itmanagement.earthweb.com - 2/10/2009
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About the Author: Bruce Perens is the creator of the Open Source Definition, the manifesto of Open Source and the criterion for Open Source software licensing. Perens represented Open Source at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, at the request of the United Nations ...
reuters.com - 2/11/2009
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reuters.com —
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba launched its own variant
of the Linux computer operating system this week in...
the latest front of the communist island's battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony. The Cuban variant, called Nova, was introduced at a Havana ...
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Cuba launches own Linux variant to counter U.S.
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distrowatch.com - 2/3/2009
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distrowatch.com —
Welcome to this year's 5th issue DistroWatch Weekly!
As Linux personalities go, there is nobody more famous...
than Linus Torvalds, the man who started it all by developing the Linux kernel in 1991; read on for our exclusive interview with the chief ...
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Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
linuxpromagazine.com - 2/9/2009
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"At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix
time will reach 1,234,567,890. Where will you be at...
this momentous second?" - from Bell Labs This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST. If you want to find out what time it will be in your ...
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One of those magic times: On Friday the 13th! - Linux ...
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Combining Open And Proprietary: Bruce Perens Tells You How
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... , Feb 10, 2009 09:45 AM [image] If there's an authority on the concept of open source, it's probably Bruce Perens: after all, he helped found the open source movement in the first place. Over at Datamation, he's got an article on a subject few people understand well: the tricky practice of combining open source and proprietary software. The main example that Bruce discusses in his article is embedded systems -- phones, TV boxes, appliance-style hardware. Such solutions almost inevitably involve combining something free (e.g., BusyBox) with something non-free (e.g., DRM). ...
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10 top Linux applications. Banshee (music management), Tomboy (note-taking), and F-Spot (online photos) make this list of top apps, and you'll find 10 more good offbeat Linux apps here.
Bruce Perens: Combining GPL and proprietary software. Thoughts from the creator of the Open Source Definition.
Fedora as a basis for Russia's national OS? Red Hat has spoken with senior government officials.
Monty Widenius talks about why he left Sun Microsystems. "The MySQL ...
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... Bruce Perens: Combining GPL and proprietary software. Thoughts from the creator of the Open Source Definition. ...
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