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Any software with substantial risk to harm your life or liberty must be open source. Some breathalyzer software that people were fighting to see the source code of has been revealed by a a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling and the results are breathtaking.

Bill Gates was interviewed by the BBC’s Money Programme...Reading between the lines, Gates is essentially confessing that he would not have progressed had he and Paul Allen not found the source code.

There's been a suggestion of a shift towards open source in the houses of government in the UK recently, with the Conservative Party promising to promote open source if elected and the incumbent Labour Party releasing the code behind its new carbon footprint calculator under the General Public License.

Today's big story seems to be a piece of code in a Foxconn motherboard that checks what the operating system is and, based on that information, uses a different piece of code for each OS. Unfortunately, the code for Linux seems to cause some major errors, due to an allegedly incorrect implementation of the ACPI standards, as best I understand it.

"Back in March the UK’s Conservative Party vowed to encourage the adoption of open source adoption if elected at the next General Election.* Today the Labour Party did its bit by releasing the code behind its new carbon footprint calculator under the general public license."

This must be the real story. Really. The. Real. Story! :-D

Arguments rage over the importance of adding comments to your code versus the importance of writing clear code that speaks for itself, thereby potentially eliminating the need for comments.

I consider myself to be a geek. Linux and geeks have a long history together. So, naturally there are a bunch of geeky things available for Linux. In this case, I’m talking about screensavers. I was looking for a screensaver that would show me something really cool about my system.