"The Free Software conferences held in Berga during the last weekend, where eyeOS participated with a conference and a workshop, ended with a very special moment: The official inauguration of the first “Free Software” street in the world. Richard Stallman, founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, was invited and after speaking, officially inaugurated the street..."
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Problem posting items
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From time to time I've suffered a problem, when posting items, where a red message is displayed after inserting the prospective URL stating;
"The URL is being submitted right now!"
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Denemo switches to GPL version 3 (or later)
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GNU Denemo, a gtk+ frontend to GNU Lilypond is switching to GPL version 3.
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GPL: The Google Public License
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Until a few years ago, hardly a day went by without an article being featured on Linux Today about how “the year of Linux” had arrived. Every Linux user with a blog was willing to bet, year after year, that this was finally going to be “the year of Linux.” This was going to be the year when the public got wise, quit paying the Microsoft tax and moved over to the obviously superior Linux.
Read more »Debian Opens "Front Desk" for Derivatives
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The Front Desk will be manned by volunteers to act as mentors and advisors for derivative developers asking how to contribute work back to Debian.
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Is the FLOSS Community Shooting Itself In the Foot?
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Recently my blog attracted a lot of attention from readers who are more critical of FLOSS, and Linux in particular, than my regular readership. Naturally a long discussion erupted where critiques and defenses of various positions and opinions and how stuff works where flung to and fro.
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We demand software freedom now
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When computing began, software was freely shared amongst users. People were glad to create programs that others found useful and encouraged others to modify that software and share it freely. Now, most people consider software to be something that must not be shared and can only be modified by the original developer.
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Free software is simply software that respects our freedom -- our freedom to learn and understand the software we are using.
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The wide variety of useful, free software programs that are now available is made possible by the contributions of thousands of volunteers from around the world. While many of these free programs are created to replace proprietary programs or to solve a developer's particular needs, each and every free program can be part of a greater goal -- the creation of a fully free software environment.
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Back When Linux Was Fun
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Somehow, somewhere along the way, I'm supposed to have matured and become serious about things. And so it is with Linux. It all started out in fun. I know. I've got Linus Torvalds' "Just for Fun" here on my bookshelf. Says so right there on the front cover. Fun. And it was fun. But as with anyone approaching adulthood, Linux was apparently not taking itself seriously enough.
Read more »GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise
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The HURD was meant to be the true kernel at the heart of the GNU operating system. The promise behind the HURD was revolutionary – a set of daemons on top of a microkernel that was intended to surpass the performance of the monolithic kernels of traditional Unix systems and in doing so, give greater security, freedom and flexibility to the users – but it has yet to come down to earth.
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12 of the most interesting, unusual and useful Linux distros
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One of the benefits of open source software that many people are most familiar with is that it's free to download. inux is a classic example of this: there are hundreds (at least!) of different Linux-based operating systems.
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Software patents after Bilski
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Bilski gave us a wonderful opportunity to increase awareness to the harm caused by software patents. More scholars, more developers, more journalists, more politicians, and more patent attorneys than ever before have heard from our community on this issue. What's next?
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Announcing the FOSS LGBT Launch.
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Although still very much in its infancy, FOSS LGBT is my little pet project for the LGBT GNU/Linux and FOSS users to come out of the woodwork and band together to help maintain diversity any acceptance in the FOSS community. The goals are similar to the Ubuntu Women project.
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OpenOffice at the crossroads
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OpenOffice.org is a flagship for free and open source software and a success by most measurements, but there have long been murmurings of discontent among developers. In this feature Richard Hillesley discusses the issues with Michael Meeks who works as an OpenOffice.org developer at Novell
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