The Free Software Foundation's DefectiveByDesign.org campaign, in cooperation with prominent authors, journalists, and librarians, has launched a petition against the Amazon Kindle's use of digital restrictions management (DRM).
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More Countries Move to ODF, But What About Portugal?
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OpenDocument Format (ODF) is increasingly adopted and the latest dealings in Portugal give reasons for concern
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Does Microsoft Accuse Free Software of Fraud?
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Adding Document templates to Nautilus right click menu
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Ubuntu distribution uses nautilus as the default file manager. You can tweak nautilus to increase your productivity. Here is one hack which I discovered recently. When you right click on the desktop or inside your file manager you get a menu as shown in the screen shot below.
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Gaze at the stars with Stellarium
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We have had lots of programs featured here on Dedoimedo, but we never really focused on educational software. Until today. I'm going to present Stellarium, a beautiful, pleasant, addictive open-source planetarium software.
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Some backpedaling on Debian freeze dates
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Buried deep within a "bits from the release team" posting to the Debian development community is this text: "Based on feedback of the community we are revisiting the decision to freeze December 2009."
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Skype shutdown: where are free software and free protocols?
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Free software is definitely going strong in some areas, especially in the server market. However, there are other areas where free software and free protocols have failed. Internet based voice and video communication is one of those areas.
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Using GNU/Linux as a leverage to get discounts from Microsoft.
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The Firefox Petra trip!
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Hello everyone!
So, as the name implies, we the Firefox fans in Jordan (specifically Jordan University for Science and Technology) have arranged a nice and humble gift for the FOSS society as a whole, and the Firefox community in specific..
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CentOS is NOT Dying, It’s Just Bad Reporting
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Media FUD about CentOS is refuted. Boycott Novell runs on a CentOS server, so it is painful to watch The Register and some other publications spreading FUD about the project.
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Linuxtracker under attack!
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I don't know if you've noticed or not, but Linuxtracker has been up and down more than your favorite roller coaster over the past week or so. The unsteadiness of the site is due to a number of DDOS attacks being sent against the server
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Boot On BTRFS With Debian
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This tutorial will explain you how to boot from a BTRFS filesystem with kernel 2.6.31-RC4 and BTRFS 0.19. BTRFS is a new filesystem with some really interesting features like online defragmenting and snapshots. BTRFS is an experimental filesystem, use at your own risk. The kernel used is also experimental.
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The Slime About ARM and Android
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A compilation of new factors that stifle adoption of Linux on the low end
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to Dump Novell
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The ACCC is decommissioning Novell. NOVELL relies heavily on its legacy systems (for profit and network effect), so in order for a boycott of Novell to be effective, more stories like this one will be required.
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Time to Drop the Word “Zealot” from Software Debates?
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If software is applied science and engineering, then comparing it to politics and religion should be deemed inappropriate
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom 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 RusselAbout 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.
