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Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 01:18 PM EDT |
Re post as this is amazing:
Bird-Like Robot Can Perch on Mobile Targets--- RMS: The
4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 01:46 PM EDT |
Quote:
The value of RIM’s shares has dropped by more than 70 percent in the past 12
months, with its market cap has tumbled from $78 billion to $6.3 billion in
three years.
Nokia, on the other hand, has seen its shares drop by 90 percent in five years,
and its market cap has dropped from $151 billion to $11.8 billion in four years.
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 05:31 PM EDT |
I have not seen this discussed.
If APIs cannot have copyright, the GPL is partially moot; at least the copyright
protection of GPLv2, but not the patent part of GPLv3?
Is that right?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 06:54 PM EDT |
Today I am very excited, I finally get to talk about project
Sputnik! In a nutshell, drumroll please, here it is:
Made possible
by an internal innovation fund, project Sputnik is a 6 month effort to explore
the possibility of creating an open source laptop targeted directly at
developers. It is based on Ubuntu 12.04 and Dell’s XPS13
laptop.
To put it in context, Sputnik is part of an effort by Dell
to better understand and serve the needs of developers in Web companies. We
want to finds ways to make the developer experience as powerful and simple as
possible. And what better way to do that than beginning with a laptop that is
both highly mobile and extremely stylish, running the 12.04 LTS release of
Ubuntu Linux.
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Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 08:19 AM EDT |
The H I seriously doubt that there will be a stampede to download
the latest version. I may be wrong, but I suspect that the focus of development
of Java will now shift to the free and unencumbered versions, regardless of
whether they can actually be called Java. And, this is end user stuff and they
are understandably slow at upgrading, if what they already have seems to work
ok. Look what happened with Open Office/Libre Office, for an example. Most
developers went with Libre Office, and their GPL code, which is rather prolific,
can't be integrated with the Apache licensed Open Office. Another example of the
Footgun®™ which Oracle acquired from SCO (unnoticed at the time, as we
were more interested in the fork lifts and other things they were selling). I
found out today that some people have switched to Libre Office because of new
features which they actually use every day. It would be hard to counteract that. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: feldegast on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 10:09 AM EDT |
A GIANT in childrens literature
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My posts are ©2004-2012 and released under the Creative Commons License
Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 01:13 PM EDT |
A new internet service provider, offers a "Global Mode" that "offers
greater access to the internet by circumventing geographical restrictions placed
on the certain internet services."
FYX ("Fix"), launched on May 4 as a
sub-brand of established ISP Maxnet, holds the tantalising promise that its
users will be able to directly access US based-commercial download services such
as Hulu and Netflix, and the likes of the BBC's iPlayer - all of which offer a
motherlode of street-legal movies and TV shows for download, but are
"geo-blocked" to stop people outside their parent countries accessing
them.
Chris Keall, National Business Review[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 04:11 PM EDT |
linky.
--Nokia initiates a cooperation
deal with Angry Birds publisher Rovio
--Rovio to bring all installments
of Angry Birds to Windows Phone
--Nokia is also teaming up with
Groupon, PayPal
Looks like Rovio continues to make lots of cash
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 04:14 PM EDT |
Microsoft has demonstrated
support for the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 standard in a technical preview
of the forthcoming Office 15 productivity suite, and plans to release a beta
version with the feature late this summer.
I wonder if it will work
better than their previous attempt?--- The following program contains
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