New CC-Licensed Feature Length Films from Sweden & Italy Creating a feature films is a massive undertaking, and it is for this reason it is impressing to hear of film makers using CC licenses. Two recent examples are Nasty Old People from Swedish director...
created by doppiomalto | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago 71 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
A few days ago, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation published an op-ed to the GNU project's website, in which he criticized the copyright views of the Swedish Pirate Party, which had recently succeeded in its endeavor to get a seat in Brussels' European...
opinion by raynevandunem | 14 wks ago | updated 14 wks ago 124 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
UPDATE: 8-20-09: i wish to retract my unduly harsh use of the term "sociopath" in describing Richard Stallman. my sincere apologies. there are some excellent arguments, very well worded in a comment posting below...
opinion by dysamoria | 16 wks ago | updated 11 wks ago 417 views | 0 recommendations | 12 comments
Will Google win this time as they conquer the battle of the OS? "It’s official. Google sets its gears in 2010 as they enter into another venture and that is the battle of operating systems via their own Chrome OS. As a start, Chrome was known as a web browser launched by...
Introduction Open source has proved itself as the breath of fresh air, like the fresh sunlight coming from open windows to indian academic society. From Donald Knuth to Linus Torvald, the immiediate encourager of the present open source society, became famous; but all the...
opinion by Tanmoy Deb | 22 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago 93 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Canadian film maker Brett Gaylor recently debuted his documentary, RIP: A Remix Manifesto in Austin, TX at SXSW. The documentary serves as a social commentary on copyright and the emergence of "remix culture."...
created by Blaine Metzgar | 32 wks ago | updated 32 wks ago 399 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Some interesting changes are maybe on the horizon. If this deal happens maybe lot will happen in the software era as Sun has a lot of software in its hands, like Java and MySQL and Solaris to name a few. Lot of...
created by pgaliba | 33 wks ago | updated 27 wks ago 154 views | 28 recommendations | 5 comments
Firefox Mobile (also called Fennec) is lined up for an early-February release for Windows Mobile. The first device to get the 'Fox will be the HTC Touch Pro. Aside from Windows Mobile, a Symbian version is in the...
created by jordan | 40 wks ago | updated 40 wks ago 125 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
When switching your business to open source software, you lose the licensing fees but may pick up other costs. When businesses hear the term “open source” software, it often translates into another word: free. And while open source code technically is just that -- free...
created by esarfraz | 40 wks ago 93 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
Search giant Google is consolidating its projects, eliminating some in order to re-allocate resources to those it considers more popular or more scalable. Amongst those getting the ax are Jaiku, Dodgeball, Notebook,...
created by jordan | 42 wks ago 38 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Open source software transforms our world -- this very site is built on a number of open source software. And yet, this is UPS' official standpoint: "UPS Ready does not support open source models, or authorize...
created by nk | 52 wks ago | updated 52 wks ago 150 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
"Artifex Software, the company behind the open source Ghostscript PDF processing software, has filed a lawsuit against voting machine vendor Diebold and its subsidiary Premier Election Solutions. Artifex says that Diebold violated the GPL by incorporating Ghostscript into...
The Ubuntu Community has released it's latest 6 months cycle version of the increasingly populair Linux distribution: 8.10 code named the Intrepid Ibex! This new release contains some state of the art technology...
created by eluxzen | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 576 views | 4 recommendations | 6 comments
"Nova Spivack: "Web OS" Midde-Ware Will Transform the Cloud Into Your Personal Distributed Desktop October 27 2008 / by Alvis BrigisCategory: Information Year: General Rating: 4 Hot New To facilitate more efficient interaction with data and services...
created by mielles | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 54 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The Open Handset Alliance, comprised of Google and 33 other companies, unveiled the new G1 phone which operates on Google's open-source Android system. The phone will initially be released by T-Mobile for...
created by Terri Potratz | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 473 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments