"...In fact, an inventory of Apple's remaining DRM armory makes it vividly clear that DRM (backed by the DMCA) is almost always about eliminating legitimate competition, hobbling interoperability, and creating de facto technology monopolies: ..."
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Linux installation fistival in JUST..
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Yesterday was a great day. We, the open source group at Jordan University of Science and Technology were holding a Linux installation festival to teach people about FOSS and to show them the path to their freedom. There were four distros: Ubuntu 8.10, openSUSE 11.1, Mandriva, Fedora 10 and PC BSD.
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Podcast 42 Daniel Robbins (Funtoo)
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"Interview with Daniel Robbins. Founder of Gentoo Linux and his current project is Funtoo..."
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Understanding Perl Variable References On Linux And Unix
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If you know a guy who knows a guy, you already understand this concept ;)
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Apple announces all music on iTunes to go DRM-free - no word on movies, TV shows, games, audiobooks
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"...We must continue to put pressure on Apple. That means continuing to boycott all DRM-content on iTunes, including the iPhone and the App Store. We encourage Apple to continue to remove DRM from iTunes content, including all movies, TV shows, games, audiobooks and applications, as well as support for free formats, such as Vorbis and Theora..."
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DebGems announced as Proprietary Platform: Why the GNU Affero GPL is Freedom for Network Services
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"...copyleft is a tool designed to spread freedom in software, at any cost. The FSF, which wrote the GNU and Affero licenses, has the goal to make all software free as in freedom. Companies are ‘free’ to join the revolution, or to look somewhere else for their needs.
Read more »Vietnam to widely use open source software
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The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications has issued an administrative ruling increasing the use of Free Open Source Software products at state agencies, increasing the software's use both in the back office and on the desktop.
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GNUbik 2.3 released.
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"I am pleased to announce the new version of GNUbik. GNUbik is a 3D single player game, which renders a cube similar to the traditional "Rubik Cube" and invites the player to solve it..."
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XULRunner 1.9.0.5
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"The newest official XULRunner has been released. XULRunner 1.9.0.5 matches the Firefox 3.0.5 release..."
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mediawiki.el - Emacs mode for editting MediaWiki pages
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"...if you use Emacs and edit MediaWiki pages, check out mediawiki.el and let me know what you think. I'm especially interested in bug reports from anyone."
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Firewall MySQL with GreenSQL
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GreenSQL is a “firewall” for MySQL databases that could help protect your database from SQL injection vulnerabilities.
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The Tridgell Effect
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"...The Tridgell effect is what happens in the development community as the result of developers who are motivated by primarily by freedom. It might be summarized by the phrase: ..."
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Is Microsoft ‘Pulling an EDGI’ on Kerala?
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Microsoft dumps non-Free software on Kerala to block GNU/Linux; more antitrust exhibits unveiled
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Display Remote Applications on Your Desktop
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The X Protocol is the method of showing a graphical application.
Read more »The way is cleared for Debian 5
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The Debian developers have decided to release the upcoming Debian 5 (Lenny) with proprietary firmware files to expedite the completion of the Linux distributions next release. The vote itself had several options for dealing with proprietary firmware, from a complete elimination of it, even if it meant more delays for Lenny, to an explicit waiver of the source code requirement for firmware files.
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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.
