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[News] A Look at Grendel; Limitations of Free Software Development

  • Subject: [News] A Look at Grendel; Limitations of Free Software Development
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:01:45 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Grendel: free/open source software for protecting your cloud data

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| Marc Hedlund sez, "Wesabe just open sourced 
| a project called Grendel that makes it easy 
| for web apps to encrypt data using the 
| user's login password, and only decrypt that 
| data when the user is logged in. Let's say 
| you're using a word processing web app and 
| don't want your documents stored plaintext 
| -- the web app could use Grendel to easily 
| encrypt your docs for you, using OpenPGP. 
| Log in and you can edit; log out and only 
| you can get at the data again (since only 
| you have your password). There are some 
| hooks for encrypting with multiple keys if 
| you want to share docs with selected other 
| users on the system. Since people are 
| throwing a ton of sensitive data in web apps 
| these days I think having some tools to help 
| make that safer would be a good thing." 
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/11/grendel-freeopen-sou.html

In an ideal worldâ

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| â every Free Software project should not 
| only have developers, but also
| 
|     * graphical artists
|     * usability experts
|     * user support specialists
|     * documentation writers/translators
|     * software translators
|     * bug triagers
|     * marketing ninjas
|     * community managers
|     * release managers
|     * website and wiki maintainers
|     * unlimited fundsâ
| 
| Amarok is very lucky to have most of those. 
| No, not the unlimited funds, sadly, thats 
| one of the reasons why we ask our dear users 
| and Amarok lovers to support us with 
| donations, it allows us for example to 
| maintain our server,  which in turn can host 
| other Free Software projects of the KDE 
| family like Konversation.
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/01/in-an-ideal-world
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Recent:

Amarok 2.2.2 "Maya Gold" Released

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| A Happy New Year to all of you! We hope you all
| had a nice holiday season, ate yummy meals and
| enjoyed some quality time with your family and
| friends. While doing exactly the same as
| everybody, the Amarok developers did also sneak
| out in the middle of the night to sit at their
| computers and add a bugfix here, a usability
| improvement there, and polish all around to make
| sure you will truly enjoy our new release:
| Amarok 2.2.2!
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http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.2.2
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