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Boxee - You are NOT “Open”
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Another vivid example of how so many companies are only paying lip-service to the term “Open”.
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The Twelve Days Of Unix
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By the time you read this, Christmas will be over ;)
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It is time we had a 'LibreOffice'
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A fork of Openoffice based of Sun's OO , in the lines of GNU Icecat, would be a nice idea.
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Bursting the proprietary-software bubble
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When I heard U.S. president-elect Barack Obama make his "lipstick on a pig" remark while running as a candidate back in September, it got me thinking about language, and how it can be used to deceive as easily as to explain.
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One Laptop Per Hacker program offers reduced-price, open source-based netbooks to developers
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Emtec, the company behind the Gdium netbook, is launching the One Laptop Per Hacker program. Interested developers can apply to get a pre-release Gdium system at a reduced price of €250.
Read more »Mplayer, FFmpeg Gain VA-API Support
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Nice article at Phoronix about adding VA-API (short for Video Acceleration API) support in mplayer and ffmpeg.
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Happy Holiday - More ASCII Art
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Seasons Greetings To One And All :) Merry Christmas!
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Moving Towards a Self Hosted Cloud
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Cloud computing provides a lot of great experiences, but being in control of your cloud applications and hosting your own gives end users the benefits of cloud applications, and security of controlling their own data and using open-source software!
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Open Source Torrents Forced Offline by Anti-Piracy Outfit
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The Internet can prove complex to some, especially copyright holders. Recently, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) notified the webhosting company of a BitTorrent tracker dedicated to Open Source Software, that it was infringing copyright of one of their clients. Without any notice, the webhosting company pulled the tracker offline, not realizing that the tracker had done nothing wrong.
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Free Software: Perl 5 source repository now hosted in git
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"Perl 5's source code is no longer locked into the odious proprietary Perforce repository where it's been hosted for years. It's now hosted in the git distributed version control system. This is a huge win..."
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e-Swecha: Indian-made OS to be released
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"e-Swecha is a free software project initiated by the Free Software Movement in India and is aimed at developing a free Operating System to, for and by the engineering students. The name is derieved from "E(ngineering)- Swecha" [ Swecha is the telugu word for 'freedom' ]
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Sugar Labs is joining the GNOME Foundation
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Sugar Labs, a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, is joining the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board. Sugar Labs creates software for young children used on platforms like the One Laptop Per Child's XO. Sugar is based on the GNOME platform and relies on technologies like GTK+ and Telepathy.
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An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales
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"Dear Reader, Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users? [...] We share a common cause: Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's our commitment..."
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Linux and the PC Mentaility
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Here’s a minor thought dump of the moment: no hard numbers, just some general observations over the past year or two.
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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.
