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Read more »Did Microsoft Bribe Its Way Into Kicking GNU/Linux out of South African Schools?
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Fresh vs. rotten ext3
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Did you ever hear sentences like “Linux/Unix filesystems are superior, to stuff like NTFS, let alone FAT32 - you don’t even need a defragmentation tool.”?
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The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits
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"In one of RIAA’s high profile cases the Free Software Foundation backed defendant Joel Tenenbaum, much to the dislike of the music industry lobby. John Sullivan, Operations Manager at the FSF explains in a guest post why they think these cases impact not just music, but also free software and its technology..."
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Call for Participation: Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit
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"The Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) is a meeting place for social change, focused on the future of free software and free society.
Read more »David Bollier's unconventional wisdom (you can hear some tonight)
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"It's no secret that everything’s up for grabs in this brave new and rapidly unfurling world, but journalist/media critic/activist David Bollier has found himself ahead of the curve by going back to basics.In his new book 'Viral Spiral: How The Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own', Bollier expounds on the virtues of the "free culture" movement of the commons, which can best be descri
Read more »Red Hat Makes its Position Patent
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Six months ago I noted that the European Patent Office had embarked upon a fairly abstruse process:
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Argentine Professor Attacked for Sharing Philosophy Classics Online
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A French publishing company, Les Editions de Minuit, has brought criminal charges against a professor in Argentina for making Spanish translations of classic works of philosophy available for free on the internet, including Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida.
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Darcs Joins Software Freedom Conservancy
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"Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy welcome the Darcs project as its newest member. Darcs joins 15 other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects..."
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Linux Foundation relaunches Linux.com
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Earlier this year the Linux Foundation took over control of Linux.com, which had previously been maintained by SourceForge. This week the Linux Foundation unveiled the new face of Linux.com.
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Wall Street Opens Doors to Open Source Technologies
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With the financial meltdown eroding IT budgets, large investment banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions have been forced to rethink their attitudes toward open source technology.
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Linux's position in cloud computing efforts
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Clouds are such big Linux news these days that, in the physical world, it would be raining by now. Or at least heavily overcast.
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Libre.fm Is Gathering Speed
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Libre.fm is a free network service aimed at replacing Last.fm initially but also going beyond that to develop unique features of it’s own. The service is still in alpha at the moment but it’s developing really quickly.
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Announcing BrDesktop for the Brazilian home desktop user
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BrDesktop is a selection of *official* Debian GNU/Linux packages. A Pure Blend, pre-configured and targeted for Brazilian Debian GNU/Linux home desktop users.
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Tor on Ubuntu 9.04
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Time to get Tor working on Ubuntu Jaunty, the new release. I’ll be doing this on a pretty recent install. If you don’t know what Tor is, let me explain.
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The X Window innovation: welcome to the new Xorg
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Over time, many people have complained about the X Window system; the X Window system, or Xorg in its current most popular implementation, is the layer between applications and the graphics adapter.
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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.
