Microsoft sets dangerous precedence with NBC, says the EFF
Read more »Silverlight and Microsoft’s ‘Open’ Status Still Very Low, Indicate Studies
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New studies/surveys indicate that Microsoft lies about Silverlight's 'success' and its lies about openness are rather fruitless
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Mono Developers: From .NET Boosting to Java Bashing?
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Here is what seems like new attempt s to justify the use of Mono at Java's expense
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Microsoft Talks to Open Source “Community Members” About Patent Royalties
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Another bit of evidence suggesting that Microsoft tries to phase in software patents into OSS
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Approval of OOXML Might Be Delayed Due to Formal Complaints
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It appears as though OOXML might be put on the ice for a while longer amid complaints
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Survey: Programmers shunning Vista for Mac OS and Linux
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The headline was that most developers are still not targeting Windows Vista when they write new apps. Only 8% of the 380 developers surveyed were writing for Vista; 49% were still targeting Windows XP.
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Destroy annoying bugs part 1: FindBugs and PMD doing good work cheaply
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Finding bugs in your code can be quite nasty—especially if you don’t know where to look. However, finding bugs automatically does not require astronaut training. I think it’s time to leave that “pleasure” to free (as in freedom) automatic static code review tools like the ones reviewed in this series of articles.
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MailOgging
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"This project is for the use of the average bloke (yes, you), who would like to further help and promote the use of your favorite free format. The MailOgging is a strategy to get the attention of hardware and software vendors who do not know the Ogg family, do not care about it, or do not know how many people care about it.
Read more »Debian Package of the Day: potrace: Transform bitmap images into vector graphics
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"You can face the task sometimes that you need a high resolution material from a particular image. Most probably when you’re a graphic designer (or even a tattoo artist), you might want to have a good quality result from a low resolution image that you can magnify no matter how much, it will give you smooth edges in high quality."
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Grip - A Beginners Guide
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In this guide I will try and cover as much as I can regarding the setup and basic use of Grip as a cd-ripper. We will explore various tweaks and settings I have collected over the past couple of years whilst using it, and I will try and simplify the setup process as much as possible.
Read more »The Bizarre Cathedral - 5
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The latest comic strip from the Bizarre Cathedral by Merc and Crimperman
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Ubuntu Security Notice another win for Linux.
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What is that I say, a win for Linux? Look now that all the nay-sayers, pundits, and critics have had a chance to chime in lets look at the big picture. The openssh vulnerability is not something to take lightly and I’m not it’s just I think allot of noise was made for something I think was handled much better than any Microsoft vulnerability ever has.
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Some Emacs Basics
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"Emacs is a class of text editors that have an extensive set of features and that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. GNU Emacs, a part of the GNU project, is under active development and is the most popular version.
Read more »BadVista and Digital Restrictions Management in action
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"Windows Vista gratuitously refused to record certain TV programs as a form of Digital Restrictions Management." -- via RMS website -- badvista in action: http://download.justinjas.com/broadcastflag.jpg
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How Microsoft Uses Novell to Fight GNU/Linux, Xen to Fight VMWare and GNU/Linux
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Techtarget.com may be delivering this news a little too late, but it incorporates some quotes which the publisher sought from Red Hat, Xandros, Novell and some so-called ‘analyst’.
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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.
