Links 22/06/2008: Free Software Enters Gujarat's Education, Linux Appears in Unexpected Places
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-22 22:06:05 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-22 22:06:05 UTC
GNU/Linux
Laptops
- Did Microsoft Fake XP on XO Press Media?!I
f you look at the photo on James U's blog post, you can really tell the difference - his image has the XP screen looking way more natural. And if that were the only trespass, who really cares, eh?
- Starting out with the [Linux] Eee PC
- Comment: Why netbooks are here to stay
This was big news in the industry as Microsoft knew this would be jumped on by the tech press and described as a u-turn in a potential PR nightmare, especially considering the lack of popularity of Vista.
So why did they do it? Not just for revenue reasons - in order to avoid Linux getting a bigger toe-hold in this vital emerging market, primarily made up of young users.
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Reviews
Short Ones
F/OSS
- Why Is Proprietary Software So Bad?
The majority of the Linux users out there are for pure FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software). That is, they only want FLOSS software on their machines. This movement really took off mostly because many of the original Linux and UNIX pioneers were firm FLOSS disciples.
- Open Source Government: France beats Italy 4-0!
- Top 10 Best GTK Applications Not Included in GNOME
- Free/Open-source File Managers
A computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems is called a file manager. It is considered as one of the most important software applications since its main function is to speed up interaction with files. The most common operations of a file manager are create, open, edit, view, print, play, rename, move, copy, delete, attributes, properties, search/find, and permissions. Others have special functions such as network connectivity and the ability to extend operations utilizing user written scripts.
- Business family, open source community
- Devunity: Open community for open-source developers
- Building IT Support for Open-Source Model
- Google spice brings out open source aroma
- IcedTea: The First 100% Compliant Open-Source Java
- Is Open Source Good for the Java Developer?
- Building Open Source Acceptance
- Our Constitution - The Open Source for Freedom
- Can open source save Yahoo?
- Sun aims open source model at emerging markets
- Drupal’s Creator Envisions Web Publishing’s Plug-and-Play Future
- Lou Dolinar: Alternatives to Microsoftware
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- Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), Inc. vs. Vizio, Inc. Is Costing the Free Software Foundation Money
- FSF subpoena and deposition
- They Try to Replace the Creators of GNU/Linux and Hijack Their Word, Work, and Reputation
- gnu.org is down at the moment; now I'm told it's back but very slow. DDoS?
- Links 05/05/2024: Political Cyberattacks From Russia and Google Getting a Lot Worse
- Links for the day
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- Death of Michael Anthony Bordlee, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- The Revolution Continues
- Today we've published over 20 pages and tomorrow we expect more or less the same
- Death of Dr Alex Blewitt, UK
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Following the Herd (or HURD)
- Society advances owing to people who think differently and promote positive change, not corporate shills
- Thiemo Seufer & Debian deaths: examining accidents and suicides
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Gemini Links 05/05/2024: Infobesity and Profectus Beta 1.0
- Links for the day
- Running This Site Mostly a Joyful Activity
- The real problem or the thing that we need to cancel is this "Cancel Culture"
- Australia Has Finally Joined the "4% Club" (ChromeOS+GNU/Linux)
- statCounter stats
- Debian as a Hazardous Workplace Where No Accountability Exists (Nor Salaries)
- systematic exploitation of skilled developers by free 'riders' (or freeloaders) like Google, IBM, and Microsoft
- Clownflare Isn't Free and Its CEO Openly Boasted They'd Start Charging Everyone to Offset the Considerable Losses (It's a Trap, It's Just Bait)
- Clownflare has collapsed
- Apple Delivered Very Disappointing Results, Said It Would Buy Its Own Shares (Nobody Will Check This), Company's Debt Now Exceeds Its Monetary Assets
- US debt is now 99.98 trillion dollars
- FSFE Still Boasts About Working Underage People for No Pay
- without even paying them
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 04, 2024
- IRC logs for Saturday, May 04, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- The Persecution of Richard Stallman
- WebM version of a new video
- Molly de Blanc has been terminated, Magdalen Berns' knockout punch and the Wizard of Oz
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- [Meme] IBM's Idea of Sharing (to IBM)
- the so-called founder of IBM worshiped and saluted Adolf Hitler himself
- Neil McGovern & Debian: GNOME and Mollygate
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- [Meme] People Who Don't Write Code Demanding the Removal of Those Who Do
- She has blue hair and she sleeps with the Debian Project Leader
- Jaminy Prabaharan & Debian: the GSoC admin who failed GSoC
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Jonathan Carter, Matthew Miller & Debian, Fedora: Community, Cult, Fraud
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- Techrights This May
- We strive to keep it lean and fast
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- Links for the day
- Links 04/05/2024: Tesla a "Tech-Bubble", YouTube Ads When Pausing
- Links for the day
- Free Software Community/Volunteers Aren't Circus Animals of GAFAM, IBM, Canonical and So On...
