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"Miro is open like the internet." [and Free as in Freedom!] "Joost works like a cable company with DRM. Which vison of web video do you want to see prevail, proprietary or open?" [or Free as in Freedom!] "Do you want corporations to decide what you watch?"
"By now many of you might have heard of Joost, the extremely hyped “Internet-TV”-application by Niklas Zenström, author of Skype and Kazaa. What you might not know is that there is a free open-source alternative. It’s name.. is Miro..."
This past week at the Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View, we talked to user experience design expert Alex Faaborg about the Firefox 3 visual refresh. He shared some insights about the interface design process and talked about some of Mozilla's goals for refining the look and feel of the Firefox user experience.
Just over one year after the release of OpenOffice 3.0, OpenOffice.org (OOo) project developer Joost Andrae has announced that the free office suite has been downloaded more than one hundred million times since the launch of version 3.0. OpenOffice is an open source office suite from Sun Microsystems for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems.
our creative friends, artists, musicians, animators, audio engineers, video editors and suchlike ......... can have a Linux experience specifically tailored for them, an experience set up to enable them to enjoy a diverse and rich experience right out of the box without the need for complex setup steps or in depth system knowledge.
Companies like Apple and Microsoft are starting to create a web of products that are all designed to work really well with each other...What these “webs” mean is that you can buy into the “Apple experience” or the “Microsoft experience.” The question in my mind was, what is the “open-source experience.”
Today we are announcing the project release of MeeGo v1.0. This release provides developers with a stable core foundation for application development and a rich user experience for Netbooks. The MeeGo Netbook user experience is the first to appear, with the development of the MeeGo Handset user experience moving to the open in June.