"Lawrence Lessig is a genious. He decided to dedicate the next 10 years on ending corruption (after spending the past 10 years on reframing copyright issues)..."
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RIAA vs. Student Culture
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"In 2004, a student named Zachary McCune Brown co-founded Brown University’s chapter of Students for Free Culture, a national organization across college campuses that “advocates loosening the restrictions of copyright law so that information — from software to music to research to art — can be freely shared.”..."
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Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org
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Today is the day OpenOffice.org turns 7.
Happy birthday to our favorite Office suite.
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Eben Moglen Interview in India's Frontline Magazine
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"...If you haven't read this interview with Eben Moglen, you really should. Eben discusses both the practical and the philosophical side of Free Software and Free Information..."
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20071019507610000.htm
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Iptables Tutorial 1.2.2
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So you want to learn how to set up a firewall...
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10 Features in 10 Days: Desktop Effects with Compiz
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Today we soldier on to Desktop Effects with Compiz Fusion. It can be safely said that few features are as keenly desired as Desktop Effects. Ever since Compiz was announced XXX years ago, users and developers have been playing with the bling-tastic effects and wondering when it will hit a desktop near them. Well, the wait is no longer.
Read more »Those who can compete, do. Those who can't, sue
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I'm a wee bit tired by patent FUD and other substitutes for real competition from Microsoft. Microsoft has built a great business on comparatively good products. Yet in its old age, it seems incapable of competing on customer value and instead keeps fetishing its patent portfolio, as if anyone but its lawyers care about those.
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Linux patent lawsuit: follow the money
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Why sue two companies with [relatively] nonexistent desktop businesses when Microsoft provides the biggest potential jackpot of all? (After all, this same company sued and settled with Apple earlier this year.) Unless, of course, it is Microsoft funding the whole thing?
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Firefox takes the lead (on isoHunt)
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From September 18 to October 1 isoHunt's Google Analytics stats have just tipped over in favor of Firefox over Internet Explorer.
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Why Open-Source Does Not Protect Your Freedom: Richard Stallman Explains Why Free Software Is The Only Answer
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"As the advocates of open source draw new users into our community, we free software activists have to work even more to bring the issue of freedom to those new users' attention. We have to say, “It's free software and it gives you freedom!”—more and louder than ever."
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bsdtalk132 - Richard Stallman
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"Interview with Richard Stallman..."
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Corporate Resistance to the Adoption of Linux and Open Source Applications
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So just what is it about Linux and Open Source that company owners and executives don’t like?
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Dutch Consumers’ Counsel advises against Vista
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After more than 5000 complains of costumers about Vista in a month of time, the Dutch Consumers’ Counsel decided to talk with Microsoft. The goal of the negotiations was to give consumers the possibility to downgrade from Vista to XP if consumers had serious complaints about Vista.
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eBay: Beware of geeks bearing penguins (on their shirts)
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eBay Australia's "We'll help you stop the scammers" page and a flash game "Dunk the scammer" depict a scammer as a geek in a shirt bearing the tux penguin!
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Lady of Lourdes College goes Open Source
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Our Lady of Lourdes College Foundation has followed the footsteps of Royal Roads University, Durham Academy, and Handsworth Grammar School by using Free and Open Source Software in their classroom. But this time, the school's administrators decided to take it one step further: eliminate all proprietary software from their computers and their courses and use FOSS exclusively.
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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.
