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African developers release open source virtual classroom »
Posted by: schestowitz 1 year, 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Downloadable versions of the software will be available in Debian, RPM, Java and Windows executable formats. The Debian version is currently available.
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Improving Ubuntu/Upstream Bug Workflow »
Posted by: schestowitz 1 year, 1 month ago in Science & Technology
This is just one of a number of projects that we are working on to improve how we work with other entities in the Open ...
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The Netherlands Patent Office changes to open source software »
Posted by: schestowitz 1 year, 1 month ago in Science & Technology
The Netherlands Patent Office is the first government authority to implement the ‘Nederland Open in Connection' action plan and to switch a large number of ...
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OpenOffice.org in the City of Katowice, Poland »
Posted by: schestowitz 1 year, 1 month ago in Science & Technology
We have begun this series of articles focusing on Free Software deployments in Polish government departments with the article OpenOffice.org in ?eba . Today we ...
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Linux is the Klein Bottle of Economics »
Posted by: schestowitz 1 year, 1 month ago in Science & Technology
Code is cheap. But even in writing and speech, there is definitely a producer and a consumer. Those are the two sides of every known ...
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MicroFOSS and Other Oxymorons: How Can Anyone Be So Gullible? »
Posted by: schestowitz 1 year, 1 month ago in Science & Technology
Developers would have no access to source code that they depend upon. Not only would they be subjected to risk from unnamed software patents Microsoft ...
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Public Procurement and FOSS »
Posted by: schestowitz 1 year ago in Science & Technology
Given the scale of the disadvantage already present, why would any player want to make their position worse? In the report of the interview the ...
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What might end Apple’s open source pass »
Posted by: schestowitz 11 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Apple has replaced Microsoft as the chief foe of open source. (Picture from a student assignment sheet at Bodine High School in Pennsylvania.)
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OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/day… »
Posted by: schestowitz 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
That looks to be a rough average of about 300,000 downloads of the free and open source OpenOffice.org application suite every day for ...
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CDC takes its epidemiological software open source »
Posted by: schestowitz 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Nieves said CDC has tested Epi Info Community Edition on Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system. He said the software has not been tested on any ...
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Konop: $4M cut could pay for college plan »
Posted by: schestowitz 11 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Under the proposal, which was announced during a Toledo Bar Association luncheon at Georgio's Restaurant in downtown Toledo, all county departments would go to ...
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Gentle Warning About OSBC 2009 and OSCON 2009 »
Posted by: schestowitz 11 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
May contain Microsoft agenda
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Dictators in free and open source software »
Posted by: schestowitz 1 year, 4 months ago in Science & Technology
Some people seem to challenge the idea that most (if not all) free software projects need a benevolent dictator— that is, somebody who has ...
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GNOME 2.23.5 Released! »
Posted by: schestowitz 1 year, 4 months ago in Science & Technology
Here's the first release after GUADEC. Istanbul. It was a great place. And some people actually had time to visit the beautiful city.
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Veteran developer ditches Microsoft for open source »
Posted by: schestowitz 1 year, 4 months ago in Science & Technology
If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony ...
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