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Datomic Free Edition
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
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Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser
These days, we spend more time online – working with docs, email, music and occasionally even accessing social media. But, our online and desktop experiences have been disjointed. We give applications the full run of our desktops, where they have their own icons and windows, but we trap the whole Internet inside one…
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Microsoft Open Sources their Entity Framework ORM
Almost exactly two years from the day we announced Entity Framework 'Magic ...
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Thunderbird: Stability and Community Innovation
Thunderbird provides an open-source, cross-platform email alternative for those of us who still use stand-alone email clients (and I am one). It’s trust-worthy, it’s under your control, and it’s built to reflect the Mozilla mission. Once again we’ve been asking the question: is Thunderbird a likely source of…
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The FFmpeg/Libav situation
One year and a half ago, an important part of FFmpeg developers decided to change the way the project was managed. This led to some kind of takeover , mainly to get rid of the old maintainer dictatorship, but also to change development methods, redefine objectives, etc. Then, for various reasons I will quickly…
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Introducing ccv, a modern computer vision library
It has been two years since the first commit. Two years ago, I promised 1). an object detection algorithm; 2). a text detection algorithm; 3). a feature point algorithm; and 4). a 3d reconstruction algorithm. With the 0.1, there is: 1
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Eric Raymond: Why I think RMS is a fanatic, and why that matters
One of my commenters reports that he showed my essay on evaluating the harm from closed-source software to Richard Stallman, who became upset by it. It shouldn’t be news to RMS or anyone else that I think he’s a fanatic and this is a problem, but it seems that every few years I have to explain the problem again. I…
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LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance improvements
Up to 100% performance improvements thanks to the efforts of a diverse and growing developer and QA community Berlin, May 30, 2012 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.4, the fifth version of the free office suite’s 3.5 family. LibreOffice 3.5.4 offers significant performance improvements over the…
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Stripe open-sources Einhorn
Einhorn: the language-independent shared socket manager - contribsys/einhorn
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GitLaw: GitHub For Laws And Legal Documents - A Tourniquet For American Liberty
Update : This post received a lot of attention on Hacker News . Please also visit there to read many insightful comments!
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Moving Django to GitHub: the postmortem
We finally moved Django to GitHub late yesterday. Here's a postmortem, to keep the community updated and for the benefit of any projects that take this leap in the future.
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Xfce 4.10 released
Today, after 1 year and 4 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.10, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.8.
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Meteor meets NoGPL
Meteor made a big splash this week. Check out their screencast if you haven’t already. For “real-time” web applications it really seems to simplify things a whole lot. The team behind it seems plenty experienced and they are building a business on Meteor by going with the GPL/commercial dual-license approach made…