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GPL v3 Has Reached 2000 Projects!!! —Our database now contains over 2000 projects that are using the GPL v3. This is a large milestone for the license, and seems to still be the beginning of wider adoption. Nine months have passed since the release of the controversial license and it has already gained 2k projects. Read more…
New Features OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 (available now) —The multiplatform, multilingual office suite OpenOffice.org announces the official release of version 2.4 with 9 new chart features, 5 PDF export enhancements, text to columns in Calc, rectangular selection in Writer, bug fixes, performance improvements, improvements supporting the growing library of extensions such as 3D OpenGL transitions in Impress, and much more. Read more…
Microsoft just doesn’t understand open standards —Recently I accidentally went to a short promotional Microsoft presentation (non-US) about OOXML for work…I came away from that presentation with the impression that Microsoft as a company, and especially at the executive level, doesn’t actually have a clear understanding of what an Open Standard is. Read more…
Open Source Software Made Developers Cool. Now It Can Make Them Rich —Last spring, marketer and blogger Hugh MacLeod posted a question on his site: If open source is such a phenomenon, where are all the open source billionaires? His audience wasn’t amused. Read more…
OpenOffice 3.0 promises to bash Office —Microsoft’s Office suite could have plausible challenger on the desktop for the first time since Lotus gave up trying to take on Redmond a decade ago. Read more…
What is Copyleft? —“Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well. The simplest way to make a program free software is to put it in the public domain, uncopyrighted. This allows people to share the program and their improvements, if they are so minded. Read more…
Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead —Aaron Seigo joined the KDE project in 2000 and is sponsored by Trolltech. Based in Calgary, Canada Aaron spends his time thinking about KDE project and its client-side software. Here he describes how porting KDE4 to Windows and MacOS will enable Kontact, the Open Source groupware application, to challenge the dominance of Microsoft Outlook in the enterprise. Read more…
Laugh along with GNU —This is a web page designed to provide some laughs to the working hackers. It contains software, documentation, music, poems, etc. submitted by GNU users and collected by GNU contributers over the years. Read more…
It’s official: Microsoft’s concerned about GNU/Linux —“Without fanfare (as expected), Microsoft filed its 10-K form to the Security and Exchange Commission. In it, however, we find that Microsoft bemoans the fact that their “business model,” well, might tend to suck…” Read more…
Cuba Votes No to OOXML - Says It Did So in September, Too —More OOXML news. The Cuban National Bureau of Standards has reportedly sent an email to the three names NBs are supposed to notify at ISO, Toshiko Kimura, Keith Brannon, and Martine Gaillen, reporting that Cuba votes to disapprove OOXML. Read more…

Thanks to peacemaker, AndrewZ, leo, anna, sharkswithlazers, can.axis, liquidat, and plmday for these stories!

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