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more »Rankings of the Most Influential Open Source Voices
Mar 25, 2010Mark Fidelman from the open source centered company Mindtouch, has devised a method of establishing who has the strongest influence in the open source community. The result is a list of the Most Powerful Voices (MPV) by rank.
more »Skipfish Security Scanner for Web Apps
Mar 24, 2010Google's online security teams has come out with a free security scanner for web apps, named Skipfish.
more »The Ubuntu One Music Store Now Online
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more »Swiss Education IT Agency Campaigns Against Microsoft Live@edu
Mar 22, 2010The Swiss federal agency known as Schweizerische Fachstelle für Informationstechnologien (SFIB) or Centre suisse des technologies de l'information dans l'enseignement (CTIE) has studied the user licenses for Microsoft products in Swiss schools. The result is a warning against the licensing and a recommendation to use open source products.
more »5 Years of Google Code: Google Doubles Source Code Storage
Mar 19, 2010Five years ago, Google started placing internal projects under a free license and with Google Summer of Code, began its support of the open source scene.
more »Qt 4.7 Preview for N900
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more »Ubuntu One Music Store: Tops or Flop?
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