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[News] Open Source Stories in the Boston Globe

  • Subject: [News] Open Source Stories in the Boston Globe
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:18:16 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Laugher is the best medicine

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| In December, Davis began looking online for a way to get involved with open 
| source software development, or computer software with source code that is 
| openly available so anyone can modify it and share the new features they 
| develop. Then he learned of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, the 
| search engine's first open source contest for middle and high school students 
| worldwide.     
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/02/laugher_is_the_best_medicine/

Onto some more laughter:

When geeks and graffiti combine

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| There is a lot of geeky graffiti out there. Some are just scribbles on a wall 
| (programmer art being as it is), and some definitely qualify as artwork. 
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http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=255

Quite nice, but not very on topic.


Related:

Protest DRM at the Boston Public Library  

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| the BPL [Boston Public Library] has launched a new service powered by a 
| company called OverDrive. The system gives BPL patrons access to books, 
| music, and movies online -- but only if they use a Microsoft DRM system.  
| 
| There are lots of problems with the introduction of this system: it bars 
| access to users of GNU/Linux and MacOS and creates a dependence on a single 
| technology vendor for access. These are important issues, certainly. The 
| worst problem, however, is much more fundamental.   
| 
| By adopting a DRM system for library content, the BPL is giving OverDrive, 
| copyright holders, and Microsoft the ability to decide what, when, and how 
| its patrons can and cannot read, listen, and watch these parts of the BPL 
| collection.   
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http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20080207-00


Linux prominent at ESC Boston

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| VDC's report highlights several announcements of potential interest
| to developers and companies in the embedded Linux market.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6546330152.html


FREE BEER

,----[ Quote ]
| See the success of the Linux operating system and the Firefox browser,
| to name two examples.
| 
| What does this all have to do with Free Beer? Well, the founder
| of the free software movement is a man named Richard Stallman,
| and he's still very much a presence. Stallman directs the Free
| Software Foundation, which, through its GNU Project (www.gnu.org),
| administers the licenses that make Linux and other free software
| available. Faced with frequent puzzlement over how "free software"
| could be free if it cost money (and is able to support
| billion-dollar investments from the likes of IBM, in the case 
| of Linux), Stallman came up with a simple explanation: "think
| of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'"
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/02/18/free_beer/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Ideas+Section

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