I’ve been somewhat remiss lately in adding some links, so this should bring me up to date.
Open Source
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InfoWorld | The Philippines goes open source
“Infotech is reporting that the Department of Social Welfare and Development has officially moved to open source software.”
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Computerworld | Academic study hopes to uncover the secrets of open source
“oOpen source projects have produced some of the most sophisticated pieces of software while defying conventional wisdom about collaborative projects, according to researchers at the University of California Davis.”
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The Jakarta Post – Open source seen as piracy cure
“Sofyan Djalil, the minister of communication and information, said the widespread use of open source software is the best way to stop piracy.”
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Why is open source so fast? | Open Source | ZDNet.com
“UC Davis, best-known perhaps for its excellent veterinary program (go Aggies) has gotten a $750,000 grant to tackle one of computing’s great mysteries � why does open source development go so fast?”
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LXer: Novell’s Linux Road Show Makes A Good Impression
“They seriously stumped for OpenOffice.org and the OpenDocument Format.”
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A fight against evil or a fight for attention? | Linux Journal
A blog entry by Nicholas Petreley: gpl v3, firefox, debian
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Open Source Software, Standards, and Java @ ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE
Stephen Walli explains it all to you.
DRM and Microsoft
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Microsoft’s solution to having its DRM hacked: sue | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
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Microsoft files lawsuit over DRM crack
“Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against anonymous “John Does 1-10″ whom they allege have broken Microsoft’s PlaysForSure DRM with stolen source code.”
ODF
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Thinking beyond the office suite
“The ODF panel at the OpenOffice.org conference allowed us to have a meaningful and deep conversation on the merits and the future of OpenDocument Format. I would like to outline some of the things that are in the work inside the OpenDocument Format Commu
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Thoughts on an OpenDocument Toolkit – Michael Brauer
“In my first series of blogs I will write about the topic of OpenDocument toolkits (in short ODF toolkits).”
Accessibility
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“The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday published documents providing developers with assistance on making dynamic Web content usable to persons with disabilites, as part of the organization’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).”
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eWeek – W3C Sets Road Map for Web App Accessibility
“The World Wide Web Consortium has announced a road map for making rich Internet applications more accessible.”
Music
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Old friend to auction tape of teen Dylan
“A man who was a teenage friend of Bobby Zimmerman plans to auction a tape of him singing and playing guitar, which could be one of the first recordings of the artist who came to be known as Bob Dylan.”
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South Louisiana Blackpot Festival & Cookoff
Wish I could go, looks like a lot of great music.
Politics
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Pirro Under Investigation Over Plan to Tape Husband – New York Times
Hard to make this stuff up.
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Massa, Witte, Hunter and Fineberg-Duckett in Cuba [NY] � The Rural Patriot
From the fundraiser we attended last weekend.
Fun
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Via Boing Boing.
