The Mozilla Foundation is thinking about creating a separate organization to take control of its Thunderbird e-mail application, allowing it to concentrate on development of the Firefox Web browser.
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Mozilla ponders separate organization for Thunderbird
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Obsession with Microsoft
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The article represents and irony where the open source people discuss too much about Microsoft and possible help M$ in the process
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It's all about community at Ubuntu Live
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The first ever Ubuntu Live conference, running concurrently with the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, ran for three days starting on Sunday, and crammed in as many keynotes, sessions, and tutorials as anyone could possibly want.
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Inside One Laptop per Child: Episode 04
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"Episode 04 takes us on location in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Where the first batches of XOs have been delivered and deployed."
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Fork a kernel, kill an "OS" and revolutionize the desktop
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The news of Con Kolivas, a Linux kernel developer, quitting that role, along with an interview in which he explains why, could and should make loud noises around the Free Software community which is often touting GNU/Linux as the best operating system one could use, and not just because of freedom you have with it.
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Mozilla Firefox Still At Risk
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Sometimes you get the flaw fixed right the first time and sometimes you don't. For Mozilla, apparently they have not properly fixed at least two types of flaws which they previously claimed to have fixed.
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Ubuntu Must 'Play To Its Strengths" to Beat Microsoft
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"The fact that Microsoft has a majority market share in PC desktops is the biggest challenge facing the growth of Ubuntu and free software in general."
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BBC Trust backs calls for Linux iPlayer
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The BBC Trust met with the Open Source Consortium (OSC) yesterday to discuss the controversy raised by the BBC's iPlayer, which will only work on Windows XP.
Read more »Eben Moglen challenges Tim O'Reilly to "join the conversation"
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At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention today, Software Freedom Law Center director Eben Moglen threw down the gauntlet to O'Reilly founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly. Saying that O'Reilly had spent 10 years making money and building the O'Reilly name, Moglen invited O'Reilly to stop being "frivolous" and to join the conversation about software freedom.
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UK 'lags behind' in open source adoption
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"UK firms are lagging behind in the adoption of open source software, suggesting less government emphasis compared with other European countries such as France, Germany, Spain and Italy."
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Next major PC company to go Linux will be HP
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"People used to think the very idea that a major PC vendor would offer desktop Linux was beyond a joke. It was, as Vizzini from The Princess Bride would have said, "Inconceivable!""
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Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas
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Interview of Con Kollivas, the kernel developer and author of Linux Kernel -ck patchset, describing why he is quitting.
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Linux Desktop Adoption: Hitting a Brick Wall?
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Despite fantastic advances with Desktop Linux as a collective whole, there still seems to be some hurdles that this Windows alternative has yet to overcome. In this piece, I’ll examine these from my own perspective, that of a full time Linux user.
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Marketing Ubuntu - Why we Need More Double Glazing Salesmen
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Recently I’ve been involving myself with the task of marketing Ubuntu, which lead me to wonder why it is that Ubuntu isn’t marketed very well in the first place.
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Does Open Source Matter?
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I think that the reality is that for 99 percent of the people who buy and use products, it doesn’t. If you can’t read code, why would you care if you can? There is this central message of “freedom,” but it doesn’t really apply to a freedom that the average person identifies with. For instance, you are free to flap your arms and fly to the moon too, but if you can’t do it, so what?
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