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History of the Open Source Initiative
Development based on the sharing and collaborative improvement of software source code has a history essentially as long as software development itself. In the late 1990s, interest and participatio…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,682 posts.
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The Drupal Crisis
There have been many pretty obvious signs in the recent past for what can only be considered as a critical milestone :
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We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling
At Browserling we are huge open-source fans and we have open-sourced 90 node.js modules! That's right! 90 node.js modules. All written from scratch. We're crazy! Edit: Now we've open-sourced several hundred! Here is the complete list of all the modules together with their brief descriptions. We have published all…
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Why aren't there any Open Source laser printers?
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Symfony 2.0 is now available
After 12 preview releases, 5 beta versions, and 6 release candidates, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of Symfony 2.0, final version.
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Companies that make money by distributing misleading versions of VLC
Some thoughts about the people who use the name of VLC media player to spread adware/spyware while infringing the VideoLAN ‘s intellectual property and brand…
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Firefox 5 is now officially released
Everyone deserves access to the internet — your language should never be a barrier. That’s why — with the help of dedicated volunteers around the world — we make Firefox available in more than 90 languages.
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Bloat reduction in LibreOffice 3.4.0
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How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?
After building the infrastructure to analyse the code in an Ubuntu release I decided to satisfy a simple curiosity and figure out how much GNU software is actually part of a modern distribution. I picked Ubuntu natty (released in April) as a reference, am counting lines of code (LOC) as the rough metric for size of a…
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How I've started to contribute to open source
A couple of weeks ago, I read a post by Brandon Hays called '“Why I still don't contribute to open source”:http://brandonhays.com/blog/2011/05/03/why-i-still-dont-contribute-to-open-source/' wherein Brandon lays out his reasons for not yet having contributed to any OSS projects.
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The story of George — ayttm's most prolific non-developing contributor
The last communication I had from George was in September 2008. He had helped with tons of little improvements in ayttm, like auto-complete, spell check, etc in addition to affecting the big changes. He is responsible for the rewrite of the msn plugin too. I tried getting back in touch in October for his suggestions…
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JQuery 1.6 released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Dr. Stallman responded to my open letter
Whoa. Thanks for all the attention and feedback, everybody! In case you're curious: I ended up emailing the letter to RMS and got a reply earlier today. I am skeptical of advice from people who disagree with what I stand for. --Dr Richard Stallman Overall, commenters seem to have had fairly positive things to say, but…
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Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter
Dear Dr. Stallman, Thank you for coming to Penn and giving a talk on A Free Digital Society; it was an honor meeting you. You mentioned that what you expected of us was to help the Free Software Foundation however we could; I'd like to take you up on that and offer both yourself and the FSF the following advice: Stop…