get at the moment. Details will be for another post.
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Konsole’s User Interface Changes
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Konsole is the app that probably almost every KDE developer uses on a daily basis, but there hasn’t been much development on the user interface front during the last releases. Nonetheless some recent changes may be worth blogging about.
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Kraft Helps Small Businesses Manage Their Work
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If you’re a small business owner, you probably don’t need all the bells and whistles of a full-fledged customer relationship management (CRM) application, but you still do need a solid platform from which to automate common business tasks such as managing materials and generating invoices, ideally at little cost. Then Kraft is a great choice.
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The MMORPG Ryzom goes Free Software
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Breakthrough for free software gaming -- Ryzom announces full release of source code and artwork, and a partnership with the Free Software Foundation to host a repository of the game's artistic assets.
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Amazing HTML5 Video Player Demo Powered By Ogg Theora
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A demonstration page of the SublimeVideo player. It still has some bugs in it, but this is rock-solid proof that high-quality Ogg Theora video is capable of quick streaming in this player.
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KDE PIM on Mobile – What’s going on?
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KDE PIM developers are working hard to get a personal information management stack based on KDE and Akonadi onto Maemo/MeeGo devices with the benefits and features that Kontact and the rest of KDE PIM brings desktop users today in stable versions of KDE PIM.
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