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Developer Linux News for Feb 19, 2004
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OSNews: A Customer-Driven Approach to Open Software: "Community Code" (Feb 19, 2004, 23:30)
"The Open Source model--and by Open Source we mean products that
adhere to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) guidelines--doesn't, and
may never, work for many important software domains..."
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internetnews.com: Windows Leak An Experiment in Open Source? (Feb 19, 2004, 22:00)
"Some programmers contacted by internetnews.com say many in
their community are wary of even looking at the code in order to
avoid inflaming intellectual property issues over software
copyrights..."
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ESR: Let Java Go, Round 2 (Feb 19, 2004, 20:00)
"It is possible that Mr. Phipps's full remarks are more
sensible; I certainly hope they are, as the excerpts suggest an
astonishing lack of professionalism on someone's part..."
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OfB.biz: Stallman Responds to XFree86 License Change (Feb 19, 2004, 14:00)
"With such a large controversy surrounding the license, we
decided to ask Free Software Foundation founder and president
Richard M. Stallman about the issue..."
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MIT Technology Review: Keeping an Eye on Google (Feb 19, 2004, 11:30)
"Cutting's remedy is an open-source search engine, called Nutch,
that uses ranking algorithms similar to Google's, but with a
twist..."
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Release Digest: KDE, February 18, 2004 (Feb 19, 2004, 05:00)
Today's KDE apps: KMyFirewall 0.9.6.2, taxipilot 0.9.01, KRadio
2004-02-17 Snapshot, and Planets 3D.
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Release Digest: GNOME, February 18, 2004 (Feb 19, 2004, 05:00)
Today's GNOME apps: gThumb 2.3.1, GNOME Terminal 2.5.5, gcompris
5.2, Conglomerate 0.7.12, gURLChecker 0.7.8, Qalculate! 0.4, and
Straw 0.22.
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DistroWatch: Distributions, February 18, 2004 (Feb 19, 2004, 05:00)
Today's distributions: clusterKNOPPIX 3.3-2004-02-16,
SystemRescueCD 0.2.11, Feather Linux 0.3.6, KnoppiXMAME 1.2.1, and
cAos 1.0.
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TechNewsWorld: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit? (Feb 19, 2004, 00:00)
"But any CIO or CFO who hasn't heard that this is the method of
the open-source community--and who will be going through an IT
audit--will probably be reaching for the heart-attack pills about
now..." Enderle on the community reaction to the leaked Windows
code.
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