Dossia a consortium of companies for "Lifelong Personally-Controlled Health Record" has announced that they will be using the LGPL (a FOSS license) licensed Indivo personally controlled health record software for Boston's Childrens Hospital Information Program (CHIP)
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Can Microsoft Office Withstand the Onslaught of the Freebies?
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OpenOffice and Symphony are compatible with the Open Document Format, an industry standard that allows programs from different developers to read each other's documents and preserve typefaces, paragraphs, indents, tabs, bullets, numbering and so forth. Both free suites also support the proprietary but widely copied formats that Microsoft used in its basic Office products until the 2007 version.
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The search engine providers express their opinions on Censorship
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"...Censorship is not acceptable under any circumstances, especially since it is not appropriate for any enterprise to decide on what a customer is willing to look at or not, for whatever reasons."
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Jews, Gentiles, and the Open Source Definition
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I was read Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews today in the New Testament (Bible) and stumbled across some interesting background, background which resonates today in the open-source community...
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Open Source: TinyMe
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If you are interested in getting that really old machine up and running again, with as little as ~32MB of ram, then there is a shiny new competitor to PuppyLinux and Damn Small Linux: TinyMe.
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The Novell-Microsoft Wheeler Dealers Speak - Updated
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You'll find an MP3 of a conference sponsored by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council on the Novell-Microsoft deal held in Boston on September 26th here, where representatives from Novell and Microsoft defend the patent deal.
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Howto make Ubuntu to read feeds for you
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Akregator is a KDE application for reading online news feeds... [and] ...Festival is a general multi-lingual speech syntheses system and it offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques.
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Virtually speaking, think outside the bochs
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Our cross platform IA-32 emulator friend, Bochs, has a powerful new competitor who offers more than the emulation we have all come to know and dread...err...I meant love.
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First Ubuntu 7.10 ('Gutsy Gibbon') beta arrives
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"...Under the hood, users will find the Linux 2.6.22 kernel powering up both the client (desktop) and server versions. This is supported by GCC 4.1.2 and glibc 2.6..."
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Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon (beta)
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"Let's take a look at the newly released Gutsy Gibbon Beta to see quite how big a splash the Gibbon is going to make."
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Review of Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) new features and changes
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"...As always, new version of Ubuntu is better than previous. But probably this version did the most powerful step forward than any other. I will strongly recommend my friend, who is using another operating system, to settle on the Ubuntu gutsy now, because most of the major barriers for newbies are gone..."
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KompoZer: Recomposing Nvu
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"Why call it «KompoZer» instead of «Nvu»? Because «Nvu and the Nvu logo are trademarks of Linspire Inc.» As Linspire stopped the development of Nvu, there is no legal way to correct any bug in Nvu.
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Rails 2.0: Preview Release
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"Behold, behold, Rails 2.0 is almost here. But before we can slap on the final stamp, we’re going to pass through a couple of trial release phases. The first is this preview release, which allows you to sample the goodies in their almost finished state..."
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Patch for HTML Video element support in Firefox
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"Version 5 of the patch to add Video element support to Firefox is up. This version rewrites a lot of the code to match the pseudocode in the WHATWG specification..."
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2007 Ohio LinuxFest: The Penguin Colony Gathers Again!
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Whew! What a weekend it was at the Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus, Ohio! Between the free (but not Free) beer, having to choose between apparently popular sessions, and the wide variety of booths, the biggest problem was choosing which fun to have.
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