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Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC?

http://www.phoronix.com

Yesterday on the mailing list for GCC is was brought up if Apple's Objective-C 2.0 patches for the GNU Compiler Collection could be merged back into the upstream GCC code-base as maintained by the Free Software Foundation.

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Created by jeff2007 11 years 35 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 35 weeks ago
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Ready to be an open source contributor but don't know where to start?

http://opensource.com

In early 2009, as the stories of many websites begin, a few college friends were considering what kind of project they might start together. In this particular case, the result was OpenHatch.

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Created by myspace1999 11 years 39 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 39 weeks ago
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Greg DeKoenigsber Backtracks in Case of Canonical Critique

http://techrights.org

Ubuntu hopefully emerges stronger and its parent company more willing to work upstream after Internet confrontations ignited by DeKoenigsber et al.

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Created by komrad 11 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 41 weeks ago
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Canonical takes much more than it gives

http://www.itwire.com

...what does Canonical contribute to the FOSS world? Where does it stand in terms of its contributions to other FOSS projects, from which it takes software to create Ubuntu?

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Created by waterbag 11 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 41 weeks ago
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What should we do with Free Software users who don't contribute to it in any way?

http://stop.zona-m.net

This page was born as an answer to an Italian article titled "Open Source, I want everything now and I won't give anything back".

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Created by fossfreak 12 years 23 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 23 weeks ago
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When the Contribution Model Fails

http://bushweed.blogspot.com

I'm a big advocate of Open Source software. However Open Source has it's flaws. The contribution model may be one of it's greatest strengths, but is also a big weakness.

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Created by ItalianPenguin 12 years 39 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 39 weeks ago
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Novell’s Contributions to Linux Drop Sharply

http://boycottnovell.com

Novell on the slippery slope of Microsoft versus Linux

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Created by komrad 12 years 44 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 44 weeks ago
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Qt Now Open for Community Contributions

http://www.kdenews.org

Today, we at Qt Software have opened our repositories to the public. Any developer can now help guide and shape the future development of Qt by contributions of code, translations, examples and other material to Qt and Qt-related projects. We have also published our roadmap and released Qt Jambi under the LGPL. Read on for details.

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Created by KDEmon 13 years 1 week ago – Made popular 13 years 1 week ago
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FSF, SGI Cooperated to Resolve Licensing Issue in X.org, Mesa

http://osnews.com

IconThanks to SGI, a potential disaster for Free software purists has been averted. Back in January 2008, it was discovered by the OpenBSD guys that some of the contributions to X.org and the Mesa 3D Graphics Library made by SGI were covered under permissive open source licenses that didn't fall within FSF's definition of Free software.

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Created by peacemaker 13 years 19 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 19 weeks ago
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A Salute to Volunteers

http://tycheent.wordpress.com

Recently, on another site, someone suggested that the development and marketing of Ubuntu was done by paid staff of Canonical. Having been actively involved in the Arizona Team for 8 months I would like to say that I really doubt that the suggestion can be taken seriously by anyone who knows a little about Ubuntu.

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Created by giantrobot 14 years 5 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 5 weeks ago
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Red Hat leads open source contributions to Linux Kernel

http://www.crn.com.au

Linux distribution vendor Red Hat has streaked ahead as the leading corporate contributor to the ongoing open source project, the Linux Kernel.

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Created by giantrobot 14 years 6 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 6 weeks ago
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Announcing the KStars Image Challenge!

http://kstars.30doradus.org

Ever wanted to contribute to KStars, but don't have programming skills? Now you can.

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Created by extra 14 years 28 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 27 weeks ago
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