Christmas is coming (III): The Gift of Freedom

It may sound hackneyed, it may sound trite, but many of the best things in life are free. Seriously. Even for Christmas. And not only in the not-costing-any-money sense of the word either. Free Software is on the rise and many apps targeted at end-users are as good, sometimes better, than expensive proprietary alternatives.

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Using Trademarks to Stifle Free Software

The news today is that GNOME, the organisation behind one of the two most popular free and open Linux desktops, may lose the exclusive use of its name over a trademark spat. It turns out the Groupon, the deal-of-the-day website, has brought out a point-of-sale tablet called GNOME, the same as the GNU/Linux desktop environment.…

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A Library In Spaaaaaace

Isn’t this one of those uplifting projects that restores your faith in humanity? A group of geeks are taking over a bunch of satellites to beam useful information down to Earth that everybody, wherever they are, can receive. Dubbed “Humanity’s public Library”, Outernet, which is still in an early testing phase, intends to provide information…

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