The Romanian government is about to spend almost half a billion of Euro on non-free software. The announcement of this deal was just a few days before the Free Software conference eLiberatica in Bucharest.
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Can the United Kingdom and Hungary Still be Sued for Excluding Free Software?
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Does collusion with Microsoft (or favouritism) permit Switzerland- and Quabec-like action to go forward and expand?
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The Battle for ODF Interoperability
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Last year, when I was socializing the idea of creating the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC, I gave a presentation I called "ODF Interoperability: The Price of Success". The observation was that standards that fail never need to deal with interoperability.
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How to: add features to Firefox with Mozilla's new Jetpack
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"Mozilla's new Jetpack project makes it easy to enhance the Firefox web browser by using conventional HTML and JavaScript. In this hands-on tutorial, we introduce you to Jetpack and use it to add a Digg counter to the browser's statusbar..."
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Selective list of Plasma changes for KDE 4.3
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Aaron Seigo has published a list of changes and new features to Plasma, the desktop shell for KDE4, that will be included in KDE4.3. This list is quite long, so I will only try to show the most important changes.
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Installing MyDNS & MyDNSConfig 3 On Fedora 10
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In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS and MyDNSConfig 3 on Fedora 10.
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A Battle Over Deposing Bill Gates in the Novell v. Microsoft Antitrust Litigation
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So, guess what has been happening in the Novell v. Microsoft antitrust litigation? A battle over deposing Bill Gates.
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Five Questions With Dion Almaer - Co-Creator Of Mozilla Bespin
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"Dion Almaer is a name you will find 80,700 results for when searching on Google, so it is clear that people know how Dion Almaer is however, let's kick this interview of with, like the shower scene in a slasher movie, the obligatory first question, who is Dion Almaer? ..." --
Read more »DisplayLink makes Linux source code available... finally!
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The long-burning question on the DisplayLink scene (you know, with its DisplayLink bars and coffee shops, and the annual DisplayLink parade) has been: "When will Linux users be able to get in on some of that video-via-USB action?" Well, it looks like we have an answer for you, penguin-heads.
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Myth Busting: GNU/Linux Takes So Long to Install and Set Up
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Fastest Red Hat Enterprise 5 installation ever (under 10 minutes)
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Install any linux on USB flash drive
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The USB Linux installation enables you to install a portable Linux operating SYSTEM on a flash drive or USB key no larger than your thumb. This portable Linux operating system can then be run from any computer that can boot from a flash device.
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GNUnited Nations 0.3
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"GNUN 0.3 is out, exactly in time for this year's Slavonic Literature and Culture Day (for those who care, of course). As it is becoming a tradition, all of the fancy new features are postponed for subsequent releases.
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"Python Jamendo Audio" or Pyjama is a python / GTK audio streaming application, which is thought to bring the free Jamendo - music on your PC. You can browse through artists and albums, mark your favorite songs and create playlists.
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Fast Forward: VLC 1.0.0 Media Player RC1
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May 13 VideoLAN announced and made ready for download the release candidate of its VLC Media Player 1.0. The new version supports more codecs and provides numerous enhancements.
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Fedora 11 Screenshot Tour
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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.
