A month of the Hurd: Arch Hurd, updated Debian GNU/Hurd QEMU image, and GSoC students.
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Kobby: Collaborative Text Editor
Kobby is a tool that allows users to to collaborate on text files. The collaborative text editor is a really great tool for a lot of situations. Instead of passing documents (or emails) back and forth to get your work done, collaborate in real time.
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KDevelop 4.0 IDE Released with C++ and PHP Support
The KDevelop Hackers are proud and happy to announce that KDevelop 4.0 is finally available as a stable release. Released together is the first version of KDevelop PHP plugins, which make KDevelop a very interesting option for PHP developers. The major features for C++ support include code navigation, and semantic highlighting.
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Apple: Worse for open source than Microsoft?
Things need to change and Apple needs to be seen for what it really is: a threat to innovation and freedom. For as long as anyone can remember Microsoft has been seen as the primary enemy of free and open source software (FOSS).
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Chem4Word Should Support Free Software Platforms/Office Suites to Better Qualify as Free Software
Chem4Word is an example of Free software which is trapped deep inside Microsoft's proprietary cage and needs rescuing
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The real, and unusual, story between Microsoft and Piracy
In a recent post at Pcmag titled "CSI Redmond: How Microsoft Tracks Down Pirates", the author tells a long, suspenseful and obviously MS-sympathetic tale about Microsoft's epic battles against "criminals and pirates".
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Songbird gets forked after stopping Linux support.
Recently, a number of blogs have covered the bad news about Songbird development team halting Linux support for the Songbird music player. The good news is: The project has already been forked.
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ACTA Versus Software Freedom
Opinions on the emergence of the ACTA text and what it means to Free software, as well as other aspects of decreasingly-free life
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Smearing Free Software is a Terrible Business/Marketing Strategy
FUD tactics or cheap shots against Free(dom) software no longer jives well with Jive Software
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Richard Stallman’s Life Dedication to Software Freedom
Richard Stallman explains how much he has sacrificed so that the world of software will be a better place for users and developers alike
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Richard Stallman: "I Wished I Had Killed Myself"
Richard Stallman seems an unstoppable force of nature, constantly fighting for the things he believes in. And yet in a new interview he says: “I have certainly wished I had killed myself when I was born.”
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ACTA: threats to Free Software
Today with the first public release of ACTA, the effects the international agreement will have on Free Software appear to be dangerous for its development and its distribution. First, by extending infringements proceedings and criminal offences to a broad scope of “intellectual property” including software patents.
Read more »Finally! The first Gluon alpha released!
The Gluon project is an open framework for creating and distributing games - supporting the flow of the idea all the way from the author to the player of the finished game using 2D graphics. After long months of hard work, the team is now very proud to announce the release and availability of the Gluon software packages.
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Socrates on sharing knowledge
If you have problems in understanding the substance of Free Software, read the following dialogue between Socrates and Antiphon.
How do you feel about this? Does it represent the essence behind FLOSS to you?
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A Sneak Peak At the Black Box Inside Your Phone
Cellular telephony seems to be the biggest network implementation (bigger than the Internet in means of user base) that has been surprisingly closed to inspection and experimentation despite its age. Lately, I've started actively getting informed about GSM network protocols and their free implementations such as OpenBTS and OpenBSC.
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