Free software begins, famously, with an itch – one person who wants something done, and decides to do it (“how hard can it be?” is the usual war-cry).
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Non-Linux FOSS
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If you're a Linux fan, there's a bit of a tendency to think that Linux and open source are two ways of saying the same thing. However, plenty of FOSS projects exist that don't have anything to do with Linux.
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Microsoft’s Profits Down Sharply, Microsoft’s FUD Up Sharply
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Reaffirmation of Microsoft's problems comes from its sympathisers; Microsoft FUD ensues
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Some prefer marathoning... I prefer going to my old workplace
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"I was invited to talk about Free Software at yesterday's FLISOL. Yesterday? Aren't FLISOLs organized on Saturday? Well, not this one, for various reasons which I won't quote here. And no, I am not a supporter of the installfests idea, but I went gladly to talk about what is Free Software all about - The philosophy behind Free Software.."
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Presentations of Erik Josefsson and Pontus Nyman for Idépriset ‘09
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"on wednesday the 29th (next week) at 14.00, I have invited Erik Josefsson (v) and Pontus Nyman to the IT University in Gothenburg for a mini-presentation of two interesting projects. Erik and Pontus were two of the winners of Idépriset ‘09 organised by Föreningen fri kultur och programvara, and they are invited to talk about the projects with which they won..."
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Keith Curtis Authors a Case for Free Software that Could Change the World
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"Keith Curtis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft, takes a programmer’s approach in “Software Wars,” attempting to systematically build a case that free software can help pave the way for a 21st-century renaissance in many fields ranging from artificial intelligence (cars that drive themselves) to the human journey into space (space elevators). For Mr.
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"I'm on my way back home from Red Hat's EMEA Partner Summit in Malta, the second annual partner summit in EMEA, while I'm writing this.
Read more »Say ‘No’ to software patents
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"The Indian government is thinking about introducing software patents in the country. But software patents are bad for everyone except large software companies, says V Sasi Kumar..."
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Social networking and the free software community: enter FLOSS.pro
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"Ever since Richard Stallman started the free software movement, the core ideal of it has been built around the concept of a community. A network of people working and playing together for their common good. In the last couple of years computer science research have found a new hot-tech in the user-interaction space: social networking..."
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Free Software Supporter -- Issue 13, April 2009
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* Version 2.2 of gNewSense released
* FSF releases audio recording of LibrePlanet conference
* Winners of the annual free software awards announced!
* Help spring the Javascript Trap
* European Elections and the Free Software Pact
* Can you help the Open Graphics Project?
* Nintendo DSi: Defective by DESiGN
* Join Amazon authors' "drmfree" effort
Web fonts starts bubbling merrily: “Fuck the foundries”
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"Mark Pilgrim is an important software freedom advocate, famous for his blog posts about switching from Mac OS X to GNU/Linux (nb Gruber’s reply) and from MovableType to WordPress. So I’m happy to see him championing web fonts, since this little feature of CSS3 that is going to ship in all major browsers this year hasn’t got enough press I think..."
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Microsoft Loses to Google and Free Software
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Evidence in the news of Microsoft's losses to Google on the Web and Free software on the desktop, Web, mind share
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Could free software liberate poor countries?
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Nine years ago I wrote this headline for a Linux Today story. You can read the full story below.
This is a follow-up.
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What Oracle-Sun means for Java, open source and RIAs
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Industry analysts weigh in on what the future holds for Sun Microsystems’ software initiatives. Potential anti-trust issues and fee-based Java extensions may lie in the future
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CONSOL 2009
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«I participated at CONSOL 2009 and had the opportunity to give 4 talks this time and meet with "the software libre community"...»
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