If you think I'm going to talk about the moral, legal, financial, and political implications of using software not according to various license agreements set by money-loving companies, you're wrong. Today, we will learn about little known software designed by code pirates.
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OpenSUSE Adds to Novell’s Hostility Towards the Free Software Foundation
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OpenSUSE community manager disagrees with RMS-style philosophy in practice
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Terminology Wars I: Linux versus GNU/Linux
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I initially wrote most of this as a response to a comment on Groklaw, where PJ is busily carrying water to assist in running down an active member of the open source community as a "traitor to the free software movement". The comment began by stating that the FSF had never "ordered" anyone to use the terminology "GNU/Linux" (as if they could), and continued,
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Free and Open Source Software, dogmatism and the real world.
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One of the best things that ever happened to the world of computing was the advent of Free and Open Source software. However, there does not seem, at least from where I stand, to be any proper definition of who FOSS defines as its target audience.
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The Pyramids and the Bazaar
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Eric Raymond's software bazaar is a fantasy. What really goes on in open source projects has nothing to do with his "great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches".
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The FOSS image is important
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We live in a world where, unfortunately, image is everything to the general public, enterprise business and the media. This image provides the reputation from which the validity of the product, person or business is judged. A good image is very hard to achieve yet can be very easily destroyed by a single act, person or slanderous comment.
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Open source – no question of quality
http://www.computerworlduk.com –
I am probably biting off more than I can chew, within a brief blog post here. But, I wanted to capture a couple of points relative to the notion of the quality of open source software (OSS).
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Open Source Should Be Open to All
http://www.linux-magazine.com –
If today you can convince someone to use some Open-Source software package – a document creator, a presentation tool, a web browser, or even a web server – you give yourself the wedge to start pushing for an Open Source operating system.
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Google unlocks data restrictions, announces Data Liberation efforts
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Google is unlocking its data door by launching a new initiative called Data Liberation, an approach to engineering that allows users to move their data - be it pictures, mail or documents - from Google’s servers to any other location.
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Copyright's Creative Disincentive
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The argument seems simple... without a system of strong copyright, creators will have no incentive to create...the facts so resoundingly, enthusiastically, thumpingly dispute that conclusion tells us that the syllogism is wrong. Indeed, the facts say the syllogism has it backwards. Current copyright laws are holding back the innovation they were intended to spur.
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Linux User-Friendliness
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From OSNews - A reader asks: Why is Linux still not as user friendly as the two other main OSes with all the people developing for Linux? Is it because it is mainly developed by geeks? My initial feeling when reading this question was that it was kind of a throwaway, kind of a slam in disguise as a genuine question. But the more I thought about it, the more intrigued I felt.
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From Cloud Computing to Freedom-based Utility Computing
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"Cloud Computing risks undoing the gains of the free software movement in ‘owning and controlling our own code‘. Thomas Lord examines the potential for achieving software and user freedom in the world of ‘cloud computing’ (a concept he rejects, preferring ‘utility computing’, see below).
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Big-Name Distro Disenchantment
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The hard work these distros are doing to clarify the legal position of their product isn’t even enough, because the Free Software Foundation doesn’t recognise them as free (as in freedom, not cost). So why bother?
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Koha and Liblime and the letter and the Spirit of Opensource
http://www.librarian.net –
Koha is a FLOSS software project writing and maintaining an Library management system. One of the support and development companies appears to be heading a direction that will see them withholding code from the wider community.
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Linux and Free/Open Source Software: Why Code For Free? (part 1)
http://www.linuxplanet.com –
How can anyone make a living writing Free software? Why should a coder work for free? These questions, and others, are answered in this two-part series. Today we learn why Free and Open Source software are very important even to end users who are not coders.
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