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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #117
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #117 for the week November 9th - November 15th, 2008.
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Open source: The new patent regime
"Patents are short-term monopolies (20 years) designed to give inventors sufficient time in which to recoup their R&D costs and turn a profit. Open source turns the 20-year patent term into two years, if that. As a relentless, ever-growing competitor, open source keeps the proprietary world in check and on its toes to a degree that the industry has never before seen."
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #116
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #116 for the week November 2nd - November 8th, 2008.
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Kid3 - opensource ID tagger to edit mp3 & other media files
Kid3 is a free opensource tool to easily tag multiple MP3 files (e.g. full albums) without typing the same information again and again and allow you to control and edit ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. It’s one of those things I started doing so enthusiatically and then give up after a few tracks and finally this should help me get around this.
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fdupes - Command line tool to find and list/delete duplicate files
fdupes is a simple Command Line utility to find and list duplicate files in the specified directories. fdupes can also delete the found duplicate files if instructed. fdupes can follow Symlinks and can be instructed to ignore hardlinks. fdupes can also show the size of the duplicate files. fdupes is a simple and very efficient tool, easy to use.
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Elisa - open Media center, multimedia player for openSUSE Linux
Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player. While primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems, elisa also currently support Microsoft Windows. Elisa runs on top of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
Read more »Why the linux idea of open source is "Correct"
Well, what if we played the same game, only by the time the secret comes back around, it has to be improved?
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gDesklets - Desklets for your Desktop in openSUSE
gDesklets is another great tool like Google Gadgets for bringing mini programs called desklets such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or music player controls, onto your desktop, where they are sitting there in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.
Read more »Avant Window Navigator (AWN) Mac OS like Dock in openSUSE
Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen on your Linux Distriution. It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets. The dock at the bottom of the screen gives a nice apple Mac like look for your openSUSE. There are a lot of Themes Plugins and Applets that can be added onto the dock.
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Should We Boycott Microsoft? Can We?
In part, the trigger for this is Microsoft's recent behaviour during the approval process for its OOXML document format.
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Why Miguel, Why?
Dear Miguel,
Read your post. One question immediately springs to mind.Why?
Looking forward to Microsoft subverting an International Standards Organizations submission process, and beginning a new era of vendor lock-in and monopolistic office suites seems to be antithetical to Free and Open Source philosophy.
What happened to you Miguel, you used to be cool?
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TeeWars becomes TeeWorlds, Gets "Free-er" License, Stays Fun
A game I reviewed a while back, TeeWars has updated to a newer version 0.40 along with the updated weapons physics and gameplay comes a new name, TeeWorlds, and a new License. This was followed quickly by a bugfix release 0.4.1 a few days later.
Read more »Tweak Ubuntu - with Ubuntu Tweak 0.2.6
Tweak Ubuntu the old fashioned way. Well if old fashioned is using a GUI interface (like TweakUI for Windows) instead of command line tweak, then this is it! Great little open source project.
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Ballmer's false choice: Open source or free soda
An open-source version of Windows would mean not only would we publish Windows source code, we would make it free. That's what open source means. We wouldn't be hosting Minority Student Day if we open-source Windows because we wouldn't have enough profit to pay people, let alone invite in people from the community.
I'm not saying open-source is a bad thing, but it doesn't pay the bills in this company, so we can't embrace that way of doing things. ... We give out free soda pop to everybody who works here. We make our stuff free, people gotta give back the soda pop -- it's just inconsistent with what we do around here.
Ignorance, thy name is Ballmer.
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