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Themes are GPL, too
If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. We’ve always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are compl…
Goodbye, "free software"; hello, "open source"
The original call to switch to the term `open source'.
Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects
Java's not even *fun* enough to laugh at. I expect after your sabbatical you would be trolling at Scala or Haskell or Go ! What's next ? Jokes about making GUIs in VB ? Pshh. Seriously though, I can get the attack on privateness and finality. From someone with a strong dynamic tropism, that makes sense. But that good…
Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
Google Wave open source next steps: "Wave in a Box"
Since the announcement that we will discontinue development of Google Wave as a standalone product, many people have asked us about the fut...
mrjob: Yelp open sources its Elastic MapReduce framework for Python
mrjob: Distributed Computing for Everybody Dave M Search and Data-Mining Engineer Oct 29, 2010 Ever wonder how we power the People Who Viewed this Also Viewed… feature? How does Yelp...
Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
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The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee
The Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee. Apache has served on the EC for the past 10 years, winning the JCP "Member of the Year" award 4 times, and recently was ratified for another term with support from 95% of the voting community. Further, the project communities…
Contributing to Open Source projects
Prior to joining Google I always joked that Google was the black hole that swallowed up open source programmers. I'd see awesome, productive hackers join Google and then hear little to nothing from them afterwards. When I joined I decided I'd solve this mystery and post about it but it's been over…