Ordinarily I don't pay any more attention to Microsoft than I have to, but this was too funny to ignore: A Better View of Microsoft Security?; Microsoft to expand its Trustworthy Computing in a bid to help users and vendors understand security risks.
Read more »When All Merits Fail, Use an Intellectual Monopoly
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It may hard to compete against Free software, but it is perfectly legitimate competition. In the Maureen O’Gara fiasco, you can see her role in overstating the legal dangers to the GNU GPL, as well as accusations against IBM.
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Learning Perl, 5th Edition
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Wanna learn Perl? Huh? Do ya, do ya, do ya? Sorry. When I started thinking about writing this review, I had a Dory moment. The question (such as it is) still stands, though. Do you want to learn Perl? If you do you've come to the right place...maybe. Let me explain.
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Sketchy LISP: An Introduction to Functional Programming in Scheme, Third Edition Now Available
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"...Sketchy LISP presents an overview of the Scheme programming language with strong emphasis on functional programming. Language elements and programming techniques are explained by means of simple examples which are used to form more complex programs..." --
Read more »You keep using that phrase "operating system"...
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"I do not think it means what you think it means..." -- From Balzac's blog
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Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome
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Miguel de Icaza: "We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with Moonlight"
Translation: We'll try to make the whole desktop dependent on a MS standard.
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IBM executive on open source: 'I'm tired of waiting' for industry-specific apps
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Open-source software may not make major inroads into industry-specific enterprise applications, according to an IBM open-source guru. The next 10 years will be "do or die" for this type of application, said Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and standards at IBM, in a LinuxWorld keynote address Wednesday.
Read more »Richard Stallman in Auckland: On copyright in a networked world
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"I just came back from Richard Stallman's lecture at the University of Auckland. I was surprised by the amazing interest in his talk, the lecture hall being entirely jam-packed full, people standing along the back and all the way out into the hallway. I was lucky to be there early enough to get one of the last few chairs..."
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: Python
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Our series on the most popular programming languages continues as we chat to Van Rossum, the man behind Python.
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Using Grep To Streamline Your Shell And Command Line Scripting
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Some interesting ways to use grep to shorten your command lines. Not to be confused with efficiency ;)
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Tell the Australian Broadcasting Company "No DRM"
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"ABC is Australia's Federal Government-funded public broadcaster, and has responsibilities under the ABC Act 1983 to provide services to the Australian people.
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XULRunner 1.9.0.1
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"The newest official XULRunner has been released. XULRunner 1.9.0.1 matches the Firefox 3.0.1 release..." --
* (now, we need to port XULRunner to Emacs; it could be used as a rendering engine inside Emacs...)
HOWTO to setup Stumpwm for a fully Lispy environment (2008-08-07)
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"... thought I would throw this out there as I have spent some time recently getting this working. I had used the stumpwm binary built with the configure && make dance, but it does not run swank in the background so the fabulous facility of running slime-connect and hacking the live window manager was not available. That and having read about clbuild I wanted to get it working.
Read more »autonom.us aims to be think-tank on network service software licensing issues
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Network services are one of the fastest growing areas in modern software. However, while network services have much of the convenience of free software, only a minority are available under a free license. In fact, it was only last November that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) released the GNU Affero General Public License for network services.
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freehg.org: a small site for hosting mercurial repositories
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"Mercurial [Hg for short] is a Distributed Version Control System. Instead of using a single repository per project, each developer can have their own repository." -- via http://understandinglimited.com/2008/08/07/ff-h/
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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.
