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Free Software Foundation throwing a hissy fit over Windows 7
The open source zealots over at the Free Software Foundation have left us here at Download Squad slightly speechless over a press release dropped in our never-ending pile of random crap from around the Internet. It would appear the FSF is pulling out ...
FSF-approved Trisquel Linux shows free software can stand on its own merits
Getting on the Free Software Foundation's page of acceptable Linux distros isn't the easiest task in the world. Stallman and Co. have very particular requirements about what can and can't be included. A first glance at the page might put you off -- ...
Interview with DefectiveByDesign on TDMW
The Haz-Mat suited activists of DefectiveByDesign gained quite a bit of exposure when they waltzed into Apple stores across the country carrying signs and informing customers about the rights they give up when buying DRM controlled music from the ...
Gift Guide: Support open and free computing
Once you've sorted
out gifts for your family, friends, and favorite bloggers, why not give a bit back to the people whose free software
you enjoy (and depend on) all year 'round? Devanshu Mehta has put together a great list of free software ...
Free Software Foundation Hiring
Have a doctorate? Hate web design, razors, soap and capitalism? Able to get by in Boston on $53,849 a year? You may be in luck. The Free Software Foundation is hiring a Campaigns Manager! According to the FSF's own site, "The campaigns manager ...
DLS Interview: Free Software Foundation's Peter Brown
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As we mentioned on Monday, the Free Software Foundation's Defective by Design campaign against DRM paid the U.K. a visit yesterday with ...
HP - Linux for the desktop tipping point?
Well, it seems HP's order fulfillment for enterprise Linux desktop systems is so massive, (multi-thousand units) they are considering offering factory loaded Linux on PC's. The numbers may represent a trend that market demand and mainstream ...
Nokia buys out Symbian, announces platform to go open source
Nokia has announced that it is buying out the 52 percent of Symbian that it didn't already own and opening up the platform. Nokia and a number of other companies including AT&T, LG, and Samsung have also announced the creation of the Symbian ...
Bounty County: Open source bounties from Participatory Culture
The Participatory
Culture Foundation has launched a new site called Bounty County where they list coding bounties for free and open source software.
The current bounties are everywhere from $30 to $4,500 for tasks great and small and can be ...
Shuttleworth to join Linux Foundation
Linux maven Mark Shuttleworth has joined the board of directors at the Linux Foundation, a non-profit tasked with promoting standardization across the Linux platform and protection of the key development structures needed to keep Linux moving ...
What's in store for GPL 3.0?
For the first time in 15 years, the Free Software Foundation is taking a stab at updating the GNU General Public License. According to Computer Business Review, the GPL is the license attached to three-fourths of all open source software, and ...
Microsoft has open source stricken from UN documents
One of Microsoft's cuter tricks in recent memory: The Redmond company recently had all references to Linux and open source software removed from UN documents, claiming that they are "anti-commercial." The document, called the Vienna ...
Microsoft .net dev tools CTP released
The project codenamed "Orcas" is now available for download. The developer tools release is Microsoft's September customer technology preview (CTP) for the .net framework 3.0. You must have the .net framework and September CTP software development ...
First draft of GPL version 3 available online
As reported last month, this year will see the
first update of the GNU General Public License—the license employed by, depending on who you ask, half to
three-fourths of all free software—since 1991, and the Free Software Foundation has ...
Linux Foundation relaunches Linux.com
Earlier this year the Linux Foundation took over control of Linux.com, which had previously been maintained by SourceForge. This week the Linux Foundation unveiled the new face of Linux.com. The new site features blog posts, forums, a list of ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
