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How to contribute to an open source project: look for TODOs in code
Forgotten TODOs: ideas for contributing to open-source projects
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GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes
Since SpaceFM is entering the GTK3 realm (SpaceFM can now be built on anything from GTK 2.18 “I won’t give up my lenny!” thru GTK 3.6.x), I’m starting to hear more feedback …
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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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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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Mono 3.0 is out
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Netflix on Ubuntu Is Here
˅ GO TO THIS LINK ˅ http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight-use-silverlight-in-your-linux.html ˅ SKIP THE OLD INFO BELOW ˅ THE...
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Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software
Yesterday I received a new serious bug report against Mono in Debian. For those not in the know, “serious” severity is release critical, and can trigger removal of a package from the di…
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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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NVD3 Erased From Existence
I was incredibly surprised to find out today that the popular graphing library NVD3 has been erased from the web, due to what what looks like a copyright dispute.
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3D printer community revolting against Makerbot's new closed-source printer
When I woke up, my RSS reader showed some "occupy thingiverse" things posted on Thingiverse. I'm still trying to figure out all that happen...
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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…
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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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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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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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