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“Last Friday, OpenMoko launched its highly anticipated FreeRunner smartphone, a Linux-based handset that's completely open in both hardware and software, and is designed to encourage third-party modification and customization. Although the FreeRunner's software platform is still incomplete, the devic more...

A short animated film made with Blender and other free software.

This is such an important moment for the Open Party -- even if it is simply a figment of my imagination. The changes to our software are real, as are the changes to the spread of information and file sharing. more...

So, what is the big news nowadays, according to the SCO website? It's a daylight savings time patch! And, in keeping with the company's apparent new belief in open source, it's free!

When you program open source, you're programming COMMUNISM!

Explore over 2.5 billion lines of open source code with Krugle Public.

OpenProject, an Open Source solution for project scheduling.

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Programming is an art. Many famous composers and painters had boring "day jobs" painting kings and their fat kids. This is not what we know them for. We know them for what they did at night for free.

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I believe that one of the new sources of lock-in is through large databases created via network effects, such that it's hard for a new entrant to match the services of the incumbent, since the value of those services is more...