"The University of Oregon (my alma mater, coincidentally) is believed to be the first US educational institution to refuse an RIAA demand to hand over the names of students alleged to have illegally downloaded music..."
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The truth about the linux desktop market share
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To understand the markets you have to know something about magicians, and how they work.
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Open Source Alternatives To Geek Squad
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Best Buy's Geek Squad has certainly enjoyed its share of press in recent months. But I found some amusing things about some of their policies -- which were recently leaked to the public (thanks to a link found at Digg.com). The policies demonstrate that the "agents" are expected to make legal judgment calls regarding such applications as P2P options.
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How badly is CentOS hurting Red Hat?
Planting social solidarity reaps a harvest of community
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"...This method involves a lot of hard work that, historically, few have demonstrated they are interested in doing: teach people the values of software freedom, teach the philosophy behind why the free software movement exists..."
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Howto Setup firefox for kmail
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A guide to setting up integration between Kmail and Firefox.
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Torus-trooper: a shoot-’em-up in a tunnel
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Torus-trooper is a pretty nice abstract shoot-’em-up taking place in what could be called a space tunnel. You drive some kind of ship or car who has to stay on the sides of the tunnel, and shoot bad enemies. This game is pretty neat and original in several ways...
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Major Reshuffle At Novell India
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Some numbers about Debian’s history
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"There’s an interesting article on LWN.net about Gentoo: Who made Gentoo Linux, and when? A commit analysis. I was wondering how Debian compared, so I made some stats using the debian-devel-changes archives..."
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Get the facts about sagging Linux server sales
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Installing Xen On An Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) server system (i386). You can find all the software used here in the Ubuntu repositories, so no external files or compilation are needed.
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How to install KAlarm
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Controversial New Patent Rules Blocked - Commentary by Milord A. Keshishian
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Patent attorney, Milord A. Keshishian, offers an analysis of Glaxo's preliminary injunction victory
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The year of the Linux desktop has finally arrived
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While Windows advocates may smirk and say here we go again, as 2007 draws to a close I get the strong feeling that we may look back upon this year and recognize it with hindsight as the year that the Linux desktop finally arrived. There are a number of events that point to 2007 as being the turning point for Linux and it all started in January with the release of Windows Vista.
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Federal Government Votes for Open Source
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The Federal Open Source Alliance, an organization devoted to open source education, today announced the results of its “Federal Open Source Referendum” study,
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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.
