"Skype fought the GPL and the GPL won. The OLPC XO project abandons free software just as RMS switches to an XO; RMS not happy. New monthly newsletters from the FSF and FSFE. GNOME and KDE want to have a joint development conference in 2009. GNOME and GCC conferences coming up later this year. Plus all the usual news: more GPL v3 conversions, HURD news, GNOME news, GCC news, and more..."
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gpl vs. skype back in court
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"tomorrow the high district court of munich will hear skype argue against the validity of the gpl."
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Tony Mobily interviews the developers of Ekiga
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Tony Mobily at Freesoftware Magazine interviews the developers of Ekiga, the free sfotware for making free 'phone call across the internet.
By the time you have finished reading this epic article you will know a hell of a lot about Ekiga and VOIP in general. Catch these great guys in full spate!
Read more »Skype now has no free software competitor. Or has it?
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The OpenWengo project ceased to exist last November, and all the developers have been laid off. So, is it true that Wengophone is dead and Skype has no other serious competitor? Not quite.
Read more »Skype 2.0 vs. Ekiga for Linux
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Many of us wonder, why is there so much excitement over Skype when, at its core, Ekiga is a more robust application with even more maturity behind it?
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Why proprietary code is bad for security
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Tho Skype is using an encrypted protocol, it’s still their own, non-disclosed code and property. So we don’t know what it contains. The same is true for many network products of big vendors like Cisco and the like - and they are everywhere in between you and your communication partner, be it email, phone, or anything else.
Read more »Beware of Skype
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On Sunday, August 5, 2007 Bush signed the revised Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) into law, in which the U.S. Congress spinelessly caved in and gave legal authority to the Bush administration to continue to intercept and spy on electronic communications. Then, on Thursday, August 16, 2007 the whole worldwide Skype network goes down. Coincidence?
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Windows Patch Caused Crash, Skype Says
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Millions of simultaneous user reboots after a routine Windows update overtaxed the VoIP system, Skype says.
Read more »Skype and the GNU Affero GPL
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"It's providential that yesterday's Skype failure [...] happens just as the Free Software Foundation is publishing its final draft of the GNU Affero GPL, and shortly after the release of the much-debated General Public License, Version 3. I think this massive failure in a service beloved and depended on by millions of people around the world will sharpen discussion of these two licenses...
Read more »Skype responds to Euro GPL rebuke
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In response to inquiries regarding a German court's ruling that Skype had breached the GPL, the company told LinuxDevices.com today that it "has not acted improperly." The alleged violation was associated with the method by which Skype "distributed" GPL-licensed source code with a Linux-powered VoIP handset.
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German Court convicted Skype of violating the GPL
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German district court Munich has convicted Skype of violating the GPL. One of the VoIP telephones sold by Skype run Linux, but the GPL text was not handed out together with the phone, although the GPL requires that.
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Nokia Skypes its N800 Linux tablet
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Nokia has released updated firmware for its Linux-based N800 Internet Tablet. The fourth Tablet OS 2007 release this year -- "4.2007.26-8" -- brings a Skype client, Flash 9 player, and support for 8GB SD memory cards, while Nokia's own VoIP service beta installer has been removed.
Read more »Skype staff play good cop bad cop with Linux users
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"A member of Skype staff posting in the Linux support forum there seems to have taken a course in customer relations from if his responses to criticism of the lack of real world development of the Linux version of Skype, compared to Windows development, are anything to go by."
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Skype for Linux 1.4 Beta
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"This release is also a milestone for us, as it is the natural successor to Linux 1.3 and is the first time we’ve created packages for 1.4. You can also find it via the public download site, so everybody is invited to enjoy the goodness of 1.4."
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