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petition demanding that Amazon drop DRM from the Kindle

http://www.fsf.org

The Free Software Foundation's DefectiveByDesign.org campaign, in cooperation with prominent authors, journalists, and librarians, has launched a petition against the Amazon Kindle's use of digital restrictions management (DRM).

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Protect the freedom to read, end DRM on books

http://www.defectivebydesign.org

Amazon's recent remote deletion of 1984 and Animal Farm struck a nerve. There was something so undeniably creepy about a company entering hundreds of virtual bookshelves in the middle of the night and deleting "1984" (of all books!).

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Some backpedaling on Debian freeze dates

http://lwn.net

Buried deep within a "bits from the release team" posting to the Debian development community is this text: "Based on feedback of the community we are revisiting the decision to freeze December 2009."

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The Firefox Petra trip!

http://omarsflosscorner.blogspot.com

Hello everyone!

So, as the name implies, we the Firefox fans in Jordan (specifically Jordan University for Science and Technology) have arranged a nice and humble gift for the FOSS society as a whole, and the Firefox community in specific..

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CentOS is NOT Dying, It’s Just Bad Reporting

http://boycottnovell.com

Media FUD about CentOS is refuted. Boycott Novell runs on a CentOS server, so it is painful to watch The Register and some other publications spreading FUD about the project.

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Linuxtracker under attack!

http://linuxtracker.org

I don't know if you've noticed or not, but Linuxtracker has been up and down more than your favorite roller coaster over the past week or so. The unsteadiness of the site is due to a number of DDOS attacks being sent against the server

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Canonical to offer Ubuntu desktop support

http://blogs.computerworld.com

Well, in either case, you're going to want to check out Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, latest desktop support offerings: Starter, Advanced and Professional.

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CentOS team responds to community reaction

http://blogs.techsentry.org

CentOS is not dead or going away. The signers of the Open Letter are fully committed to continue the CentOS Project. Updates and new releases will continue.

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Time to Drop the Word “Zealot” from Software Debates?

http://boycottnovell.com

If software is applied science and engineering, then comparing it to politics and religion should be deemed inappropriate

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Dispute between Linux gurus Alan Cox and Linus Torvalds

http://www.h-online.com

After a dispute with Linus Torvalds, the long time developer and Linux kernel maintainer Alan Cox has stopped development of the Linux TTY subsystem.

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Debian is NOT switching to time-based releases

http://mdzlog.alcor.net

At DebConf 9 this week, the Debian release team proposed a new approach to Debian’s release cycle, which was then announced on the Debian web site. Both the Debconf presentation and the announcement were quite clear, but a number of news articles and blog posts on the subject seem to have misinterpreted them.

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Buying with the Penguin

http://blogs.computerworld.com

I have to confess I like this new affinity Visa Platinum credit card that's being issued by the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux.

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GNU Generation: Calling all Pre-University Students

http://www.fsf.org

GNU Generation is a new project sponsored by the Free Software Foundation to involve high school age pre-university students (approximately ages 13-18) in free software.

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The Free Open Source Software Evangelist

http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com

Let's get real, that's what it's all about. It's not because we all wear tin foil hats or that we're harmful to the community and should be expelled. It's because we don't like Mono. And we don't like Mono, because we don't trust Microsoft. And we don't trust Microsoft, because.. Well, do I really have to repeat the whole story again?

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semantic desktop

http://blogs.gnome.org

It gained traction when people realized that a lot of places on the desktop refer to the same things, but they all do it incompatibly. What’s a sematic desktop anyway?

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