The first time that the European Commission's vice president talked about the Digital Agenda which was recently published. Neelie Kroes speech was the first time that she talked about the Digital Agenda in public, and she provided quite a bit of interpretation.
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Proprietary technology is a waste of money
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A little healthy kompetition
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I go back and forth between the two top desktop environments with Fedora on my Fujitsu laptop — the even numbers, as it turns out, have been GNOME and the odd (with nothing to read into this, honest) have been KDE. Since we’re now at Fedora 13, it’s KDE time.
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Making Movies with Free Software
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I'm working on not one, but two animated science-fiction films using free software tools, intended for a free-licensed release on the internet under new distribution models. And, being a writer, I'm going to write about it. I think it will be both entertaining and useful.
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15 years of PHP
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The 8th of June, 1995, marked the birth of the PHP programming language. 15 years later, the open source community counts five million PHP developers, and the scripting language powers many of the largest websites worldwide
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OpenOffice.org Passes 150 Million Downloads
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OpenOffice.org surpassed 150 million downloads, 30 million of which came from the 3.2.0 release earlier this year.
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Join the KDE Game at Linuxtag 2010
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This year, like every year, KDE will be present at Linuxtag, which is held from 9th to 12th in Berlin.
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FSDaily tools
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This took me a while to find, so I thought I would share it: "Here at FSDaily we do our best to make your lives easier by providing you with tools that can help with your FSDaily experience. Right now we have bookmarklets, which everyone can use, and three tools for website owners:FSDaily Submission Links, FSDaily Banners, FSDaily News Feed Blocks.
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Five tips for helping your users switch to Linux
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You can make the transition to Linux a smooth one, even for your least technical users. Here are some ways to anticipate their concerns and help them feel at home in their new environment.
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Urgent Note: Help defend Network Neutrality
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RMS: « US citizens: sign this petition to criticize the Democratic congresscritters that supported the big ISPs against network neutrality. »
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Richard Stallman wants users to have software freedom for all published computer software.
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"Richard Matthew Stallman, founder of the free software movement recently gave a talk entitled “Copyright vs. Community” at Balamand University, in north Lebanon. He has given this talk many times before and there are recordings of previous talks available online.
Read more »Eight Ways GNOME Could be Improved
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Not too long back, I highlighted my feelings on KDE, detailing some of its shortcomings and talking about why it’s not necessarily the de facto desktop I’d recommend to people.
In this piece, I want to show you that the GNOME desktop has a number of issues that need attention as well. I’ll outline eight areas in GNOME that need to be improved for a better user experience.
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Free culture projects need a ubiquitous funding system
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The free culture movement, which is of a whole with the free software movement, has made a lot of great progress but is still struggling to prove itself to be economically viable in the mainstream. I might even go so far as to say that a lack of a better funding system is the single biggest thing holding back many existing and many more prospective free culture projects.
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Mozilla Introduces sudoSocial
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With Facebook stomping all over users' privacy, there's been a lot of interest in open source and privacy friendly social network tools. The good news is that Mozilla is getting involved with a new platform called sudoSocial. The bad news is that sudoSocial is very new, and not quite sure what it wants to be when it grows up.
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How to Sell Linux to Schools- Part 2
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Building on the last post, I welcome the opportunity to share some of my experiences with deploying Linux in schools. It is a very broad topic however I will stay with the previous outline. First of all, it is a matter of migrating schools to Linux, not selling them. Second, the approach is different based on whether the school in located in a developing country, the EU or North America.
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More Thoughts on how to introduce a person to Linux
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Last week my colleague Rikki Kite wrote a good blog entry on how to gracefully introduce a person to Linux. I would like to add a few more pointers to her excellent “moving” blog entry:
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