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gpl vs. skype back in court

http://www.hackaday.com

"tomorrow the high district court of munich will hear skype argue against the validity of the gpl."

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13 useful Ubuntu tips & tricks

http://icehot.wordpress.com

1. Play youtube videos directly in Totem Movie Player (Hardy):
2. Another tip: i recently find out that by holding the mouse over audio files:
3. To customize most of the colors of your ubuntu:
4. To refresh the gnome panel:
5. To find out the UUID of your partitions:

13 tips& tricks and some useful little software

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New Richard Stallman Video in Manchester

http://manchester.fsuk.org

The newly formed Manchester Free software Group hosted Richard Stallman in Manchester or the first of May.
Talking on the subject of Free Software in ethics and practice", RMS drew a crowd of more than 300 people to the event, run in association with the BCS and IET.

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Richard Stallman: Free Software in Ethics and Practice

http://www.digitalcitizen.info

"In 1984, Richard Stallman founded a social movement known as the free software movement. The free software movement fights for the ability to control our computers as a cooperative community (as opposed to being under the rule of software proprietors where users have only as much control over their computers as the proprietor allows).

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Running Only on Open-Source Software

http://www.midmarket.eweek.com

Open-source software has found increasing acceptance within IT for infrastructure application - but many may still wonder, 'Is it possible to run a company almost entirely with open-source offerings?'

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Interactive Linux kernel map

http://www.makelinux.net

Have a look at Linux kernel source from a bird's eye view. The Linux kernel is one of the most mysterious open source projects. There is a lot of documentation, however it is still a difficult subject to comprehend. The Interactive Linux kernel map is intended to help people gain an overview of the structure and interactions of the Linux Kernel.

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Gzip, Bzip2 and Lzma compared

http://blog.i-no.de

There has recently been a discussion about GNU switching from bzip2 to lzma for their distributed tarballs. They still offer gzip tarballs as an alternative. However, Gentoo has been preferring the bzip2 tarballs mostly due to the improved pack ratio of bzip2. Unfortunately, the software for lzma is not (yet) as mature as some would like.

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Debian GNU/Linux SuiteTelecentro: millions of users for the digital society every year

http://techforce.com.br

The Brazilian Debian GNU / Linux SuiteTelecentro benefits more than 4 millions users every year.

The Brazilian Debian GNU / Linux SuiteTelecentro is a custom solution which is currently being deployed in the Digital Inclusion Program of Banco do Brasil. SuiteTelecentro is used in approximately 2000 telecentres and computer rooms.

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Thousands of patent decisions might be invalid

http://www.livemint.com

Law Professor John F. Duffy discovered that thousands of patents in the US might be unconstitutional. The government has no comments at this moment.

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Announcing Freedom Summer of Code

https://we.riseup.net

"Riseup Labs is excited to announce the Freedom Summer of Code! We aim to advance critical movement technology projects and tools that benefit a wide-variety of radical social justice organizations and movements..."

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Ballnux on HP Laptops: Fail

http://boycottnovell.com

When Hewlett-Packard first announced that it had made SLED 10 its choice for a low-cost laptops, we were not very surprised because of the solidarity there is between Microsoft and H-P (Dell raises some doubts too).

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"Cooking" a DVD with Cinelerra and DVDStyler.

http://akiradproject.net

On this tutorial, we will learn how to make a dvd using dvdstyler and cinelerra.

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Company selling computers preinstalled with gNewSense

http://laclinux.com

"gNewSense DeltaH was released today, and we are pleased to offer preconfigured Workstations, Portable Systems, ThinkCentres, Laptops, and Servers, as well as fully customized Core 2 Duo, Athlon 64, Xeon, and Opteron computers, preinstalled with the latest gNewSense GNU/Linux operating system.

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Non-free SF on free systems

http://www.alfonsojimenez.com

"People are ignorant, but we already know that. As usual, I’ve read something really stupid on Twitter this morning. It said: I hope Apple will develop for everyone [every OS]. I think it would be one of the worst things to ever happen. Why do people want to install non-free software on free systems?

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Created by can.axis 6 days 17 hours ago – Made popular 6 days 3 hours ago
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Free and Open Source Software Guide for SMEs

http://www.zeapartners.org

Two EU-funded projects in the area of Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS), namely OpenTTT and FLOSSMETRICS, have recently published a F/OSS guide for SMEs. Different types of software applications and businesses are addressed, making this guide useful for most SMEs that wish to simply use F/OSS or even build a F/OSS-based business approach.

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