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"Frugalista" Debate: One Blogger Stakes Claim
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| The term "frugalista," which is so widely used that
| even the Oxford English Dictionary defines it, has
| now been trademarked by Natalie P. McNeal, a Miami
| Herald blogger, causing a brouhaha in the world of
| personal finance bloggers. McNeal's lawyer has been
| sending letters to other bloggers who call
| themselves "frugalistas," informing them that they
| must immediately stop doing so.
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http://www.usnews.com/money/blogs/alpha-consumer/2009/09/18/frugalista-debate-one-blogger-stakes-claim.html
Recent:
Welcome to the Kids Open Dictionary Builder.
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| The purpose of this project is to create a free, open simple dictionary for
| students to use. This dictionary will ultimately be published in a variety
| of formats and for multiple platforms.
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http://dictionary.k12opened.com/index.php
Abusing âOpenâ: Macmillanâs Open Dictionary
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| Jonathan recently wrote about the availability of open dictionaries. In
| a recent comment to that post someone pointed us to Macmillanâs âOpenâ
| Dictionary (the reasons for the quotes will soon be apparent).
|
| [...]
|
| Such potential for abuse of the âopenâ label is a major reason we
| created the open definition â where open content and data are clearly
| defined as material that you, and others, are free to use, reuse and
| redistribute without restriction.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2009/09/09/abusing-open-macmillans-open-dictionary/
Related:
Open source online Maori dictionary launched
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| The free and open software system is distributed under the GPL version 2
| licence, and is registered with Sourceforge. It is built on the Linux
| platform, running Debian, and uses Postgres and the Catalyst web framework.
| The system can run on âancient hardwareâ and cost of ownership is near
| nothing, says Moskovitz.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/DC86611A0D4E000ECC2574940004CB76
The Microsoft-English Dictionary 1.5
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| Legal, Marketing, and Internet Community Terms
|
| "BSD License" - (1)(n) - A form open source license that is acceptable to
| Microsoft because it permits Microsoft to integrate BSD licensed products
| and charge money for them without releasing source code (e.g. the Windows
| 95 TCP/IP stack). (Stross.)
|
| "Cancer" - (1)(n) - Microsoft metaphor describing Linux and the open
| source software movement. In reality, the term best describes Microsoft's
| own products, starting off small and then growing, spreading, and usually
| having negative effects on its host, often requiring software "doctors"
| and utilities to restore or recover such problems. Like cancer in the
| human body, many hosts have been disabled or killed by such organisims.
| See also "Swap Files" and "Temp Files."
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| "Community Service" - (1)(v) - Microsoft process of flooding K-12 schools
| with its products - under the guise of 'community service' - that costs
| the schools very little but creates legions of adults that only know
| Microsoft products, thus creating thousands of new, paying users. (2)
| (v) - The process used by Microsoft to 'donate' software to schools but
| not provide information on if, when, or how recipients will be forced to
| upgrade or license future products, thus trapping more educational
| institutions in Microsoft's grip. (Lewis)
|
| "Consent Decree" - (1)(n) - Court orders requiring a company to behave in
| a certain manner, usually as part of a court-ordered punishment. (2)(n) -
| Something akin to a "no-no note" that Microsoft routinely chooses to
| ignore while proceeding with its overly-aggressive business practices.
|
| "Cross-Platform" - (1)(n) - Industry standard definition for a product
| that runs on multiple computing environments (See "Platform"). (2)(n) -
| Microsoft's marketing term used to mean a product that runs on any of
| Microsoft's 'platforms.' (e.g., Microsoft's Java is 'cross-platform'
| since it runs on Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, and XP.)
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http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/msdictionary.html
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