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A Response to Franklin Street
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| The Franklin Street Statement begins:
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| The current generation of network services or Software as a Service can
| provide advantages over traditional, locally installed software in ease
| of deployment, collaboration, and data aggregation. Many users have begun
| to rely on such services in preference to software provisioned by
| themselves or their organizations. This move toward centralization has
| powerful effects on software freedom and user autonomy.
|
| On March 16, 2008, a workgroup convened at the Free Software Foundation
| to discuss issues of freedom for users given the rise of network
| services.
|
|
| [...]
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| Perhaps Franklin Street needs its own version of a GNU project: a vision for
| the new OS and an engineering plan for how to achieve it.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/8/31/48505
Recent:
identi.ca creator Evan Prodromou explains why he's taking on Twitter (video)
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| Bzzz.... bzzz...... bzzz...... That's not the sound of bees. It's the buzz
| surrounding new, open source Twitter competitor identi.ca. Creator Evan
| Prodromou sat down at OSCON in front of Linux.com's video camera and
| explained what identi.ca is all about and why it's suddenly such a hot item
| that he's been meeting with multiple venture capitalists -- and can be
| cavalier enough about those meetings that he canceled one to work on some
| code bugs that were bothering him instead.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/142676
Identi.ca Launches, an Open Source Twitter
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| Evan Prodromou, one of the better citizens of the wiki community and founder
| of WikiTravel, launched Identi.ca today. Its a Twitter clone that is also
| distributed as Open Source licensed software.
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http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2008/07/identica-launch.html
Laconica: Can Open Source Save Twitter?
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| Lots of people are addicted to microblogging service Twitter - including
| substantial chunks of some open source communities. There are a fair number
| of Ruby on Rails developers twittering these days, for example. But Twitter's
| scaling and reliability issues lately have many people wondering whether it's
| time to look for an alternative. Identi.ca, backed by open source package
| Laconica, wants to be that alternative.
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http://ostatic.com/167237-blog/laconica-can-open-source-save-twitter
Could An Open Source "Twittersphere" Save Twitter? Or Kill It?
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| Is Twitter too important to be left in the hands of Twitter? That's the
| argument that bubbled up over the weekend. The argument is that Twitter is
| not distributed. This means that if Twitter goes down no one can Twitter. It
| also means if Twitter goes out of business, or just screws up, we could lose
| all of our tweet history.
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http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/could_an_open_source_twittersphere_save_twitter_or_kill_it_
Four Twitter clients for Linux
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| Is there a single best of show among these clients? If you like using Opera,
| its Twitter widget is my top recommendation. If you're using Firefox, you
| can't go wrong with TwitBin. gTwitter is a good, general, easy-to-use client.
| For now, I recommend not using Twitux, but that may change as the application
| matures.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/145144
An Overview of Twitter Clients for Linux
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| It's hard to pick a clear winner here.
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| Of the two native applications, I like Twitux best. It's simple, but it works
| well. The two Firefox extension clients are OK, but I'm not the type of
| person who always has Firefox open and in view, so using them regularly is
| probably not going to happen.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/overview-twitter-clients-linux
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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