My school uses a SIS program called Infinite Campus. The SIS (Student Information System) is the backbone for any school. If you use, are employed by, and/or have high regards for the Infinite Campus company, I strongly advise that you not to read this post, as it may smash your high-held opinions about this fraud into little tiny shards.
Read more »Attention Schools: Beware of Infinite Campus
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Disabled Boy Creates Art With Gimp
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This young man never ceases to amaze me. He attended a screencast introducing free software image manipulation software 'Gimp' at the C³ - Community Computing Center in Bangalore and loved it. Now he raises money by selling the artwork produced using Gimp on gnu/Linux operating system to buy new computers for his community center. Talk about free software empowering people!
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Who is Gandi and why should I care about them?
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"Ah a good question. Who is this strange and wonderful French domain registrar and hosting provider, and why should I believe they are wonderful? What does it mean to believe in domain name ethics?
Read more »Cabletv.sh For Linux or Unix - Final Blog Update
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The public has decided that this should be moved to a SourceForge project, and it shall be so... after today :)
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Court Grants OLPC's Motions Dismissing Lancor's Claims in Nigeria
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Do you remember the horrible case against OLPC in Nigeria, where a company called Lancor claimed infringement of its design patent on a keyboard? They were asking for $20 million in damages. I have some happy news from OLPC News' recent newsletter:In the domestic Nigerian keyboard case, the court granted OLPC's motions to dismiss Lancor's claims.
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Mono and Moonlight: GNU/Linux Polluters from Microsoft/Novell
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Another structured analysis in light of news and suspicious developments
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Fujitsu and Red Hat Offer Linux Support Services
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Fujitsu and open source software company Red Hat have expanded their global alliance to provide Linux support services to extend the bug fix support periods for the update releases 5.2 and 5.3 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux software.
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Freedom Socks - Episode 10 - Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo
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We’re Freedom Socks! a podcast (availible as ogg varbis and mp3) all about free software and GNU/Linux in particular. And, after another random “season break”, we’re back. This week we run over whats been in the freedom news recently, get all angry about normal people, do an interview with one of our own hosts about the AGPLmail project.
Read more »Latest Update on Microsoft’s Plans with Software Patents
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An accumulation of reports about Microsoft, its patent trolls, use of Novell, Red Hat's response and other trolls
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darcs Oversight Committee (Software Freedom Conservancy)
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"Hi everybody, We are getting closer to signing the Software Freedom Conservancy agreement (hereby attached). Before doing this, we will need to address the question of who is representing darcs to the Conservancy, and how do we change this representation should the need arise..."
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EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor - by Richard Stallman, 1981
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"EMACS(1) is a real-time display editor which can be extended by the user while it is running. Extensibility means that the user can add new editing commands or change old ones to fit his editing needs, while he is editing. EMACS is written in a modular fashion, composed of many separate and independent functions.
Read more »Is Red Hat's Whitehurst Right? Open Source Thrives In Downturn?
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CEO Jim Whitehurst says Red Hat will perform robustly through a recession. Is that true or is he engaged in wishful thinking? InformationWeek's cover story this week, "The Open Source Enterprise," concludes that open source code gets taken more seriously in a time of IT budget cutbacks. Will that help Red Hat?
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Linux Users Unite ...And Riot: More Funny Fake News
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No one ever suspected how bad an all out clash between MS and Linux enthusiasts could get...
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The Emacs Way
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«I had a good beer talk this week with Merlyn about IDEs and Emacs. Merlyn's been playing with Clojure, a Lisp for the JVM [...] After the meeting, over at the Side Door, with a good, draft Pilsner in hand, I was asked by Merlyn, "What's the fundamental difference between an IDE like IntelliJ or Eclipse and Emacs?" ...»
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Open Letter to the Portuguese Ministry of Education
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Discrimination against Free sofwtare in Portugal's government is noted
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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.
