If you want a free software and security first Linux desktop, keep an eye out for Purism’s forthcoming Librem 14 laptop. …read more Source:: Linux
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Microsoft urged: Open-source Windows 7 to ‘undo past wrongs’
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Group of free software advocates calls on Microsoft to release Windows 7 under a free software license. …read more Source:: Linux
Free software made it on laptops but IoT future is bleak
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If people cannot tinker with Internet of Things devices, then the future is bad for free software, Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Conservancy has said. …read more Source:: Linux
OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVES
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WEEKLY NEWS 5 dashboard tools for monitoring critical data Communicate complex data quickly with these open source tools. Open source is not free software Conflating the two terms might undermine free software as a whole. How to share a mouse and keyboard across multiple computers Learn about Synergy, a software alternative to a physical KVM…
The Culture of Freedom: Free Software, Free Speech
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By editor@techworld.com (Glyn Moody) A few weeks ago, I spoke at this year’s WordCamp London. My theme was free software and free speech. The first part of my talk was a quick run-through free …read more Source:: Open Source
The new struggles facing open source
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By Matt Asay The early days of open source were fraught with religious animosities we feared would tear apart the movement: free software fundamentalists haggling with open source pragmatists over how many Apache …read more Source:: OpenSource
How to Overcome Hidden Barriers to Open Source Adoption
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Your organization may be unintentionally biased against free software. Here’s how to recognize and overcome that bias — in procurement agreements as well as in IT departments. Source: Tech