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OSQA.net - Every Question About Open Source Answered
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| OSQA is a specialized questions and answers
| website. It deals with Open Source and its
| every ramification. The site is absolutely
| free to join, and it can be entirely used at
| no cost too.
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http://www.killerstartups.com/User-Gen-Content/osqa-net-every-question-about-open-source-answered
Open source, priceless resource
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| I was told once about someone called a âcyber
| hippie.â They dual boot with Linux and Mac
| OSX or Windows. They use open source
| browsers, instant messengers and office
| suites. They write their own code. They
| essentially live on Slashdot in lieu of
| professional news sites. The sinking
| realization that this idea may be true
| brought a certain horror to my thoughts, as I
| have a generally low opinion of anyone who
| claims to be a âhippie,â probably from too
| much South Park during my formative years.
|
| It created an interesting dichotomy in my
| mind: Are the users of open source software
| the hippies of the Internet underworld and
| the users of closed-source software (MacOS,
| Windows) the conservatives?
|
| [...]
|
| Weâve ended up with a lot of great things
| from open source development in forms of
| freeware clones: Pidgin Instant Messenger,
| Cinelerra (video editing software), the Ogg
| Vorbis media format for audio and video,
| OpenOffice.org and, of course, Mozilla
| Firefox.
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http://www.dailyemerald.com/opinion/open-source-priceless-resource-1.1219205
Related:
Novell sheds (a little) more light on its patent access deal
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| Q. How does Microsoft promising not sue Novell customers gives
| Novell engineers sanctioned access to Microsoft code?
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| [...]
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| In fact, I would suggest that the answer to the first question makes it
| clear that the patent access granted by the technical collaboration
| agreement and the patent covenant not to sue customers are completely
| unrelated.
|
| It certainly appears to be at odds with Steinman's earlier statement: "the
| intellectual property agreement provided a foundation for the
| interoperability between Windows and SUSE Linux Enterprise".
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/05/novell_sheds_a.html
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