On March 21st, Richard Stallman delivered the keynote at the LibrePlanet 2015 conference. In typical RMS fashion, instead of concentrating on one concrete topic, he run through a list of topics that had been bothering him lately, all with the common underlying theme of the dangers of the threats to users’ freedoms.
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Microsoft announced yesterday they were publishing an IDE dubbed Visual Studio Code that works on MacOS X and, surprise, Linux. It would seem Linus Torvald’s “I won” is now past due. Not so fast.
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I guess I’m insecure like that, but I often find myself trying to rationalise my affinity for Free Software. How I do this is by arguing in my head with imaginary detractors. As I understand it, putting your ideas into words and then bombarding them with “Yes, buts” and “What ifs” is the base of…
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VLC is an amazing piece of software. Apart from an all-round media player that plays every kind of video and audio format imaginable, you can use it to stream to you network, capture clips from your webcam, and even use it to build a motion detection system.
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VLC is arguably the most popular of all media players. Downloaded over 1.3 billion times (yes, that’s “billion” with a “b”), this free and open source player not only has excellent support for nearly every video and audio formats out there, but also let’s you convert from one format to another, and stream (and receive…
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Fresh off the presses: LibreOffice reveals the project that will go head to head with Microsoft’s 365 online suite: LibreOffice Online (LOOL).
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Vi Hart, the immensely entertaining mathematician/piano player and vlogger, has put out a video that, in classic Hartish fashion, explains the cause and the issues behind the attack on Net Neutrality in terms everybody can understand and without actually dumbing down the matter.
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Inge Wallin, a developer of KDE’s office productivity suite, Calligra, has just released the very first KDE-specific AI library. Wallin, who has previously designed AIs for commercial games, wrote the library because he thought that the AIs of many of KDE’s games were weak. Although the library is still in its early stages of development,…
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We finally managed to catch up with Bryce Harrington, one of the original founders of Inkscape and the current Lead Developer. Bryce had been a bit under the weather, but he was game to doing the interview live over IRC. We met up on the #inkscape channel on Freenode at 5 pm. Pacific Time (Bryce),…
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Following up from our piece on the new Inkscape 0.91, we have just posted two videos explaining basic usage of Inkscape to our YouTube channel. Our first video teaches you how to start using Inkscape, drawing shapes, modifying them by manipulating nodes, and colouring them in, with an example in which we draw a cow.…
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The team that develop Inkscape, the open source vector drawing software for Linux, Windows and Mac, has recently brought out their version 0.91. Apart from many bug fixes and improved stability, it includes new functionalities and changes to the interface that make it easier and more powerful to use.
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A feel good story for today: after months of making very little progress, the GPG crowdfunding campaign took off last night big time after Julia Angwin published an article about the project’s dire financial situation in ProPublica.
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