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A Big Victory for F/OSS: Jacobsen v. Katzer is Settled – ConsortiumInfo.org
“The result? F/OSS has achieved a significant victory that will provide comfort to developers that their expectations will be satisfied when they contribute code to a software project. This is particularly significant for projects that adopt so-called “restrictive” licenses, such as the GNU General Public License, which are intended to prevent exploitation of the work of community developers for unauthorized commercial purposes.”
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Neowin.net – Revealed: Office 2010 ballot screen for default file format, OOXML or ODF
“Microsoft has made several changes to a Release Candidate version of Office 2010 made available to testers recently. One change in particular prompts users whether they want to use Office Open XML (OOXML) or OpenDocument (ODF) document formats. The prompt only appears in European SKUs of Microsoft Office 2010.”
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Mike The Coder » My top 10 Gedit plugins
“Gedit can be a really awesome editor if you give it a few plugins and an open mind. Here are a few of my favorites.”
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Making it as an MMO blogger: The bloggers speak up part 4 – Massively
“A game developer invites you to take an all-expense-paid trip to visit their studio and review their upcoming MMO. They promise a free copy of the game and lifetime account, as well. Would you do the review? Explain why or why not.”
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Is Second Life about to enter its “second life?” – Scoble
“First, the users remained very evangelistic. Second, corporations like IBM found other uses for its islands and kept investing (they now use these islands for training and replacements of expensive conferences). Third, the technology has been steadily improving. Fourth, the company has found new ways to bring new users in and make the experience easier to get into.”
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Arkansas Times: Education by avatar
“When you think of Second Life (SL), a web-based, user-created virtual world where people remake their own identities, clothing, appearance and lifestyle, you might think of anti-social geeks sitting at home in their mothers’ basements, communicating with other “avatars” and creating a charmed virtual life that in no way resembles their own. And for some users you probably wouldn’t be too far off.
But what started out as a virtual universe where users can create alter egos, interact and actually participate in a virtual economy is being used by universities in Arkansas and elsewhere as a cost-effective, easy-to-use learning tool.”
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You might not have seen this, but Julian Lombardi wrote about the asset risk to institutions building in third-party worlds like Second Life. http://julianlombardi.blogspot.com/2010/01/better-cover-your-assets.html