IDG in Sweden is reporting the contents of a leaked Microsoft memo sent to Microsoft partners there, telling them to join the Swedish Institute of Standards and vote yes on OOXML.
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Environmental and social justice groups unite to condemn Microsoft Vista
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"International coalition of environmental and social justice groups condemn Microsoft Vista and call for the adoption of free software..."
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GPLv3 Myth #4: GPLv3 undercuts the Microsoft/Novell deal
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In part 4 of a 5 part series on the new version of the most commonly used free/open source license, today we take a look at one of the reasons it took so long to create–the Microsoft/Novell patent deal.
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From Zero to Holy $&*#!
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What if Linux and Free and Open Source Software became illegal to use due to “national security?” Never mind the fact that the American military uses it. Never mind the fact that Microsoft funded both political parties in the year 2000.
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How people can miss what is Free Software and offend everyone in the process
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The developers of Pligg (the engine behind FSDaily) are willing to sell Pligg. The problem here is not the selling but what they are saying.
It is unbelievable that they miss completely what is the FSM, what "community" means and where they will be today if that community didn't have promoted them. They even call us free-riders in a very offensive way. Read more at the forum.
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WGA Meltdown Casts Doubt on Microsoft Reliability
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"After servers that authenticate Windows XP and Vista go down for 19 hours, analysts question the reliability of Microsoft's services."
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Lowering Barriers to Entry: Open Source and the Enterprise
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Contrary to published reports and popular opinion alike, the most important impact of open source on the enterprise has not been on pricing. The single most important impact of open source upon the enterprise has been the removal of barriers to entry and adoption - all thanks to open source’s ability to empower individual developers and architects.
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Linux the fastest-growing smartphone OS
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Linux will power about 31 percent of all smartphones sold in 2012, and by then will have shipped in 331 million devices, says ABI. The research firm forecasts 75 percent CAGR (compound annual growth rate) for Linux in smartphones through 2012, making it the fastest-growing OS in the sector.
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Asustek to launch low-cost laptop
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Open-source education may solve talent crunch
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SkillsCamp was born in an effort to galvanize the Indian technology community to create quality open source courseware helpful to people in the IT industry
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Linux User - You Have The Right To Remain Silent, Anything you say...
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There could come a day when it will be against the law...at least in the United States to use, possess, advocate or distrubute any Linux Operating system.
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The Four Freedoms Applied to Hardware
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"If those underlying principles exist, then it should be possible to identify them. It should also be possible to extrapolate concrete expressions of those principles in new contexts… such as hardware, not software..."
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My recommendation on Office Open XML: "No with Comments"!
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"...I strongly urge them to vote “No with Comments”, specifically with my comments..."
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Meet Linux Genuine Advantage
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p2pnet news | Open Source:- Are you a Linux user who’s feeling disadvantaged, ignored and unloved because you don’t have Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage looking out for you?
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German universities migrate to Linux
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Around 560,000 German students plus thousands of staff at 33 German universities will now be supported by Linux systems from Novell.
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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.
