Politicians receive personal contributions too... even from Microsoft people, not just from the company as an entity
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Standards Conference ‘Stacked’ by Microsoft & Cronies, Cancelled
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Another conference is cancelled, along with Microsoft's strong attendance there
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Alleged Israeli GPL violation settled out of court
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After two years of litigation, the parties involved in an Israeli law suit that centered on the validity of the GNU General Public License (GPL) have settled out of court. The result leaves the legal status of the GPL in Israel unresolved.
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Where to search Ubuntu Personal Package Archives (PPA)
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Personal Package Archives (PPA) allow you to upload Ubuntu source packages to be built and published as an apt repository by Launchpad.
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Open source identity: Free Telephony Project founder David Rowe
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Move over proprietary telephony systems. Australian engineer David Rowe started the Free Telephony Project three years ago to build an affordable IP-PABX system out of free hardware and software.
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Dropbox For Linux is Now Available!
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It's here! Dropbox for Linux is finally available and ready for your everyday use. Whats great about this service is you get 2 gb of space and it creates a folder in your home directory ~/Dropbox
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Pulling Info From IMDB Part One: Goofy Movie Titles
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An experiment in what can happen when movie titles get all mixed up and maxxed out :)
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3 Best Video Players for Linux: SMPlayer, VLC and Kaffeine
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SMPlayer is built in Qt4 and it uses the MPlayer engine for video playback. It's one of the most powerful applications out there for watching DVDs, and it supports plenty formats like AVI, MKV, MPG, FLV.
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From XMMS to Amarok
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As odd as it sounds, I never would have expected myself to be making the jump to Amarok.
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Newbies: 7 Useful Ubuntu Tips
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In this article we’re going to look at 7 useful tips to make your Ubuntu experience even better. This is particularly aimed at newbies, and shows you step by step how to tweak Ubuntu with some must have extras.
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Linux Gaming Console Coming in November
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Envizions Computer Entertainment announced recently that the Linux-based EVO gaming console will be available for sale November 18.
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Comix - User firendly Comic book & general image viewer in openSUSE
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Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR or tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed) as well as plain image files.
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Open-source DRM ready to take on Apple and Microsoft
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An open-source digital rights management (DRM) scheme says it's ready to supplant Apple and Microsoft as the world's leading copy protection solution.
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Are vendors vital to open source?
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Without Red Hat there is still Linux. The code still lives and the Linux Foundation says it is worth $10.8 billion.
All of which leads to a profound and interesting question, namely are vendors vital to open source?
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The compelling economics of Linux: What it means for the future of computing
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Today the Linux Foundation issued a report looking at the value of the Linux platform in terms of code. This was an update of a 2002 study that estimated the value then at $1.2 Billion. Today’s value: $10.8 Billion.
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