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		<title><![CDATA[I for one welcome no overlords]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[GPLed software is not legally free.Only software distributed with no license at all is legally free. The GPL is admirably, artfully, and life-givingly crafted to compel specific downstream-of-distribution behaviors through legal encumbrance. Legally encumbered software is not legally free software. Period.We will know that the free software movement--where "GPLed" is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:48:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Internet is the tree, open source the fruit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is the tree, open source the fruitWhat is Open Source?I know there is a formal declaration but the emotional "my O/S is better" confuse the issue.Is all the MS code obtained on the internet free source? Is Google, Office, Apple SDK type addins?Does the "code" have to be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:43:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream ITDelusion DayJust saying it every year for the last decade does not make it any more real.If Linux desktop ever gets to 1% global usage, it will still be irrelevant.Who's deluded?It's already happening and will continue to proliferate.I can understand how some people...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:03:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Open source census says, free as in beer]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open source census says, free as in beerWell...I'm really not being sarcastic but, is it really a surprise?What's that say about commercial software?If FOSS apps that beat the stuffing out of commercial ones can be developed for free by a tiny minority of users, what must be the proportion of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:23:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Open source, Microsoft models both wrong, Simonyi said]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open source, Microsoft models both wrong, Simonyi saidApple's and OrangesOpen source vs proprietary is less about how it is developed than it is about how it's distributed.  Improvements in the process of development and testing can improve the quality of software regardless of how it's distributed, which means that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:57:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How much do open source license terms matter?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much do open source license terms matter?You didn't go far enough in the change...With legacy Microsoft-style EULA's, the people/organizations that are most likely to infringe the licenses are "End Users".   This does not extend to FLOSS, where the people/organizations that are most likely to infringe the license...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:56:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Has Google become evil in the eyes of open source?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has Google become evil in the eyes of open source?Google is on the right sidebecause they sponsor the OSS community and make M$ bleed in the search field.Maybe they're both evil in their own ways?I don't think Google intentionally does "evil," at least as it relates to open source. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:55:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will XenSource-Citrix Deal Hurt Xen, Open Source?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will XenSource-Citrix Deal Hurt Xen, Open Source?Open Innovation...I guess I see this not as FLOSS projects/companies being made more closed, but traditionally closed companies recognizing that they need to become more open.  Yes, this is a "mixed source" environment, but when you add up the mixture you are now...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:37:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What is stalling open source in healthcare?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is stalling open source in healthcare?Canada has a universal care system, but not FLOSSI'm Canadian, looking at this from a different perspective.I don't think that whether there is public health insurance or even better a public health care (not a "just in time sick care insurance") really affects whether...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:56:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does Everex benefit open source market?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does Everex benefit open source market?Conversion path.Microsoft marketing has been amazing for them.  My cousin (who I hadn't chatted with for years) was over at my house last weekend.  After reading her mail on my laptop she started asking about what I do for a living.  When...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:50:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The open source way to truth]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The open source way to truthJournalism vs Blogging...A call for us to write more.  I think there is a lot of writing (I BLOG primarily at http://digital-copyright.ca ), so volume of information isn't the issue.  The job of the journalist becomes more like the job of a librarian...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:31:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FCC fights the open source concept]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FCC fights the open source conceptAre you referring to this"From the FCC Notice:[i]The Commission hereby states that it is its policy, consistent with the intent of Cognitive Radio Report and Order and Cisco's request, that manufacturers should not intentionally make the distinctive elements that implement that manufacturer's particular security measures...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:24:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The unemployment myth and open source]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unemployment myth and open sourceMr. Green's comment was very welcome.Yes, people should be paid for the good work that they do.  That's a significant change in open source philosophy, probably enough to obviate the social movement, but paying attention to an inescapable problem does encourage people to think...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 08:18:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Moglen goes all Democratic on Microsoft]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moglen goes all Democratic on MicrosoftLOL![i]"I hear he's considered a shoo-in for the next Summer Olympics [1] in the chair toss"[/i]I believe that there aren't that many competitors in that competition. He's possibly in a class of his own. He can only win 2nd place as they only patented "Silver"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 14:28:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to kill open source]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to kill open sourceConspiracy Theory?Are you saying that email/newsgroup spam is a plot by the megacorps to take over the internet?I would say more that it's a flaw in the original design of the networks.  I just finished reading The Cuckoo's Egg ( http://tinyurl.com/35bc5o - classic stuff, one...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 07:34:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Open-source Alfresco shifts to GPL]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open-source Alfresco shifts to GPLFLOSS exeption ?"the company did add to the GPL license a "FLOSS exception" provision"This is strange, the GPL was not made to be exeptioned ..For this they created the LGPL, as far as I know this removes the obligation to opensource changes when redistributingThat's too badI'm...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:13:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Open-source firm SourceLabs bags $7 million]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open-source firm SourceLabs bags $7 millionCoolFLOSS is expanding! Sweet.http://one.revver.com/watch/77155/format/flv/affiliate/23672Competing With Oracle; The outsourcing of DBAs.The editor of SQL Server Magazine confirmed in a pannel discussion yesterday in Bellevue Washington that the future of DBAs was in being outsourced. To remain in the DBA field it was going to be necessary...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:24:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft-sponsored lobbyist to the EU: It's a mistake to floss us]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft-sponsored lobbyist to the EU: It's a mistake to floss usThanks for the silver bullet...]:)Intelligent and Elegantshills . . .and the losers lobbying EU, thats considered fairIts pretty evident the business tactics used by IBM. SUN the other big loser who cant compete along with Symantec and McAfee, Adobe (who...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:32:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechWorlds Matthew Broersma writes:A leaked letter to the European Commission has revealed the extent of lobbying by proprietary software groups to prevent the widespread adoption of open-source software....Sent in response to a recent report on the role of open-source software in the European economy, Microsoft-funded pressure group, the Initiative for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:35:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qualcomm gives Eudora a Mozilla makeoverMy thoughtsI used Eudora almost exclusively until they started charging money for it and had an ad-supported model, at which point I was semi-forced to switch to Outlook anyway for work. I've been using Thunderbird since the 0.7 release, partly because a it's free, b...]]></description>
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