The Finnish creator of Linux says open-source software isn't really an anti-Microsoft movement; it's just a better model for getting the job done.
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Ubuntu has an identity crisis
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IMAGINE YOU'RE HEAD OF IT at a large company. You're standing in front of the board explaining why you want to switch from Windows to Linux. You have all the technical benefits and cost savings up on the screen. Everything's going swimmingly until you let slip that you want this bunch of middle-aged fogeys in sober suits to bet the farm on something called Gutsy Gibbon.
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L1NUX car license/number plate for sale on eBay.uk
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At time of posting bids are at £5,300.00 and still haven't met the reserve price. Where is the "GNU.Linux" license plate I hear you ask?
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GPL v3: Was It Worth the Effort?
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A survey conducted by Evans Data shows that open source developers are not adopting the third version of the GNU General Public License as quickly as some may have hoped. Those who remain reluctant to incorporate GPL v3 cited reasons ranging from questions of its enforceability in court to disagreements with some of its new components.
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Mozilla 2 platform status
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"This post is about the work people are doing on Mozilla 2 and what it means..."
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eLiberatica 2008 - The Romanian's biggest Open Source event
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Preparations for the biggest Open Source event of the year in Romania has just begun. Join us!
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WNotes: Creating a Writer/MySQL web application
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While OpenOffice.org is first and foremost a desktop office suite, it has a few powerful features that allow you to create some nifty solutions. For example, the Base application supports different database engines such as MySQL, and it can connect and manage remote databases.
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Gobuntu
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"This weekend I upgraded my machine to Gobuntu, the entirely-free-software (but see below) version of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. Since I’m specifically named as the use case (!) it seemed like the right thing to do. First, the good news: it all seems to be working fine.
Read more »[atompub] End of a Chapter
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"...If everyone is going to be willing to code their clients to work with every different set of publishing-system idiosyncrasies, then Atompub will have been a waste of time. But that doesn’t seem plausible to me."
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Book review: Learning jQuery
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"One complaint of just about any book that attempts to teach a new language or technology is a presumed level of expertise by the authors. I found it refreshing that in Learning jQuery the book begins… well, at the beginning, and increases in difficulty along with the concepts. It gives designers and entry-level interface developers the opportunity to come up to speed at an acceptable pace..."
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EU tells open source to start paying MS patent tax
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"Brussels, 23 October 2007 -- EU Commissioner Kroes' deal with Microsoft creates real dangers to Europe's growing open source economy, warns the FFII. Using patent licenses that exclude businesses, the software monopolist has turned the EU competition ruling into a victory, and now gets implicit support from the Commission to proceed aggressively against its competitors."
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Mozilla by the numbers
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Want to know how much money free software can make? Look no further than Mozilla and its financial statement for 2006.
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Rails On Emacs (in english)
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"It is minor mode for editing Ruby On Rails code with Emacs. This minor mode makes your work much easier and user friendly..."
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BitTorrent Gets More Social with AllPeers
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"AllPeers is a social BitTorrent extension for Firefox. The ease of use and the appealing user interface make it especially popular among people who are relatively new to BitTorrent, but why do we need a social BitTorrent client?"
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ECMAScript 4 Overview Paper
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"An overview paper describing the ECMAScript 4 language features was announced on the es4-discuss mailing list..."
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