Nocturnal Slacker v1.0Mozilla has done a lot of good in this world of greed. They could sure use a little help from you, though. If you can spare a buck or two to assist in the continuing efforts of this fine organization to create quality free software and make the Internet a better place for all, then [...]
Ah… Wikipedia. It’s anarchy in action. And by that I mean the true meaning of anarchy –> a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without central authority of any kind. Many of you who know me, or read my blogs regularly, know that I am a passionate proponent of free knowledge and a [...]
It’s been a little over a year since Oracle decided to be a meanie regarding OpenOffice.org, which resulted in the forking of the project. LibreOffice was born. By: Fahmida Y. Rashid @ eWeek 2011-09-28 The Document Foundation marks the first anniversary of the day developers broke away from Oracle-controlled OpenOffice.org to launch the LibreOffice office [...]
Are you part of the Open Source community? Do you favor Open Source products? Do you possibly contribute to Open Source? You know, you don’t have to give money to contribute to Open Source. You can help by giving your time, your talents, your feedback; you even help by using the Open Source products. If [...]
As many of you who read my ramblings here know, I was experimenting the Google+ a while back. That didn’t turn out so well. That’s OK, however. I’ve found a wonderful alternative. It’s called Diaspora. For Google+ refugees, it will look quite familiar. Think of it as a concentration camp (Google+) that’s been transformed into [...]
Those of us in the Linux/Open Source community understand this well, I’m afraid. Bruce Byfield writes: Hang around the free and open source software community for any length of time, and you can’t help seeing examples of burnout. A colleague takes on too much, and suddenly they’re working harder for fewer results. They have a [...]
