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The ProcessMaker developers meet with Richard Stallman

http://news.processmaker.com

"...it was a great honor for Colosa, the company which develops ProcessMaker, to be an official sponsor of Richard Stallman’s visit to Bolivia. Despite his busy schedule and his many commitments, RMS makes a point to visit even tiny countries like Bolivia to promote his message of freedom..."

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Why didn't Microsoft tell us about i4i's patent litigation during the OOXML standards push?

http://www.groklaw.net

I have a question for Microsoft. Why didn't they tell us about this i4i patent litigation during the OOXML ISO process? Didn't we need to know?

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[e|c]tags With Emacs and Vim

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The exuberant-ctags package offers some of the source code navigation features of an IDE within Emacs or Vim.

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Defective By Design: Kindle Discourages Readers

http://www.readwriteweb.com

"The Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design campaign just added the Amazon Kindle to its list of DRM-related offenders. The organization started a petition against Amazon for restricting readers' access to their own books and effectively discouraging reading options..."

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Working with Ogg Theora and the video tag

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The Free Software Foundation's Holmes Wilson is just back from Berlin, where he participated in the Ogg Theora book sprint put on by FLOSS Manuals. Here is a broad look at Ogg Theora and how it fits into the push for free formats: where we're winning, what works, and what could be improved.

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Developing Nations May Reuse More Electronics Than Thought

http://www.greenercomputing.com

What the researchers found suggests that, at least in one country, imported electronics are not immediately destined for meltdown or other polluting and poisonous dismantling practices, as has been shown in China and other countries...

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Nano Text Editor Course

http://beginlinux.com

Nano is an alternative text editor. The key sequences in nano are entered using the keyboard, making nano a "modeless" editor, unlike vim. With the exception of Control and Meta key sequences, all the keys will enter text into the file being edited. You do not have to switch modes at all. In addition, nano provides some text aids. The 2.0 release enhances the usability and features of nano.

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The status of Intel video drivers for Linux (and what it means for your favorite

http://distrowatch.com

Anyone who reads the Linux technical press, Linux blogs, or the comments section of DistroWatch Weekly knows that there has been a lot of discussion, dissatisfaction, and even anger over the state of Intel video drivers for Linux.

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Kernel Log - Coming in 2.6.31 - Part 3: Storage and file systems

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The Kernel Log is taking the opportunity to continue its series of reports on the major changes in Linux 2.6.31 compared to the current 2.6.30 kernel with an overview of storage and file systems.

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New developments, details in Microsoft Word ban

http://www.itwire.com

Microsoft has attempted to block the court-ordered end to sales of Microsoft Word over a patent dispute. But court papers show that company officers were aware of the patent when they took the infringing action.

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Pidgin 2.6.0 Adds Voice and Video (Download Ubuntu .deb)

http://webupd8.blogspot.com

This release includes major changes and improvements:

Voice and Video support - Thanks to Mike Ruprecht and his Summer of Code project from 2008, libpurple now has a voice and video framework that can be used to add these features to our protocol plugins.

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Wikipedia notches up 3 million English-language articles

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Free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is celebrating a new milestone – an article on Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen added on Monday took the English-language version of Wikipedia over the three million article mark. The encyclopaedia, which first went online in January 2001, now contains a total of more than 13 million articles in more than 200 languages.

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Howto: do 'page back' instead of 'page up' when backspace is pressed in Mozilla Firefox

http://blog.dipinkrishna.info

In Firefox, when you press 'Backspace' the default action performed is 'Page up'.
You can change this to 'Previous page', just follow this for that:

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No easy fix for Word legal woes

http://blogs.computerworld.com

...when I see that one attorney thinks there's an "easy technical work-around" for Microsoft's patent violation in Word, my alarm bells go off. There is no easy fix here, and, short of waving the white-flag, Microsoft may very well have to stop selling Word, and thus Microsoft Office, this fall.

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How Bill Gates Denied Access to Office File Format Documentation to Stifle Competition

http://boycottnovell.com

Microsoft's former chairman shows the company's attitude towards accessible file formats and competition

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Anybody up to writing good directory software?

Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David Jonathan

From the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).

Is better education the key to finding better software?

Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward Russel

About Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.

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