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Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test
30th Anniversary of the (No Good) Spreadsheet
Linux 2.6.27 Out
An Open Source Legal Breakthrough
Apps That Officially Support Wine
How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code
Wayland, a New X Server For Linux
Logfiles Made Interesting with glTail
Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free
TWiki.net Kicks Out All TWiki Contributors
A Visual Walkthrough of New Features in Vim 7.0
(Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks?
Algorithms Can Make You Pretty
IBM Launches Microsoft-Free Linux Virtual Desktop
Linux Now an Equal Flash Player
Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0
OpenOffice Vs. Google Apps
Survey Says C Dominated New '08 Open-Source Projects
Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android
iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook
Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld
ESA Embraces Open Source With New SAR Toolbox
Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All
Microsoft Introduces Pay-as-You-Go Computing
Microsoft Working On Its Own App Store
Mono 2.0 and .NET On Linux
OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows
Opera Mini Not Rejected From iPhone (Yet)
The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems
Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09
(Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks?
2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux
Adobe Flaw Heightens Risk of Malicious PDFs
AjaxWrite to "Compete" with MS Word
An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0
Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux
Computer-Aided Lego Art Project
Cost-Conscious Companies Turn To Open Source
Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September
Errors in Spreadsheets are Pandemic
FSFE Launches Free PDF Readers Campaign
GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait
GPL Violations On Windows Go Unnoticed?
Google Chrome Tops Browser Speed Tests
Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web
IE Market Share Drops Below 70%
India Decides to Vote "No" For OOXML
Microsoft Tag, Smartphone-Scannable Barcodes
Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software
Open Source Speech Recognition
OpenDocument Voted In By ISO
Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork
Red Hat to Coax Code Contributions From Companies
TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive
DoD Study Urges OSS Adoption
Firefox 3 Beta 1 Review
Google Launches Online Spreadsheet System
Microsoft Claims OpenDocument is Too Slow
OpenOffice 2.3 Released
Tools To Automate Checking of Software Design
Unusual Open Source
A 3D Curve Sketching System For Tablets
Amazon S3 Adds Option To Make Data Accessors Pay
Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal
Best Developer Tools for OS X
Breathalyzer Source Code Revealed
Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform Now Free
Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester
Do "Illegal" Codecs Actually Scare Linux Users?
Evolution of a 100% Free Software-Based Publisher
Games All Downhill Since Pong?
Hypervisors Can Defeat GPLv3's Anti-Tivoization
If This Was a Month Ago, OOXML Would Be Over
Interclue and What Going Proprietary Can Do
Is Showmypc.com an Open Source Pretender?
Is Windows Vista in Trouble?
Italian Red Lights Rigged With Short Yellow Light
Mandriva Linux 2008 RC 1 Released
Microsoft Reinvents Bittorrent
Modern LaTeX Replacement?
Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead
OS/2 Community Tries Bounty System
Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors
OpenDocument Plans Questioned by Disabled
Tearing Down China's Great Firewall
The Case Against Web Apps
The Secret Lives of Ubuntu and Debian Users
Thomson Reuters Sues Over Open-Source Endnote-Alike Zotero
Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers
Women's Attractiveness Judged by Software
Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer
2008 - Year of Linux Desktop?
A Preview of Opera 9.5
AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network
Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps
Ebay and Microsoft Fight Software Piracy
French Kids Get OSS on USB Sticks
GCC 4.2.1 Released
GUIs From 1984 to the Present
Google Pushes Open Source OCR
Has Open Source Lost Its Halo?
Measure Anything with a Camera and Software
Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux?
Office 2007 Delayed Again
Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software
Pirating Software? Choose Microsoft!
Software Engineers Ranked Best Job in America
The 100 Best Tech Products of 2006
The Pirated Software Problem in the 3rd World
Thunderbird in Crisis?
Visualizing Open Source Contributions
What's In Your Inbox?
Why Buggy Software Gets Shipped
The Future of Closed Source Software and Linux
10-Year Anniversary of Open Source
45% of Dutch Media-Buying Population Are "Pirates"
8 Myths of Software-as-a-Service
9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features
A Software License That's Libre But Not Gratis?
AACS Vows to Fight Bloggers
Acme for Windows
After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released
An Early Look At New Features In OpenOffice.org 3.1
Apple Quietly Releases Safari 3.2
Asus Ships Eee PCs With Malware
Best Easter Eggs and Other Software Surprises
Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms?
BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense"
Borland Announces the Return of the Turbo Products, with Video
Bossie Awards Honor Open Source Software
Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3?
Cleopatra the Electronic Home Attendant
Croatia Adopts Open Source Policy
Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers
Delving into the Commercial P2P World
Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?
Do Software Versions Really Matter?
Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source
End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging
FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus
Gaim Renamed — Now Pidgin IM
Google Bundles Toolbar With Adobe Apps
Google Earth Gets Star-Gazing Add On
Google Releases Tesseract as Open Source
Governments, Beyond the Open Source Hype
HD Video Editing with Blender
How Do You Document Technical Procedures?
How Fast is Your Turnaround Time?
How PDAs Are Saving Lives In Africa
IE8 Beta 2 Fatter Than Firefox and XP
Identifying (and Fixing) Failing IT Projects
Internal Instant Messaging Client / Server Combo?
Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
KOffice 1.5 Released
Know Any Hardware Needing Better Linux Support?
Konami Slot Machines Flashing Subliminal Messages?
Koreans Advised to "Avoid Vista" for Now
Linspire's CNR Goes Multi-Distro
Living Free With Linux, Round 2
Lone Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux
MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems
Make Your Own Fonts, In a Web Browser
Michael Meeks Says OO.o Project is "Profoundly Sick"
Microsoft Reaches Out To Blender
Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora
NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office
NeoOffice 2.2.1 Available For Mac
Netscape Finally Put Down
Open Letter to ISO Calls For Standardization of Process
OpenDocument Foundation Closes
OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF
OpenOffice Five Times As Popular As Google Docs
PC Historian Finds Puzzling Game Diskette Image
PDF Is Now ISO 32000
PhD Research On Software Design Principles?
Privacy Web Browser 'Browzar' Branded Adware
Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling?
Real-World Firefox 3 Memory Usage Leads the Field
Russian Google Competitor Embraces Open Source Messaging
Silverlight Released, Linux Version Coming
Spanish Region Goes Entirely Open Source
StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack
Suggestions For Cheap Metrics Eye Candy Software?
Sun's McNealy Wants Obama to Push Open Source
The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008
The Contradictory Nature of OOXML
The Finns Who Invented the Graphical Browser
The Really Fair Scheduler
The Trouble With Software Upgrades
Trolltech Adopts GPL 3 for Qt
US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma
VIA Announces Open Source Driver Initiative
Virgin America Uses Linux to Entertain Inflight
What 2008 May Hold In Store for FOSS
What Happens Next on the US Vote on OOXML
What's the Right Amount of Copy Protection?
Working Toward a Patent-Agnostic Open Source License

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