Laugher is the best medicine
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| In December, Davis began looking online for a way to get involved with open
| source software development, or computer software with source code that is
| openly available so anyone can modify it and share the new features they
| develop. Then he learned of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, the
| search engine's first open source contest for middle and high school students
| worldwide.
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/02/laugher_is_the_best_medicine/
Onto some more laughter:
When geeks and graffiti combine
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| There is a lot of geeky graffiti out there. Some are just scribbles on a wall
| (programmer art being as it is), and some definitely qualify as artwork.
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http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=255
Quite nice, but not very on topic.
Related:
Protest DRM at the Boston Public Library
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| the BPL [Boston Public Library] has launched a new service powered by a
| company called OverDrive. The system gives BPL patrons access to books,
| music, and movies online -- but only if they use a Microsoft DRM system.
|
| There are lots of problems with the introduction of this system: it bars
| access to users of GNU/Linux and MacOS and creates a dependence on a single
| technology vendor for access. These are important issues, certainly. The
| worst problem, however, is much more fundamental.
|
| By adopting a DRM system for library content, the BPL is giving OverDrive,
| copyright holders, and Microsoft the ability to decide what, when, and how
| its patrons can and cannot read, listen, and watch these parts of the BPL
| collection.
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http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20080207-00
Linux prominent at ESC Boston
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| VDC's report highlights several announcements of potential interest
| to developers and companies in the embedded Linux market.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6546330152.html
FREE BEER
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| See the success of the Linux operating system and the Firefox browser,
| to name two examples.
|
| What does this all have to do with Free Beer? Well, the founder
| of the free software movement is a man named Richard Stallman,
| and he's still very much a presence. Stallman directs the Free
| Software Foundation, which, through its GNU Project (www.gnu.org),
| administers the licenses that make Linux and other free software
| available. Faced with frequent puzzlement over how "free software"
| could be free if it cost money (and is able to support
| billion-dollar investments from the likes of IBM, in the case
| of Linux), Stallman came up with a simple explanation: "think
| of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'"
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/02/18/free_beer/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Ideas+Section
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