CeBIT News and Articles

User Revolts

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

31.01.2011
User revolts and forks may not be harmful to free software development, but they are still signs of the times that should be given more attention.
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My first look at DIASPORA*

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

21.01.2011
DIASPORA*, the free software alternative to Facebook, appears to be at least trying to take privacy issues seriouslyl.
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The limits of evangelism

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

10.01.2011
How do you persuade people they want something that they don't know exists -- and refuse to believe in?
floss , free software , Linux New Media , Linux Pro Magazine , open source
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Severed Fifth: Bringing the Free Culture Movement to the Music Industry

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

01.01.2011
Jono Bacon and Severed Fifth are applying lessons learned from FOSS to experiment with a new model for the music industry.
floss , free software , Linux Magazine , Linux New Media , Linux Pro Magazine , open source
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Wikileaks and the Choice Between Openness and Secrecy

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

21.12.2010
Choosing openness over secrecy seems a no-brainer -- until you apply it to a real life situation. Then, things start getting ambiguous.
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Waiting for the rapture

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

14.12.2010
Members of the FOSS community sometimes seem their own worst enemies, But sometimes you have to make a gesture of support anyway.
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FocusWriter, Wannabes and Practicing Writers

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

09.12.2010
Why does software for writers reflect the wannabes more than the practicing writers?
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Ryzom MMORPG releases native GNU/Linux client

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

30.11.2010
You don't have to be a game to see Ryzom's release of a native GNU/Linux client as an important step for free software.
floss , free software , Linux New Media , Linux Pro Magazine , open source
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CeBIT Open Source 2011: Call for Projects Extended

29.11.2010

CeBIT, the IT trade show to be held in Hannover, Germany on March 1-5, 2011, has extended the Call for Projects deadline until December 12, 2010.

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2011 Predictions

COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK: Which projects, people, products, and events will capture our attention in 2011?

Rikki asks the Magic 8 Ball (actually, her Facebook friends) what 2011 will bring. Also, updates on Gnome and CeBIT.

CeBIT , fedora , Gnome , KDE , libreoffice , OpenOffice , Opensuse , Oracle , Programming , Python
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