Redmond forced to provide free, irrevocable patent pledge to non-commercial open source..
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Where In The World Are Emacs Users?
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"Every few months you see a thread on the emacs news groups polling to see the age or occupation of the users. Recently someone sent out a link on gnu.emacs.help to a site called BuddyMapping with a map for Emacs Users..."
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New Desktop Face-Off: Gnome 2.20 vs KDE 3.5
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With the new features that Gnome and KDE (K Desktop Environment) are adding, each desktop environment is challenging the other for a larger share of the market. .. In this article I will briefly talk about the new features of both Gnome and KDE, and then look at some similarities and important differences between the two desktop environments.
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Google funds hold Firefox fate (for sure)
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This week, the Mozilla Foundation released its 2006 financial statement, telling the world that Google provides 85 per cent of the revenue for the foundation and its Mozilla Corp. subsidiary.
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Red Hat exec: Open Source is mature, disruptive and innovative
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Craig Nielsen was one of eight speakers at the WA open source symposium earlier this month. He talks about where the industry stands and where it is rapidly heading.
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10 flaws in Ubuntu 7.10
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So I have been running Ubuntu 7.10 on one of my desktops for a while now, and I have to say that generally speaking I’m satisfied with what it has to offer. But with that said I have experienced a couple of minor things that are missing or that I feel don’t work as I want.
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I’m typing this on a Classmate PC
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My Classmate PCs arrived today from Intel and I finally had time to break them out tonight. You can find an image gallery here with first looks and some screenshots. I’ll be writing several more detailed posts over the next few days as I actually live with these machines for a while, but I wanted to give my initial impressions to accompany the pictures.
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Forbes columnist Dan Lyons says he really likes Linux, no matter what anyone else says (video)
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During a session at the 2007 Online News Association conference in Toronto, Canada, I had a chance to point my video camera at Forbes columnist (and Fake Steve Jobs blogger) Dan Lyons.
Read more »Start-up warms up personal robots
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A Silicon Valley start-up backed by an early Google employee is taking a novel approach to building a business for domestic robots and driverless vehicles... [they plan] to make [their] robotics software open source.
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20 Tips to Tweak Your Tabs
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"You owe a lot to your tabs in Firefox. Without them you would have a desktop filled with clutter. So why not do something nice for your tabs and give them a few tweaks? ..."
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Illustrating 3D looking objects in Inkscape (Basic)
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A tutorial on drawing 3D looking simple objects with Inkscape. Pretty simple.
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GPLv3, bug fixes, and complexity
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"After an interesting free software licensing event in Helsinki yesterday, I got thinking about licence complexity. At the conference, people had two types of questions (a) Why didn't GPLv3 additionally solve X problem? and (b) Why is it so long? ..."
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Free Software Advocate Richard Stallman at Marlboro
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"Marlboro, VT - Acclaimed software freedom activist Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) will discuss “Copyright VS. Community” in Marlboro College’s Ragle Hall on Thursday, April 26 at 7 p.m."
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Tips for a more secure OpenSSH server
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Many years ago, people used telnet to connect to their machines, but the whole communication between their computers and the remote machine was sent in clear text (unencrypted), making sensitive information available to anyone who knew how to monitor their traffic. They had to find a way to prevent this. So SSH was born.
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Prism: Integrate Web Applications into the User’s Desktop Experience
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"Today Mozilla Labs is announcing a new experiment called Prism. Over the last few months I’ve had a chance to contribute to many of the initial user facing design aspects of Prism, and this is one of the most exciting labs projects I’ve had a chance to work on so far at Mozilla...
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