"It's been two years since Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa personally met with Richard Stallman [es], free software activist. Rafael Bonifaz reflects back on the meeting and what has happened since."
Read more »Ecuador: Two Years After Correa's Meeting With Stallman
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A Single Command to Get Started on Functional Programming
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"Functional Programming is old. Ancient. Like right after FORTRAN. But it’s the future. Trust me, I’m named after the dude who knew about Jesus 700 years early. Seriously, it’s not going to take 700 years for FP to go mainstream. Some would argue that it already is. Python, Ruby, and others have adopted a number of FP features.
Read more »Yet Another Reason to avoid Proprietary Cloud Computing
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"Richard Stallman, Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, inaugurated the Centre for Excellence in E-governance in Department of Management Studies,Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi on Thursday, December 18, 2008 as part of 6th International Conference on E-governance (December 18-20, 2008)..." --
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Interview: Vernor Vinge
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"Science fiction writer Vernor Vinge is best-known for novels like A Fire Upon the Deep and Rainbows End, as well as the concept of The Singularity -- the idea that, in the next couple of decades, humans will become or create a super-human intelligence. What is less well-known is that Vinge has been a free software supporter since the earliest days of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Read more »Wine Project Responds to Microsoft FUD Award
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Wine responds to the win of a "Most Likely to Be Ambiguously and Baselessly Accused of Patent Violation" award
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Open source isn't free software
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There's a long standing argument over the differences between "open-source" software and "free" software. But, a more common error outside of software ideology circles is that you can use open-source software anyway you please. Nope. Wrong. It's never been that way.
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Openmoko 2008.12 release
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The Om 2008.12 Update is the second point releases to come after the initial Om 2008.8 release. This includes general operating system improvements that enhance the speed and stability of Neo Freerunner.
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Deep Thoughts: What Does This Humor Have To Do With Linux Or Unix?
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This may have very little to do with Unix or Linux, but I miss Jack Handey ;)
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What happened to Free and Open Knowledge?
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Recently in US History class we have been studying The Gilded Age. Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, and other businessmen ruled the US with such power that it made the government useless. When the government could do something about the problem with the cases that came through Supreme Court, it almost always sided with the corporations.
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Microsoft FUD Alert
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A little new wave of GNU/Linux FUD requires or begs for some quick commentary
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Open source programming languages for kids
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The past couple of years have seen an explosion of open source programming languages and utilities that are geared toward children. Many of these efforts are based around the idea that, since the days of BASIC, programming environments have become far too complex for untrained minds to wrap themselves around.
Read more »Amarok 2.0 RC 1 was released today
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Today the Amarok project releases Narwhal, the release candidate of the upcoming Amarok 2.0.
The changes since Beta 3 focus mostly on fixing bugs, as we are in a fairly hard feature-freeze to give us time to polish the final product. However, this didn’t stop us from adding a few nice new things.
And remember, the new Amarok 2.0 RC 1 works on Windows and MacOS too.
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Liquid War 6 - News: 0.0.5beta, playable release
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"This one is playable. Local games should work, network is not fully implemented yet. There are still many outstanding bugs and missing features but it should be worth downloading and installing the game even for end-users, non-hackers players, who just want to enjoy the game..." -- Liquid War 6
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A Peek at Lenovo's iPhone-Like Android Phone
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As we've noted before, the T-Mobile G1 or "Google phone," based on Android, is doing better than expected. In 2009, many Android phones are going to be appearing, and as applications and innovative designs proliferate, they could give the iPhone a run for its money. Today, photos are appearing of Lenovo's Ophone, which is an Android phone that it has slated for delivery in China.
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The Gnome Screen Real Estate Problem & what can be done now
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Gnome does a pretty bad job at utilizing screen real estate. In fact, all Desktop environments in Linux.. in all distro ’s uses up far too much screen real estate for just about everything. But until Gnome, Ubuntu, Fedora or anyone else can fix the problem, what can be done about it now? Well, a lot actually.
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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.
