Norway Aims to Reduce Microsoft Dependence

The Norwegian government said Friday it will increase its use of freely shared, open-source software to reduce its dependency on large computer companies like Microsoft Corp.

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Xara LX 0.6 Released

Xara LX is getting stable. Xara LX is an open source vector graphics drawing tool. It is the Linux port of the popular Xara Xtreme.

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DoD Study: Open Source in the Interest of National Security

[A] report from the Department of Defense's Advanced Systems and Concepts Office… recommends that the DoD move to a roadmap to adopt open source and open standards, maintaining that such a move is not only in the US national interest, but in the interests of US national s …

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Firefox Continues Gains at Internet Explorer's Expense

It was almost two years ago to the day that [Ars Technica] reported on Internet Explorer's first-ever drop in browser market share. At the time, IE usage had dropped from 94.8 percent at the beginning of 2004 to 93.9 percent a few months later.

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Cracking the Secret Codes of Europe's Galileo Satellite

Members of Cornell's Global Positioning System (GPS) Laboratory have cracked the so-called pseudo random number (PRN) codes of Europe's first global navigation satellite, despite efforts to keep the codes secret.

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Sun shines a light on open source

Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, talks about the company’s open source strategy.

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Startup on a tight budget

discusses open-source software that can help bootstrap a start-up

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The General Public License is a threat to capitalism

When legislators go draconian on us, it's time for some murky humour. Right? The General Public License (GPL) is a software license from the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

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Microsoft to support OpenDocument... kinda...

Microsoft will be sponsoring an open source project to write a plugin for Office 2007 that will enable importing and exporting of OpenDocument files.

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Open-Source-Software Activists Want Bono to Join Cause

He's bent the ear of world leaders on social causes. He's a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He's a rock star.

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OpenWengo :: Freedom to Call, Freedom to Code

The OpenWengo project's goal is to build Open-Source, community-driven software that addresses the shared needs of Voice Over IP users, by leveraging the many Open Source low-level components available today.

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OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 is out

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Inkscape 0.44 released

Inkscape is a cross-platform open source vector graphics drawing tool. This release includes many improvements (native PDF export, better SVG conformance, node sculpting, clipping and masking support, to name a few).

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Saving while you’re spending (Open source development) | Technology Voices

Open source company management revealed

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Why GAIM may fail

Hey look it’s Latino first article at the Vine! Let’s hope it runs well.

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GNOME Reaches Out to Women Developers

Following on from GNOME's participation in Google's Summer of Code, we've decided to sponsor three projects in a similar fashion to the Summer of Code, but for women only.

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Linux Coming to Your Mobile Phone

Several leading mobile-device manufacturers announced Wednesday that they plan to form an alliance to develop and support a global version of Linux for mobile phones, PDAs, and other portable devices by the end of 2007.

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Can Windows and Linux Learn to Play Nice?

Microsoft has been reaching out to the open-source community to try to find ways to overcome the incompatibilities between software distributed under the GNU General Public License and its own commercial software.

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A Continuing Work in Progress: The State of Linux 2006

In days gone by, the personification of Linux might have conjured up the image of a hotshot college kid full of half-baked ideas and sharp edges. But that college kid has now graduated into the business world, and unleashed his furious entrepreneurial spirit.

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Teenager creates "Pixar quality" animated Firefox ad as freebie

I've seen it but I'm not sure I believe it. Firefox's Mike Beltzner, interviewed this week on the TWiT.tv podcast Inside the Net , talked about firefoxflicks and in particular an extraordinary video contributed, he claimed, by a teenager.

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A lawyer with a guilty conscience?

Lawrence Lessig is one of my heroes. He's one of the few lawyers who understand open source, technology and, ofcourse, its legal aspect. This article sheds a little about his fight.

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Official GP2X SDK has been released

GamePark Holdings, Inc. has officially released the GP2X SDK.

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Protect your friends from spam and virus's: A beginners guide to better security.

Having watched Mac Break's excellent episode 6, on mail encryption, I thought I'd inform my friends and co-workers about my intention to begin routinely encrypting and signing my email correspondence with them, from now on.

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Free Radical

Open source science journals...

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Get Linux From a Vending Machine!

The founder of Ubuntu and his foundation are dispensing open source software from vending machines. Incredible idea that just might work!

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What's so great about Wikipedia?

When Marcus J. Gilroy-Ware examined the rise of Wikipedia in September last year, the English version of this groundbreaking free encyclopaedia had about 730,000 articles. Evidently, a lot of can happen in a few short months.

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