Highlights from FISL10 in Porto Alegre, Brazil including interviews with Chris DiBona and Michael Tiemann, using Open Source to make things out of computer junk, and President Lula da Silva speaks out on free software ...
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Can Microsoft Ever Be Accepted by the Linux Community?
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Once, the CEO of the company for which I worked had a bright idea. He would sponsor a young open source software coder for the summer, and, in return, the coder would assign the copyright of his application to the company.
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Trademarks - The dinosaur in the room
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The issue is trust, and trust goes both ways. Users and developers, who are often involved on a purely voluntary basis, are resistant to the paternalism that is implicit in a Trademark License Agreement, and some view it as a surreptitious method for suppressing criticism
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Open Source in Emerging Markets: a Few Points of Statistical Comparison
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Developers in countries like China, India, and Brazil are much younger than are programmers in other parts of the world. And they're more likely to use open source.
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De-Programming Windows Refugees
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Now Linux is the easiest of all operating systems to use, and yet anguish abounds in the land. Too hard! Too hard! Make it easier! What the heck happened?
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GNOME Foundation releases first quarterly report
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The GNOME Foundation, which coordinates development of the GNOME platform, has announced the release of its first quarterly report.
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Live video stream of LinuxCon 2009 highlights
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The highlights of LinuxCon 2009, a conference organised by the Linux Foundation, will be available as a live video stream using the open CODECs Ogg / Theora, viewed via a Web browser Java applet. Alternatively, they may be viewed via an embedded player such as RealPlayer, MPlayer or the Windows Media Player.
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Linus is always right
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Linus is always right: SVN users are stupids, GIT is superior. I am now starting to move my personal projects from SVN to GIT.
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Sexism is Alive and Well in Linux/FOSS
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The official mythology of FOSS states that it is a meritocracy, and that only the code matters. The reality is not nearly so happy. On September 19th, the GNOME Foundation and the Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on women in FOSS. Will it do any good? How much of a problem is it really?
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Novell: BrainShare Returns in 2010
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After a one-year hiatus, Novell plans to host major BrainShare conferences in North America and EMEA in 2010. For SUSE Linux partners and customers, Novell's BrainShare events offer an important counter-balance to Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Here's why.
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Free Open Source Ajaxed MySQL Table Editor, easy to create admin pages.
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Mysql Ajax Table Editor is an open source web application for easily editing MySQL tables & creating admin pages almost instantly.
Besides the standard “add, edit, copy, delete, view” functionality, records can be paged, searched & exported to CSV.
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How GNOME and KDE spend their money
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Quarterly reports are the stuff of business. In most people's minds, they are as far from the spirit of free and open source software (FOSS) as anyone can imagine. All the same, as non-profit organizations, many FOSS projects issue them. And while your first reaction may be to avoid quarterly reports, they can give some insights into projects, especially if you read between the lines.
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It's All Go For Open Source Events
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Open Source events tend to be rather spread out across the year. linux.conf.au starts things off in January, followed by Linux Journal staff favorite Penguicon in May, two of the major yearly conferences in July, the Linux Symposium and O'Reilly's OSCON, the new but integral Linux Plumber's Conference in September, and wrapping it all up, the Linux Congress in October.
Read more »Intel talks Linux, netbooks and rivalry with ARM
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Imad Sousou is the director of Intel's Open Source Technology Centre, which is behind the Moblin project — aimed at providing optimised Linux technology for netbooks and mobile internet devices. On Wednesday, ZDNet UK caught up with Sousou.
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Interviews: OpenSUSE's Andreas Jaeger
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With the OpenSUSE Conference in full swing, we caught up with Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager for the distro. Read on for his opinions on the new eight month release process, the controversial KDE-as-default decision, and how distros can work better together.
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