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The GStreamer, Cairo Video Hackfest Results
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| Last month we talked about a hackfest to
| improve Linux video playback that came
| about after a GNOME developer began work on
| using Cairo/Pixman for raw video in
| GStreamer and looking at other ways to
| leverage hardware acceleration within this
| major open-source multimedia framework.
| This Linux video meeting started in
| Barcelona on Thursday and is ending today,
| with some accomplishments.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzcyOA
Does Linus Torvalds deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for Linux?
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| Coincidentally, Torvalds was named after
| 1962 Nobel Peace Prize winner Linus
| Pauling, but the reason he has been put
| forth is because of Torvaldâs work in
| developing the Linux kernel, which has
| subsequently formed the basis of many
| global projects that collectively make the
| world a better place.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29543/1141/
Recent:
Three Economic Nobel Laureates In A Row Recognizing Power Of Infinite Goods
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| With the Nobel Prize in Economics being awarded to
| Elinor Ostrom (as well as Oliver Williamson) this
| year, plenty of people are noting that Ostrom's
| seminal work has to do with how the concept of
| "the tragedy of the commons" isn't really true in
| many cases, and how that "commons" can often self-
| regulate itself. And, Ostrom definitely recognizes
| how this applies to the "commons" that is the
| public domain. I didn't want to comment right away
| on this. While I've read Ostrom's work in the
| past, I wanted to revisit some of it, to refresh
| myself on it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091014/1453016535.shtml
I never won a Nobel Peace Prize.
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| I woke up on the morning of October 9th to
| find that President Obama had won the Nobel
| Peace Prize.
|
| There was a lot of discussion about whether
| President Obama had "earned" the honor or
| not, and a lot of discussion about how the
| Nobel Peace Prize is not always for what
| you have done, but encouraging you to keep
| going in what you are doing.
|
| As I read his acceptance speech, I thought
| about Free and Open Source Software, and
| applied parts of his speech to my favorite
| subject.
|
| "Let me be clear, I do not view it as a
| recognition of my own accomplishments"
|
| A lot of people have said to me, "Thank you
| for what you do for Free Software". I tell
| them that I was someone who was in a
| particular place at a particular time. I
| did what I thought needed doing, and what I
| had skills to do.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/I-never-won-a-Nobel-Peace-Prize
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