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Software Portals Can Do More Than Install Software

12/18/2007  
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One problem many people face is finding the right software for their needs. With the huge number of open-source applications avaliable, it can be hard to sort through them, unless software portals focus not just on installing software, but also on helping you find software.
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Hands-on Linux Software RAID

05/04/2008  
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Software RAID is RAID implemented with software - no additional hardware such as a RAID controller is needed. Thus, software RAID is a good starting point to start getting some hands-on RAID experience. Also, software RAID is independent of proprietary management software - maintaining a software RAID works the same way on all machines that run Linux. However, there is something to think about too: when considering software RAID, think about performance.
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IT Confidential: Why Software, And Beer, Should Be Free

03/24/2007  
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I've come to the conclusion that software should be free. And I mean really free--as in free beer. Or free advice. I know there's a free software movement, one that advocates the unencumbered use of software code, but the folks behind it pull their punches. On its Web site, the Free Software Foundation defines free software this way:"'Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer.'" See what I mean?
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Historic victory of the"Associazione per il Software Libero"!

04/06/2007  
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The Associazione per il Software Libero has successfully appealed a governemnt tender for 4.539.184,55 Euro in Microsoft software licenses on grounds that before buying software Public Administrations have to compare all available options, including free software.
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Proprietary software an anomaly

04/24/2007  
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Free and open source software researcher Rishab Ayer Ghosh says that just 16 percent of software spend is on pre-packaged software and the majority of programmers work outside the pre-packaged software sector."Proprietary software is an anomaly," says Ghosh.
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FOSS is better 'alternative' to pirated software--advocate

09/17/2007  
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Free and open source software (FOSS) is a better alternative to pirated software, a local open source advocate has said."There is an alternative to pirated software. You don't need to pirate software to use good software. We often read raids of shops and businesses using illegal software. People want to use software, and FOSS is an alternative," said Dr. Giovanni Tapang, member of the Computer Professionals Union and Agham, an organization of Filipino scientists and engineers, in an interview last week.
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Eben Moglen's Plone Conference Address

12/10/2006  
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This is a must listen too video keynote address to the 2006 Seattle Plone Conference by the Free Software Foundation's Eben Moglen:'...Software can prevent software from being owned. Software itself can lift the software tax. That's where we are at this moment. On that cusp. In this neighborhood, at this moment, the richest and most deeply funded monopoly in the history of the world is beginning to fail...the very engineering limits of trying to make software that you own work as well as software that the community produces are becoming apparent...'
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From Evil to Good: List of Formerly Closed-source Software

03/06/2008  
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Increasing number of software applications are going the free/open-source way these days. Looks like more and more software companies and developers have seen the barriers of closed-source programs and have now fully realized the significance of freedom. Here are some of the most notable software packages which were published under a proprietary software license but later released as free and open source software.
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GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other software

06/07/2007  
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Now that the 'Final Draft' of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) is out I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the least well understood provisions in the license. In part 1, we explored the notion of selling GPL software. This part looks at mixing GPL (v3 and v2) software with software covered by other licenses.
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Software isn’t open and closed case

02/05/2007  
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To begin with, one myth that has to be exposed is that a division exists between open-source and commercial software. This isn’t true because some open software can be sold on a commercial basis, and services connected to open software can be sold as well. In this context, “free” doesn’t necessarily mean that open software is free of charge, but rather that it supports creative freedom. So it’s much better to categorize software as open and proprietary, rather than free-of-charge and commercial. The biggest difference is in fact, that open software can be “freely” distributed and modified, while proprietary software is under strict control of its author.
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