Looking through posts tagged ‘free software’

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Thanksgiving: Free Software We’re Most Thankful For | 1st Dec 2008

Thanksgiving: Free Software We’re Most Thankful For from LifeHacker. It’s a list worth taking the time to browse. Some great projects are listed.

Congrats, Theora | 4th Nov 2008

Xiph.Org announced the release of the Theora 1.0 video codec yesterday. A video “codec” is a program that allows you to play a particular type of video file on your computer. Theora is significant because it is free and unencumbered by patents, which would require developers to pay patent owners large sums of [...]

Comment of the Day | 13th Aug 2008

A comment on Mark Pilgrim’s Hello Darkness My Old Friend:
“No one cares about freedoms for the same reason that no one cares about oxygen. As long as they’re there, why bother? Freedom zero is so abstract to most people that no one even thinks about it, let alone care. It’s like the string theory. It’s [...]

Selling free software | 13th Apr 2008

I think one of the best examples of how free software can work great (and be even be sold) is Dell’s adoption of Ubuntu. They can take free software (Ubuntu) and custom-tailor it to work on their specific laptops and desktops. They can even custom-compile their own Linux kernels that they don’t contain [...]

What’s this Linux thing? | 16th Mar 2008

What’s This “Linux” Thing and Why Should I Try It?. A pretty good description. Another real reason is because it’s fun and productive.

Free to apply | 7th Mar 2008

I need to renew my FAFSA for next year so that I am eligible for federal loans for school. I attempted to log in to the FAFSA website to do this, and I was greeted with the following message: “We have detected that you are using a non-certified browser.”
They proceeded to give me [...]

BuddyPress frees social networking | 5th Mar 2008

I’m a big fan of Wordpress. It runs this blog, millions of other private blogs, and hundreds of thousands of blogs at Wordpress.com. It’s a great architecture for developing online tools and the community is one of the best around. Matt Mullenweg (lead developer of Wordpress and founder of Automattic) announced today [...]

A Little Explanation | 28th Feb 2008

Well considering the amount of talking I’ve done about “free software” and “GNU/Linux” over the past few weeks, it’s about time I explain myself. During the past 6 months or so, I’ve learned a lot about a little thing called free software. I’d like to take a few minutes and explain what free [...]

Microsoft to squash third world economies | 18th Jan 2008

In a rather disturbing article, I found out that Microsoft was none too pleased that One Laptop Per Child has been distributing laptops with a free and open source linux operating system installed (RHEL). They can’t have everyone in a third world country growing up using gnu/linux and not Windows. Plus think about [...]

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