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Have you searched for Linux distributions that are 100% free? Did you find more than one that suited your needs? Well, here's a list of nine from which you can choose your favorite. Free means freedom to alter, redistribute,...
PC Week's (now eWEEK's) birth year 1984--was a busy one for technology. One platform that began to take shape at that time was focused not on hardware or software but on licensing. Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT to start...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 4, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Versant Corporation (Nasdaq:VSNT), an industry leader in specialized data management software, announces that the open source license used for the db4o product offering is...
Mockingbird , a new wireframe webapp, boasts: Powered by Cappuccino: no Flash needed. John Gruber writes: It’s a true web app (no Flash), written in Cappuccino Gentlemen, your excitement over skipping Flash is hugely misplaced....
I was asked in an interview recently about "open source science" and it got me thinking about the ways that, in the "open" communities of practice, we frequently over-simplify the realities of how software like GNU/Linux...
Richard Stallman's flight has been delayed and he will be arriving in Waterloo later than expected. As a result, the talk has been moved to the Modern Languages Theatre at 6:30PM. Drop by the CSC for more information! Sorry for...
RepRap (replicating Rapid-prototyper) is a 3D printer and it is impeccably free and open source under both the GPL and the Creative Commons Licence. It’s early days but the implications and the promise are potentially enormous...
mmaney writes "As part of its 2009 open source best practices research, MindTouch asked C and VP level open source executives who they thought are the most influential people in the industry today. The list is ranked by the...
Today is the day, my friends. The day where the boys are separated from the men. The day tech support is separated from the system administrators. The day God smiles from on High. What am I referring to? Why, Whiskerino 2009,...
Summary : Rumours and speculations about Microsoft and expansion into Ask.com; the brutal story about Microsoft’s moral corruption in the fight against Yahoo! makes a sudden return T HIS morning we wrote about Carl Icahn , who...
