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more »Stallman Quits Emacs Maintainer Job
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more »AMD Goes Open Source with APL
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more »GCC Developers Publish Bugfix Release
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more »FOSDEM 2008: Jam-packed program, free video stream
Feb 01, 2008The annual developers’ conference FOSDEM will take place in Brussels on February 23 and 24, 2008. As a teaser, organizers of the open-source event have now placed interviews with some of the speakers online.
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