A company's decision to contribute to open source projects is usually business-driven. This article offers a review of the top reasons that can influence your company to contribute source code to open source or to start new open source projects.
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Awesome Ubuntu/Linux Apps you might not know about V2
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Seventeen apps for ubuntu that you may not know about, with little screenshots.
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regexxer - GUI search and replace tool
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regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try.
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My Fabulous Geek Career
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I consider myself to be a born geek. Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to do cool geek things...
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Preventing Brute Force Attacks With BlockHosts On Debian Etch
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In this article I will show how to install and configure BlockHosts on a Debian Etch system. BlockHosts is a Python tool that observes login attempts to various services, e.g. SSH, FTP, etc., and if it finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address or host, it stops further login attempts from that IP address/host.
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Why “open source” misses the point of software freedom
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" The idea of open source is that allowing users to change and redistribute the software will make it more powerful and reliable. But this is not guaranteed. Developers of proprietary software are not necessarily incompetent. Sometimes they produce a program which is powerful and reliable, even though it does not respect the users’ freedom.
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The Free Software Definition
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"We maintain this free software definition to show clearly what must be true about a particular software program for it to be considered free software..."
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Kosmix releases Google GFS workalike 'KFS' as open source
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Kosmos Distributed File System: New open source distributed filesystem similar to Google’s GFS.
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SELF News September 2007
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"...SELF aims to be the central platform with high quality educational and training materials about Free Software and Open Standards. It is based on world-class Free Software technologies that permit both reading and publishing free materials, and is driven by a worldwide community."
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Open source game: Building transport empire with OpenTTD
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Written in 1995 by British computer game developer Chris Sawyer, Transport Tycoon Deluxe to this day has thousands of fans around the world. Although the game’s development ceased a long time ago, Transport Tycoon Deluxe continues to live and evolve through OpenTTD, an open-source version of the original game.
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Miro (Democracy Player) for Linux Reviewed
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"I have watched Miro (formally known as Democracy Player) grow and mature over the last few years, and I have to admit, it's become quite the addition to my Linux desktop. But how are the users reacting to the name change, and are they offering the content that users are into?
Read more »Opinions seem to change once you’re hired by a large company
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"...with some people (this applies to a minority) who start working for large companies and web browser manufacturers you can suddenly experience them doing a 180 degree turn with their opinions..."
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Night of the Living Vista
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"Today, I think of Vista as the zombie operating system. It stumbles around, and from a distance you might think it's alive, but close up it's the walking dead..."
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New payment service now works with Linux
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South African payment gateway service, MyGate, have developed a service that allows e-commerce merchants running Linux to access credit card security services that were developed for Windows platforms.
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Enable Automatic Time Synchronization In Ubuntu And Kubuntu
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If you are running KDE in Kubuntu or Gnome in Ubuntu, you can easily set up the clock to synchronize the time to any time source on the Internet. Doing so will keep the time on your System accurate and keep you from missing any appointments!
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