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Hold The Celebrations; H.264 Is Not The Sort Of Free That Matters

LWN: Over at ComputerWorld UK, Simon Phipps says there is nothing to celebrate in the recent announcement [PDF] that MPEG-LA will not charge royalties on "web uses" of the H.264 codec for the remaining life of the patents it administers. "First, the H.264-format video needs to be created - but that isn't free under this move.

Open Source Benefits from 7th Circle of Apple Hell

A friend had trouble with their iPhone yesterday and enlisted me in a trip to the Apple Store.
(The Apple store in Lenox Square Mall, Atlanta, from Apple.com.)
Three hours later I realized that Apple is back in the same box Steve Jobs put it in over 25 years ago.
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New Wine: Running Windows Music & Sound Applications Under Wine 1.2

KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 Released

The KDE team has announced the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 less than a month after the release of KDE SC 4.5.0...
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Open Contact with Open Compliance Officers

There’s nothing quite like having an urgent issue to pursue with a company – a real thorn in your side – and lacking a name or phone number to contact for follow-up.   (Once upon a time, I reserved a domain name, customerfeedbackplace.com, intending to aggregate all the world’s corporate customer feedback sites in one place for consumer convenience.  But that’s a story for another day.) What do you do if you’re an open source developer – a copyright holder – and you have concerns about the open source compliance of a product tha

Report: Next Generation of Btrfs Linux Filesystem Nears Prime Time

Since at least 2008, the Btrfs Linux filesystem has been talked about as a next-generation technology one day potentially rivalling or supplanting the current dominant Linux filesystems.
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The People Who Support Linux: It's a Family Affair

Linux.com profiles Alex Hooper and how she uses Linux, along with the whole family. A freelance graphic artist, her favorite open source project is GIMP...
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Dreamwidth Studios: Bringing the Corner Store to Open Source Publishing

Dreamwidth Studios' co-founder Denise Paolucci remembers growing up in a family-owned corner deli, some of whose customers had been eating there daily for decades. "They'd become part of the family, instead of faceless customers," she says. "That's stayed with me for my whole life. It's a business concept that you don't see much in today's world" — and one that Paolucci and co-founder Mark Smith decided would be part of Dreamwidth Studios' open source publishing platform from the start.

Fedora 14 Alpha Gets ROOT

"The first alpha of Red Hat's Fedora 14 Linux is now avail, and it sure has a very long list of new features. There are improvements to security, performance and virtualization as well as some interesting new analysis technology."
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Firefox 4 Beta 4 Out Today, Feature Complete Beta 6 Slated for Sept 10

The Mozilla team released the fourth beta of Firefox 4 today but don’t expect feature freeze code until September.
According to meeting notes posted today, the team aims to release beta 5 this Friday and is aiming to post the feature-frozen beta 6 on September 10.
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