One of the goals of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is to become a center for education in free and open source software (FOSS) legal issues.
Read more »Inside the SFLC's "Practical Guide to GPL Compliance"
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Can the of Scale of Linux Adoption Ever be Gauged?
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Determining usage and growth of Free software has always been a challenge. For over a decade, arguments have been held — sometimes flamewars — whose central point was the usage scale of software which is freely distributed. While market share can be estimated based on the number of sales. Free software usually replaces existing software that is proprietary, i.e.
Read more »Forced Windows Purchases: A Decade Later, Still No Improvement
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A look back at the little progress which has been made regarding this PC bundling issue.
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Who Ever Said Novell Was a “Prince”?
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Rebuttal to disinformation in the press (regarding Novell and Microsoft).
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Four Twitter clients for Linux
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Twitter is a social networking platform that keeps you in conversation by allowing you and your friends to follow each others' updates. The service lets users post and read 140-character updates, called tweets. With Twitter, you can do social networking on the fly, from your mobile phone or at your desktop, from a Web browser or a Twitter client.
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Routes to Innovation: Innovation by Publicity
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Microsoft's history of stealing other people's ideas and then mass-marketing them only to claim "innovation".
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Test Drive Adobe Flash Player 10 RC in Ubuntu
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Earlier this month Adobe released a Flash Player 10 release candidate (10.0.0.569) for Linux. Over the previous betas, this release has improvement performance, fixes bugs, better V4L2 camera input, and fixes fullscreen video playback.
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Voice Your Support for the World Day Against Software Patents
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Call for help with the "World Day Against Software Patents" campaign.
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CNET Hypnosis: Only the Poor People of Brazil Might Want GNU/Linux
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New examples of what seems like PR moves; more IDC deception.
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Some New (But Very Old) Microsoft AstroTurfing Examples
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Examples from the past showing Microsoft's tactics on the Web.
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The paradox of FOSS projects supporting Windows
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FOSS applications for Windows don't seem to get the same respect and support that their Linux counterparts do, even when they are genuine 100% GPL or BSD or whatever a person's favorite license is. Some say they are good introductions to FOSS; some think they're tainted and nasty and prop up the evil monopolist.
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Anatomy of Linux dynamic libraries
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Dynamically linked shared libraries are an important aspect of GNU/Linux®. They allow executables to dynamically access external functionality at run time and thereby reduce their overall memory footprint (by bringing functionality in when it's needed).
Read more »Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit
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The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls “active attacks” against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys.
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Software connects Linux MIDs to PC media
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Orb Networks has joined a growing list of video broadcast service providers supporting Intel-based mobile Internet devices (MIDs). The Orb "MyCast" software and service lets users stream PC-based multimedia over local or wide-area networks to a variety of mobile devices, including Atom-based MIDs, Orb says.
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More Funny Unix, Linux and Mainframe Error Messages
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The hits just keep on coming. More Unix, Linux, Mainframe, etc, messages that defy common sense ;)
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