KDE 4.1 Alpha1 Live Download
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| Stephan Binner’s openSUSE KDE 4.1 Alpha1 Live has been uploaded and is there
| for you to try. It is the first real release of the KDE 4.1 branch after
| almost 45000 commits and is the result of 4 months of steady KDE development.
| It has rough edges, but it is a nice preview of things shaping up to become
| usable and ready for the KDE loving user.
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http://blog.linuxoss.com/2008/05/02/kde-41-alpha1-live-download/
Joomla! and the latest trends in the open source revolution
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| As of February 2008, the official Joomla support forum, moderated by Brad
| Baker, has more than 260,000 threads and 1.2 million posts from more than
| 170,000 registered members in 40 languages.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1632521361&rid=-219
Recent:
Open Source Joomla Emerges as a Top CMS Tool
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| The Joomla website proclaims that, "Joomla is one of the most powerful open
| source content management systems on the planet." Sure, they're biased about
| their collaborative open source creation. But there's no arguing that Joomla
| is quickly becoming one of the top content management system (CMS) platforms
| on the Internet. Late last year Joomla won the best PHP Open Source Web CMS
| award.
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http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200803/ij_03_20_08a.html
WordPress is Open Source
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| Six Apart has recently decided that the best way to win back customers
| fleeing their platforms is to target WordPress, which is a new strategy they
| call competing. (What have they been doing the past 7 years?) A good example
| is this exchange between a commenter on Valleywag and Byrne Reese, the lead
| developer of Movable Type:
|
| Sundown: “@anildash: what part of Wordpress is not open source?”
|
| byrnereese: “@Sunnduwn - I think that is a question better asked of
| Automattic. Anil, and certainly not Six Apart, has never been briefed, nor
| has anyone for that matter been presented with an accounting of what is open
| and closed source at Automattic.”
|
| Okay, here’s some accounting:
|
| WordPress is 100% open source, GPL.
|
| All plugins in the official directory are GPL or compatible, 100% open
| source.
|
| bbPress is 100% GPL.
|
| WordPress MU is 100% open source, GPL, and if you wanted you could take it
| and build your own hosted platform like WordPress.com, like edublogs.org has
| with over 100,000 blogs.
|
| There is more GPL stuff on the way, as well. :)
|
| Could you build Typepad or Vox with Movable Type? Probably not, especially
| since people with more than a few blogs or posts say it grinds to a halt, as
| Metblogs found before they switched to WordPress.
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http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordpress-is-open-source/
How The GPL Can Save Your Ass
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| If you are the multi-billion dollar IT industry you stick you head in the
| sand and just keep making cars. It is after all, not your problem. That seems
| to be the attitude of almost every company with a vested interest in the
| computing market. There was a recent announcement indicating Intel and
| Microsoft have put up $10 million to fund research in parallel software. Hah!
| I'm going to laugh harder this time HAH, HAH! Ever here the phase pissing in
| the ocean, well this is more like throwing a match into the sun. We need
| more -- much more.
|
| [...]
|
| Second, the entire in industry must co-operate and be involved. We need
| everyone working on this problem. The best minds in high performance
| computing have been at it for quite a while and it is time to turn up the
| volume. Fantasies of telling your R&D guys to get on it are not enough.
| Trying to corral your Intellectual Property (IP) with trade secrets and
| patents is wishful thinking. The rocket scientists (and plenty of other smart
| people) have been working on this issue for a long time. You don't have the
| time to waste trying to expand your IP fiefdom. Instead start thinking about
| what happens when the next generation of products is of absolutely no
| interest to your customers.
|
| Third we need to respond quickly. There is no time for IP agreements,
| posturing, and NIH ego trips (Not Invented Here). We need leaders to
| recognize the scope and magnitude of this challenge and act. Before too long,
| it will not be unreasonable to have four or even eight cores in a desktop. A
| workstation or server may have double this amount. It would sure be nice if
| my software could effectively use all these cores.
|
| [...]
|
| Using the GPL will immediately remove issues that would normally choke such
| an important undertaking. First, the any IP barriers get pushed aside and
| everyone can cooperate openly
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5379
Related:
Joomla Awarded Best Open Source CMS
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| The Joomla team has been having a great year and it seems the end
| is no where in sight.
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http://www.cmswire.com/cms/open-source-cms/joomla-awarded-best-open-source-cms-000894.php
Ladies and Gentlemen... [Joomla! 1.5]
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| It is with great pride that the Joomla! community announces to the world the
| immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5 Stable [Khepri]. As a community of
| contributors, we have been through celebrations and tribulations. We have had
| fun, and we have worked hard. We have learned from and helped one another.
| What started two and a half years ago with a letter to the community has
| grown into a great opportunity for both the Joomla! project and community to
| benefit from these efforts and to consider our future.
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http://www.joomla.org/content/view/4488/1/
Joomla! - the licence stays the same
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| Christopher Justice says: "...we haven't changed the license and we
| have no plans to. We have raised the visibility of the GPL and we're
| encouraging a better understanding of the GPL. It is our view that
| extensions are derivative works and therefore we encourage all
| extensions to be GPL compliant. The Joomla! community has grown to
| over 110,000 members with the same license and a huge community of
| commercial and non-commercial developers. There are some non-GPL
| compliant extensions but the majority of the extensions available
| are GPL. As the project continues to grow, we'll focus more on GPL
| extensions to build a stronger and more open project and community."
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13303&Itemid=1091
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