Anti-rantifesto: Why free software and free culture aren't the same
Nina Paley, a professional illustrator and animator, has produced a fairly energetic rantifesto arguing that the "four freedoms" of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) should apply to free cultural...
View ArticleDebian and Software Freedom Law Center publish software patent FAQ
Software patents have, unfortunately, become an inescapable part of working with software. They're of particular concern to free and open source projects (FOSS), but like many matters legal people have...
View ArticleFacebook bans another tool for contact exports
After just a few days of operation, Facebook has already slammed the door for Open-Xchange's OX.IO export tool.
View ArticleCustom distro hammers hardware to detect system failures
One of the things I love about Linux? You can do so many interesting things with it. Take, for example, Breakin — a stress-testing and hardware diagnostic tool that will put hardware through its paces...
View ArticleThe hard-line anti-anonymity approach for Google+ shows Google still doesn't...
When Google+ launched, I was really happy with the service and thought that Google was in a great position to demonstrate that they "get" some of the complaints that users have long had with Facebook....
View ArticleClose to the wire, Novacut nears its Kickstarter goal
Want people to open their wallets? Give a good deal on games. Want people to fund an open source video editor project with a big vision? That's a bit tougher, but the Novacut project looks like it...
View ArticleSay what? GNU Emacs violates the GPL
GPL violations are a dime a dozen. Some are intentional, some are not — but I don't think I've ever seen one quite as surprising as this one. Yes, Richard Stallman has sent out a note letting everybody...
View ArticleFedora 16 to skip btrfs by default
One of the main features planned for Fedora 16 was a switch to btrfs by default. However, as the first alpha for F16 approaches, it looks like it will be another cycle before the filesystem gets its...
View ArticleLarry Ellison knocks Oracle's Linux strategy
The Oracle v. Google trial is kind of hard to miss this week, and it's dragging out all kinds of nuggets of information. One of the best this week? Oracle's CEO unintentionally taking a jab at his own...
View ArticleShould Fedora abandon release names?
Fedora has a long history of release names. Some have been serious (Verne, Goddard, Cambridge), while others have been a little less so (Werewolf, Moonshine, Zod). Perhaps the silliest of them yet,...
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