We (Bessen and Meurer) received a nice note from Judge Plager letting us know that he cited our book, Patent Failure, in his recent speech where he called for rethinking patent law by returning to its origins in property law.
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Per-user Editor Selection in Ubuntu Intrepid
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When a program in Ubuntu such as crontab -e or dch -i, is used to edit a file, it uses a helper program called sensible-editor (provided by the debianutils package).
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Hadoop: When grownups do open source
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Hadoop is a library for writing distributed data processing programs using the MapReduce framework. It's got all the makings of a blogosphere hit: cluster computing, large datasets, parallelism, algorithms published by Google, and open source.
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The kids are all right with Linux
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School starts early in Georgia. The kids are all back at it. It was on a pre-semester visit to my son’s high school that I got a shock on Friday.
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Youtube-dl - Download videos from Youtube in openSUSE
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youtube-dl is a small free opensource command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. youtube-dl is a platform independent tool that works on UNIX, Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. The latest version of Youtube-dl is 2008.08.09 and requires the Python interpreter, version 2.4 or later.
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The Right Linux Distribution
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One of the challenges that face new users of Linux is in choosing the right distribution for them.
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darcs roadmap
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"Jason Dagit wrote to the list to thank everyone for their support for darcs, and to announce a webpage with a roadmap for future darcs features. Darcs is alive and well!" -- (via Haskell Weekly News)
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Mozilla’s Firefox Wins the “Who’s the Next Open Source Idol” Crown
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GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com), announced today Mozilla’s Firefox was successful in beating out the other three contestants, reigning champion “Tux” the Linux kernel penguin, “Beastie” the BSD demon and the GNU “Gnu” to become the world’s favorite Open Source Idol.
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It wasn’t supposed to be this easy
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At least, that’s what various people have told me. The it to which I refer was connecting my laptop to a wireless printer.
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FullSIX and Mr. Youth LLC May Be Ruining the Web (AstroTurfing) on Microsoft’s Behalf
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A couple of examples of companies that may be trolling/spamming the Web for Microsoft.
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Novell May Promote Silverlight Because It Spreads Mono
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Possible motivation (among several) for Novell's XAML excitement and obedience.
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Comcast Gives Cold-Shoulder To Non-Profit School Running Linux
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Lake City, Florida USA is the home of a rather unconventional school, New Generation. It is a non-profit, private school for students grade 6th through 12th that are at risk of dropping out of school due to educational difficulties. With a maximum population of 60 students, New Generation has an astounding success rate amongst a category of students that most of society has given up on.
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7 Best Linux Distributions for Multimedia Enthusiasts
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Graphic designers, movie editors, music composers, and multimedia addicts have specific needs when it comes to software.
Read more »Richard Stallman lives and works by his principles
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I'm not above engaging in a little shameless name-dropping, especially when I know the dropped name will spark a reaction. So while chatting with attendees at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco last week, I made no secret of the fact that I had interviewed Richard Stallman a few days earlier. I marveled at the awe and admiration on the faces of many of my listeners.
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SplashTop Linux Security Hole Discovered
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Less than two weeks ago we shared that SplashTop Linux was hacked to run off a USB stick, run custom applications, and more importantly having it run on non-certified motherboards (meaning those not sold by ASUS with SplashTop's instant-on Linux environment embedded).
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