11-Year-Old Becomes Network Admin for Alabama SchoolSlashdot -54 minutes agoThe school took advantage of a Microsoft effort called Fresh Start that offers free software upgrades for schools with donated computers, switching from …
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Vote on a Web standard too close to callInternational Herald Tribune, France -40 minutes agoMicrosoft eventually relented and financed a free software add-on that enabled Ooxml users to save documents in the rival format. …Possible Manipulation of OOXML Process In PolandSlashdotOpen XML vote: politics, intrigue, and, oh, some techCNET News.comall 26 news articles
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Down to the wire for Microsoft's pursuit of a global industry standardInternational Herald Tribune, France -1 hour agoMicrosoft eventually relented and financed a free software add-on that enabled Ooxml users to save documents in the rival format. …Possible Manipulation of OOXML Process In PolandSlashdotOpen XML vote: politics, intrigue, and, oh, some techCNET News.comall 28 news articles
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New Software Lets Law Enforcement Patrol Peer-to-Peer NetworksPR.com (press release), NY -54 minutes agoThis software, called Forensic P2P, joins other free software for law enforcement collectively known as SPEAR Forensics. Forensic P2P lets officers search …
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Microsoft's mission to make money in a mouse clickBusiness Report, South Africa -32 minutes ago"There is no such thing as free software. Nobody develops software for charity," Ferreira said this week as the open-source software debate irked …
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Open Source Business Model Using Software PatentsSlashdot -58 minutes ago… account in Free as in Freedom [amazon.com] of his early Free Software visions was that he was essentially using the copyright system against itself. …
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Clean Machine Can Help Consumers and Small Business Owners Get Up …India PRwire (Press Release), India -47 minutes agoClean Machine customers don’t have to be bothered with finding or installing the free software. Their assigned, Bangalore-based PC Concierge Technician will …
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The 100 best free software applicationsPC Advisor, UK -35 minutes agoFree. It's the magic word for an ever-expanding wealth of downloadable software and online services. Free doesn't necessarily mean good, however, …
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Red Hat And The Power Of Infinite GoodsTechdirt -10 minutes agoOracle has made comparatively little effort to either hire Linux developers or foster strong relationships with the broader free software community. …
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And the top 15 open-source influencers are…eWeek, NY -1 hour agoFree software, yes; open source, no. Eric Raymond? Raymond certainly gets a big share of the credit for popularizing open source and Linux, but lately he's …
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