Marketing maven Tara Hunt has written a book, entitled "The Whuffie Factor", which can help Free Open Source Software communities increase their reach into the mainstream newbie world. Hunt's book is particularly useful for FOSS communities because it gives practical advice on how to maximize an org's impact on a limited budget.
Read more »Microsoft sends mixed patent message
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In the wake of the Open Invention Network challenge to Microsoft’s patents related to Linux, the company’s good cop-bad cop routine has gone into overdrive.
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GNU IceCat 3.0.10-g1 released
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"I am pleased to announce the new version of the GNU IceCat web browser. GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox browser. This new version includes all the changes made in Firefox 3.0.10 ..."
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Real Environment Activists Don’t Use Windows
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Activists have their computers intruded by predatory multinationals
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3 Tweaks to Speed Up Firefox 3 and Free Memory
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Sometimes Firefox can become a real memory hog, especially if you keep it running for hours and have many tabs opened. In order to make Firefox a little more responsive and save some RAM memory, here are three tweaks I bumped into over time. Notice that most of these tips only free up some memory at the expense of (usually) loading speed for web pages.
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Gnote Supports 6 More Languages, Does Not Support C#
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FOR those who are looking to detoxify their GNU/Linux distribution which contains GNOME, Gnote 0.3.0 is finally out.
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Remastering ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
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REMIX now ccFree
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"The Bloomsbury Academic Press version of REMIX is now Creative Commons licensed. You can download the book on the Bloomsbury Academic page..."
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Morse Code
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"Yesterday was the 218th anniversary of the birth of Samuel F. B. Morse, who invented the telegraph. We present this simple exercise in his honor..."
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Alien Arena 2009 Screenshots
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The Alien Arena development team has released 16 screenshots of the upcoming Alien Arena 2009. This release features “some very significant advances” in the game engine and new arenas, and player models. It’s also mentioned that they are planning to release the new version in June.
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Blog Post Spinning: Instant Genius Or Just On-Demand Insanity?
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If you can't read this, you either speak a different language than me or this lead isn't spun properly ;)
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Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!
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"Lisp is a uniquely powerful programming language that, despite its academic reputation, is actually very practical. Land of Lisp brings the language into the real world, teaching Lisp by showing you how to write several complete Lisp-based games, including a text adventure, an evolution simulation, and a robot battle.
Read more »Nordic Free Software Award - nomination is open
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"The nominating period for The Nordic Free Software Award begins May 1 [...] The Nordic Free Software Award given to people, projects or organisations in the Nordic countries that have made a prominent contribution to the advancement of Free Software..."
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Microsoft Interoperability Crushed by the TomTom Case
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Microsoft slammed for using software patents against interoperability, the OIN responds too late
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Microsoft Wants to Control GNU/Linux, Novell and Xandros Help with This
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A little more on Mono, but mostly news about Microsoft's management of UNIX and Linux
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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.
