A blistering criticism of Windows' quality and Microsoft's strategy, from a long time Windows (and MAC) user who has now got fed up! This is in a UK major top rank newspaper:
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"Intel's Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the LessWatts.org project, an open source project for saving power on Linux,"
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ErlyBird 0.15.0 Released - An Erlang IDE based on NetBeans
"I'm pleased to announce ErlyBird 0.15.0, an Erlang IDE based on NetBeans. This is a major features release. This release will only provide all-in-one IDE package, which is in size of 17.6M..."
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update on the cost of monoculture in Korea
"Some of you may remember a popular post I had earlier this year called “the cost of monoculture” which looked at the de-facto monopoly that Microsoft Internet Explorer has in South Korea for a number of historical and technical reasons. There has been some movement on this topic recently and I wanted to share this information with everyone..."
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Think Global, Act Local
"...My main point was: I really enjoyed being involved in global and European political processes and activities like the World Summit on the Information Society or European Digital Rights for the last four years, but it is such a difference between having to rely on email lists most of the time and working with real people most of the time."
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Mozilla Opens the Doors to Firefox 3 Alpha 8
"Mozilla today made the next testing version of its upcoming Firefox 3 browser, code-named Gran Paradiso, available for download..."
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Should Mozilla release a Linux?
"Maybe Mozilla’s marketing skills should be harnessed by Linux to turn a wonderful product into something people actually want to use."
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The Long Tail of Licenses
"...This pie chart shows the distribution of the top nine licenses. And as Matt noted, really only the top three (GPL, LGPL, BSD) are significant at all..."
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Help the Miro project
"The Participatory Culture Foundation, makers of Miro, the great open source video player is running a fundraising to ensure the project’s continuity for the rest of the current year. The goal is $50,000 by the end of September..."
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Google Tools for Firefox
Simple Firefox tips, specially with respect to Google.
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Bill Gates tops Forbes rich list
Without GNU/Linux he'd be even richer. This is the REAL reason they hate us so much and continually attack us.
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Open Source Hardware: Birth Of A Long Tail Market?
With open source software becoming a household name, another open source movement that may one day see some fanfare is already taking shape. Open source hardware, which I once thought to be little more than a pipe dream left over from a bygone era, is proving to be a dream that it is very much alive and growing.
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Disk Based Backups With Amanda On Debian Etch
This document describes how to set up Amanda (The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) on Debian Etch. For this tutorial I chose Ubuntu v7.04 as a backup-client.
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Online music distributors: song licensing a painful and expensive process
At a breakout session for the Future of Music Policy Summit in DC this week, online music distributors complained that licensing music for digital retail is still far too complicated, and blamed this complication for the paucity of online distribution outside of the US market.
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Linux Rage Looks Likely
Surely id Software, developers of Doom and Quake, cannot seriosult be thinking about leaving Linux behind? Lead Programmer John Carmack sets the record straight.
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