Links 22/06/2008: Free Software Enters Gujarat's Education, Linux Appears in Unexpected Places
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-22 22:06:05 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-22 22:06:05 UTC
GNU/Linux
Laptops
- Did Microsoft Fake XP on XO Press Media?!I
f you look at the photo on James U's blog post, you can really tell the difference - his image has the XP screen looking way more natural. And if that were the only trespass, who really cares, eh?
- Starting out with the [Linux] Eee PC
- Comment: Why netbooks are here to stay
This was big news in the industry as Microsoft knew this would be jumped on by the tech press and described as a u-turn in a potential PR nightmare, especially considering the lack of popularity of Vista.
So why did they do it? Not just for revenue reasons - in order to avoid Linux getting a bigger toe-hold in this vital emerging market, primarily made up of young users.
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F/OSS
- Why Is Proprietary Software So Bad?
The majority of the Linux users out there are for pure FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software). That is, they only want FLOSS software on their machines. This movement really took off mostly because many of the original Linux and UNIX pioneers were firm FLOSS disciples.
- Open Source Government: France beats Italy 4-0!
- Top 10 Best GTK Applications Not Included in GNOME
- Free/Open-source File Managers
A computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems is called a file manager. It is considered as one of the most important software applications since its main function is to speed up interaction with files. The most common operations of a file manager are create, open, edit, view, print, play, rename, move, copy, delete, attributes, properties, search/find, and permissions. Others have special functions such as network connectivity and the ability to extend operations utilizing user written scripts.
- Business family, open source community
- Devunity: Open community for open-source developers
- Building IT Support for Open-Source Model
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- IcedTea: The First 100% Compliant Open-Source Java
- Is Open Source Good for the Java Developer?
- Building Open Source Acceptance
- Our Constitution - The Open Source for Freedom
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- Sun aims open source model at emerging markets
- Drupal’s Creator Envisions Web Publishing’s Plug-and-Play Future
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- [Video] Time to Acknowledge Debian Has a Real Problem and This Problem Needs to be Solved
- it would make sense to try to resolve conflicts and issues, not exacerbate these
- Daniel Pocock elected on ANZAC Day and anniversary of Easter Rising (FSFE Fellowship)
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- Ulrike Uhlig & Debian, the $200,000 woman who quit
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- Girlfriends, Sex, Prostitution & Debian at DebConf22, Prizren, Kosovo
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- [Video] Debian's Newfound Love of Censorship Has Become a Threat to the Entire Internet
- SPI/Debian might end up with rotten tomatoes in the face
- Joerg (Ganneff) Jaspert, Dalbergschule Fulda & Debian Death threats
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- Amber Heard, Junior Female Developers & Debian Embezzlement
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- [Video] IBM's Poor Results Reinforce the Idea of Mass Layoffs on the Way (Just Like at Microsoft)
- it seems likely Red Hat layoffs are in the making
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- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Microsoft is Shutting Down Offices and Studios (Microsoft Layoffs Every Month This Year, Media Barely Mentions These)
- Microsoft shutting down more offices (there have been layoffs every month this year)
- Balkan women & Debian sexism, WeBoob leaks
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Martina Ferrari & Debian, DebConf room list: who sleeps with who?
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- Meike Reichle & Debian Dating
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- Lives are at stake
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- [Meme] EPO: Breaking the Law as a Business Model
- Total disregard for the EPO to sell more monopolies in Europe (to companies that are seldom European and in need of monopoly)
- The EPO's Central Staff Committee (CSC) on New Ways of Working (NWoW) and “Bringing Teams Together” (BTT)
- The latest publication from the Central Staff Committee (CSC)
- Volunteers wanted: Unknown Suspects team
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Debian trademark: where does the value come from?
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Detecting suspicious transactions in the Wikimedia grants process
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- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gunnar Wolf & Debian Modern Slavery punishments
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- On DebConf and Debian 'Bedroom Nepotism' (Connected to Canonical, Red Hat, and Google)
- Why the public must know suppressed facts (which women themselves are voicing concerns about; some men muzzle them to save face)
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- These trends are worth discussing
- Canonical, Ubuntu & Debian DebConf19 Diversity Girls email
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- Bruce Perens & Debian: swiping the Open Source trademark
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- Ean Schuessler & Debian SPI OSI trademark disputes
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- Windows in Sudan: From 99.15% to 2.12%
- With conflict in Sudan, plus the occasional escalation/s, buying a laptop with Vista 11 isn't a high priority
- Anatomy of a Cancel Mob Campaign
- how they go about
- [Meme] The 'Cancel Culture' and Its 'Hit List'
- organisers are being contacted by the 'cancel mob'
- Richard Stallman's Next Public Talk is on Friday, 17:30 in Córdoba (Spain), FSF Cannot Mention It
- Any attempt to marginalise founders isn't unprecedented as a strategy
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 22, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, April 22, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Don't trust me. Trust the voters.
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- Chris Lamb & Debian demanded Ubuntu censor my blog
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- Ean Schuessler, Branden Robinson & Debian SPI accounting crisis
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- William Lee Irwin III, Michael Schultheiss & Debian, Oracle, Russian kernel scandal
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Comments
gggggg
2008-06-23 01:44:18
If you continue you're nothing more than an hypocrite.
Victor Soliz
2008-06-23 03:31:52
Don't dare to bother the holy ones, all praise to Novell and Microsoft...
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-23 06:22:05
I suppose you're referring to that game which is ported to GNU/Linux and another which is not Wine-compatible (and no, I don't use Wine).
PitaGuy
2008-06-23 07:03:02
DB2 is closed source. So Mark Shuttleworth talk about open source is just another vapouware. Mark does not believe is open source...he is just a hypocrite.
Hypocrisy (or the state of being a hypocrite) is the act of preaching a certain belief or way of life, but not, in fact, holding these same virtues oneself.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-23 07:12:44
PitaGuy
2008-06-23 09:24:46
A person/company who claims to be / believes in pro-open source but uses, buys, promotes(links to), sells, writes closed source software is a OSH in the increasing order. Uses being the least OSH and writing being the highest OSH.
And the award for the biggest "OSH" goes to ........GOOGLE
Google - it is the biggest open source hypocrite on this planet. :D