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Red Hat CEO questions desktop's relevance in Linux debate

http://www.infoworld.com

New paradigms, such as cloud computing, are changing the desktop scene, CEO Jim Whitehurst argues
Linux has achieved success on servers, but can it make a go of it on the desktop? Panelists at a technical conference Tuesday evening debated the question, with a Red Hat official wondering whether the issue is even relevant anymore.

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Created by Noog 13 years 10 weeks ago
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Protecting community from corporate

http://news.cnet.com

Sometimes our best intentions give way to our worst, for a wide variety of reasons. This is as true of corporate amalgamations of individuals as it is of those individuals on their own, and it's as true for open-source companies as it is for proprietary companies.

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Created by peacemaker 13 years 10 weeks ago
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The Free Beer Economy

http://www.linuxjournal.com

Why is FREE! the world's best-selling noun, verb, adjective and adverb, yet so hard to credit as a foundation for business in the Internet Age? And what will happen when business folk finally grok the abundant opportunities that FREE! provides?

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Created by sockpuppet 13 years 11 weeks ago
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The Good, The Bad And The Open

http://www.informationweek.com

A quote attributed to various sources goes as follows: "Technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral." It takes the shape you give to it, but it will always take one shape or another. The same could be said of open source, and ought to be.

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Created by Sun 13 years 12 weeks ago
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Freedom vs. Control

http://mr-oss.com

The lack of Linux tools which can modify enterprise wide linux deployments is helping to slow it's adoption. Linux philosophy is based around freedom from the control. The control is in the hands of the user and the enterprise administer is left out in the cold.

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Created by GTAGod 13 years 12 weeks ago
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Why the Philosophies of Nietzsche and Rand Are Poison To Geeks

http://penguinpetes.com

With a title like that, I hope you're not expecting this post to be light reading. I'm also blindly assuming that you have at least a passing familiarity with the concepts of Objectivism and the Übermensch. If you aren't familiar with these concepts, you can skip this. I envy your bliss.

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Created by C733tus 13 years 13 weeks ago
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Mr. Stallman's Internet: How RMS May Be Looking The Wrong Way At The Internet

http://lxer.com

Once more unto the breach my friends, Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has laid another profound thought process out there for us to digest. This man is definitely deserves everyone's respect. Whether you agree with him or not, he has given the whole planet gifts that it does not even realize for the most part.

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Created by bollezza 13 years 13 weeks ago
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Response to "Why Games are NOT the Key to Linux Adoption"

http://blog.tsmacdonald.com

A response to Jon Peck's article "Why Games are NOT the Key to Linux Adoption", pointing out the flaws in his arguments.

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Created by fiddler616 13 years 14 weeks ago
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Linux For Anarchists

http://www.thoughtcrime.org

There is a disturbing lack of resistance to Microsoft's market hegemony among anarchists and activists today. It is counter-revolutionary to design revolutionary fliers on a computer running Windows XP, displaying protest pictures on a computer running Windows XP is not a statement of protest, and using Microsoft software to coordinate anti-capitalist action is not anti-capitalist.

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Created by peacemaker 13 years 14 weeks ago
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Music DRM

http://xkcd.com

Just yesterday I bought my first non-DRM'd songs (The Last Vegas, in keeping with my 'I only listen to things from Guitar Hero' theme).

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Created by fredsambo 13 years 14 weeks ago
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Linux is a Monkey Wrench?

http://www.daniweb.com

Someone commented on one of my posts the other day, stating that Linux is a tool and not a religion. Can this be true? I would hate to think that for the past 15 years that I've invested in Linux, it would turn out that Linux is merely a tool, a--dare I say it--a monkey wrench? Say it ain't so.

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Created by peacemaker 13 years 15 weeks ago
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

http://twofourtech.com

"This was originally posted 13 years ago today by John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Created by can.axis 13 years 16 weeks ago
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Money is Not Wealth

http://www.linuxtoday.com

We hear it so often it becomes part of the overall background noise-- silly propaganda about how FOSS is anti-capitalist and un-American because it can't be locked up and exploited. I picture people who look like Mr. Burns on the Simpsons cackling, rubbing their hands, and gloating over their ill-gotten gains. They must be ill-gotten because it's more fun that way. "Mine! All mine!

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Created by extra 13 years 17 weeks ago
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Action research: mapping the nexus of research and political action

http://www.interfacejournal.net

"...The first examples of online creation communities are development communities, that is communities developed around free software programming, such as the communities around Apache, GNU and Linux, Debian or Drupal.

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Created by can.axis 13 years 18 weeks ago
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Episode 0x05: Eben Moglen on Origins of Copyright and Patents

http://www.softwarefreedom.org

"...In the speech, Eben discusses in depth the origins of the copyright and patent system, and how Free Software interacts with that history..."

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