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Dreamwidth Studios: Bringing the Corner Store to Open Source Publishing

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Dreamwidth Studios' co-founder Denise Paolucci remembers growing up in a family-owned corner deli, some of whose customers had been eating there daily for decades. "They'd become part of the family, instead of faceless customers," she says. "That's stayed with me for my whole life.

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OSS and Software Patents: If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em

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Over at ars technica, Ryan Paul has a report from Eben Moglen's LinuxCon keynote. Moglen spoke about the software patent problem, particularly for free software, now that the Bilski ruling did not go as far as some had hoped. "One of the main themes of Moglen's keynote is the power...

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Interview with New Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith

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Earlier this year, former Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields announced he'd be stepping down from the post and that Fedora and Red Hat were searching for a new project leader. At the end of June, Frields announced that Jared Smith would be taking up the position.

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Resources for Open Source Compliance

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Open source is everywhere today and there is growing awareness that companies have to meet certain obligations when distributing open source software. Here are some useful resources to learn more about open source compliance. read more...

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Interview with Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin

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Zemlin talks China, Windows, and Linux in our lives We got a chance to send a few questions to Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. We wanted to explore open source principles like transparency, community, and collaboration in his world.  And we got a chance to ask him...

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Study: Most BitTorent Files Breach Copyright

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An Australian university study claims that 89 percent of BitTorrent files it examined over a certain period infringed copyrights.

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Can One Sponsor Sustain a FOSS Project on the Long Term?

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These days I am receiving quite a number of mails that ask the same question: If a FOSS project is sponsored by only one company or entity, do you think it's a healthy project?   In order to answer this question, we need to define some terms first. Let's start...

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As Open Source Spreads Out, So Does the Need For Compliance

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With more and more businesses and organizations using and developing open source software--which can, among other things, be a big opportunity for cost savings--the need for knowledge about open source licenses and compliance is elevated...

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Crafting an Open Web Qualification

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School of Web Craft For working in the open web, people need to know more than one technology. They need to learn, hack, and be creative. Mozilla is driving a project to create a broad, university-style, comprehensive course of study: Mozilla's Drumbeat Open Web Developer degree. Currently, they're calling for...

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OSS: Europe vs. The United States

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Neelie Kroes is IT Chief for Europe and a staunch proponent of Open Source Software. A previous Linux Journal...

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Bilski and Software Patents

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The Supreme Court case of Bilski v Kappos was billed as a case over business methods, but at its core it was over an application for a patent on software, and the denial of that application sets a good example that may lead to the denial of other software patents.

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Lessons Learned from a Hasty Standard

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The ISO has modified its procedures after the controversial adoption of Microsoft's OOXML document format as an open standard in expedited proceedings...

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The Job of the Linux Distribution

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To take an operating system like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Ubuntu and say that it's "Linux", is only half the truth. Linux now refers to the kernel and...

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IRC, Still the Best Support Around

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If you haven't gotten our subtle hints during the past year or so, IRC certainly is not dead. It really is the best way to get knowledgeable support from the folks who know best. There are a few caveats, however, that may not be obvious to people new to this...

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The Fragmentation of Linux: Two Points of View

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The fragmentation of Linux has become a hot topic in recent weeks as industry leaders debate how the community can collaborate to compete against single, vertical operating systems without creating an ecosystem that pulls the community in too many directions at once to be truly effective...

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