By editor@techworld.com (Glyn Moody) A few weeks ago, I spoke at this year’s WordCamp London. My theme was free software and free speech. The first part of my talk was a quick run-through free …read more Source:: Open Source
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The new struggles facing open source
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By Matt Asay The early days of open source were fraught with religious animosities we feared would tear apart the movement: free software fundamentalists haggling with open source pragmatists over how many Apache …read more Source:: OpenSource
Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions
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Below you’ll find his answers to those questions .” RMS: By way of explanation, I launched the free software movement; what I say about software issues is based on our values of freedom and community for the users of computers. Source: Tech
FOSS in the Enterprise: To Pay or Not to Pay?
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One of the big attractions behind the growing popularity of open source software is the ability to get it and use it for free. In a world of ever-rising costs in pretty much every other aspect of business and life, “free” is an offer that’s increasingly difficult to refuse. Support is one area, however, where…
LibrePlanet 2014 seeks session proposals, volunteers for annual free software conference
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Friday, October 18, 2013 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the call for sessions for LibrePlanet 2014. The FSF also announced the formation of a volunteer organizing committee and a call for exhibitors. Source: Free Software
Artists: daily builds of Krita
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The Krita Lime PPA provides daily builds of the best free software painting application out there. Source: Tech
netappConfigMaker 1.5.5
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. Source: Tech
GNU system, free software celebrate 30 years
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Friday, September 6, 2013 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced plans to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the GNU operating system. The celebratory activities will include a 30th anniversary hackathon at MIT in Cambridge, MA, satellite events around the world, and ways for people to celebrate online. Source: Free…