- Playing with people's lives for capital gain or "entertainment" isn't acceptable
- [Meme] The Cancer Culture
- Mission accomplished?
- Germany Transitioning to GNU/Linux
- Why aren't more German federal states following the footsteps of Schleswig-Holstein?
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 03, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, May 03, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Alexander Wirt, Bucha executions & Debian political prisoners
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
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- Links for the day
- IBM's Decision to Acquire HashiCorp is Bad News for Red Hat
- IBM acquired functionality that it had already acquired before
- Apparently Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Again (Late Friday), Meaning Mass Layoffs Every Month This Year Including May
- not familiar with the source site though
- Gemini Links 03/05/2024: Diaspora Still Alive and Fight Against Fake News
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Reserving Scorn for Those Who Expose the Misconduct
- they like to frame truth-tellers as 'harassers'
- Why the Articles From Daniel Pocock (FSFE, Fedora, Debian Etc. Insider) Still Matter a Lot
- Revisionism will try to suggest that "it's not true" or "not true anymore" or "it's old anyway"...
- Links 03/05/2024: Canada Euthanising Its Poor and Disabled, Call for Julian Assange's Freedom
- Links for the day
- Dashamir Hoxha & Debian harassment
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Maria Glukhova, Dmitry Bogatov & Debian Russia, Google, debian-private leaks
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Who really owns Debian: Ubuntu or Google?
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- Keeping Computers at the Hands of Their Owners
- There's a reason why this site's name (or introduction) does not obsess over trademarks and such
- In May 2024 (So Far) statCounter's Measure of Linux 'Market Share' is Back at 7% (ChromeOS Included)
- for several months in a row ChromeOS (that would be Chromebooks) is growing
- Links 03/05/2024: Microsoft Shutting Down Xbox 360 Store and the 360 Marketplace
- Links for the day
- Evidence: Ireland, European Parliament 2024 election interference, fake news, Wikipedia, Google, WIPO, FSFE & Debian
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Enforcing the Debian Social Contract with Uncensored.Deb.Ian.Community
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gemini Links 03/05/2024: Antenna Needs Your Gemlog, a Look at Gemini Get
- Links for the day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 02, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, May 02, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
Comments
gggggg
2008-06-23 01:44:18
If you continue you're nothing more than an hypocrite.
Victor Soliz
2008-06-23 03:31:52
Don't dare to bother the holy ones, all praise to Novell and Microsoft...
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-23 06:22:05
I suppose you're referring to that game which is ported to GNU/Linux and another which is not Wine-compatible (and no, I don't use Wine).
PitaGuy
2008-06-23 07:03:02
DB2 is closed source. So Mark Shuttleworth talk about open source is just another vapouware. Mark does not believe is open source...he is just a hypocrite.
Hypocrisy (or the state of being a hypocrite) is the act of preaching a certain belief or way of life, but not, in fact, holding these same virtues oneself.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-23 07:12:44
PitaGuy
2008-06-23 09:24:46
A person/company who claims to be / believes in pro-open source but uses, buys, promotes(links to), sells, writes closed source software is a OSH in the increasing order. Uses being the least OSH and writing being the highest OSH.
And the award for the biggest "OSH" goes to ........GOOGLE
Google - it is the biggest open source hypocrite on this planet. :D