Software patent law must be simplified if not completely abolished. The concept that a routine or function is somehow "intellectual property" is ridiculous. How many times have you had an idea and found out someone else had the same idea? Patents were designed to prevent stealing of ideas but two independent people creating the same idea are not stealing from each other.
Read more »KDE Brainstorm Monthly Digest - issue 1
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Hello, and welcome to the first “issue” of the KDE Brainstorm monthly digest. There are quite a number of ideas being posted on the KDE Brainstorm, and it would be nice to know how the initiative is faring.
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KDE Launches KDE Brainstorm
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Yesterday the KDE project launched their own version of Ubuntu Brainstorm, creatively called KDE Brainstorm. This new section of the forums allows users to vote and comment on ideas, just as Ubuntu Brainstorm does.
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Why 24-Hour View Should Be Default in Ubuntu Brainstorm
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Ubuntu Brainstorm allows you to view the most popular ideas ever, in the last 6 months, in the last 30 days, in the last week, and in the past 24 hours. Since the new version of Brainstorm appeared, the default has been to view the most popular ideas in the last 30 days. This causes two major problems...
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Advocacy at the Speed of Light
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The latest course on the menu is, of course, the Linux.com site. This one is the fun one, because we've opened it up to the community to lend their ideas. Here's the top 5 thus far:
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Update: The Freedom Key
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Howdy, something a little different for you today but I had to share this. As you may have read in previous posts I've been producing a podcast called the Software Freedom Law Show for the Software Freedom Law Center in New York.
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For me, the high point of the conference was the chance to listen to people like RMS, Eben and Jimmy Wales - and a lot of other very interesting people with very interesting ideas.
Because we were sort of immersed in ideas for three days, I shall structure this report around these “ideas”.
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Brilliant Brainstorms (#1) - Let your screensaver do the work!
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Brilliant Brainstorms will be a weekly-ish summary of some of the best brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. In the beginning it may not always come exactly once a week or on the same day, but, if it becomes popular, it should become more regular.
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Goal: Dell FREEDOM Box - A Fully Open System for Home Users by 2010
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Set a goal of having at least one fully open system for home users by the end of 2010! This would be Dell's greatest endeavor yet!
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10 Ideas to Improve GNOME
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We love GNOME. Sometime around 2.6 it started becoming really, really damned good, and a lot faster and more responsive. All kinds of nice things like Network Manager, the Nautilus CD burner and the SFTP support popped up. It helps that most major Linux apps like like Firefox, Evolution, GAIM, and OpenOffice use the same toolkit and themes too.
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