We all hear about the Open Source movement, we love the ideas and principles it espouses and the liberties it will surely give those of us who need those liberties.
These liberties extend to far further than just the civil liberties it obviously garners, but to liberties that are far more...
Apple: Worse for open source than Microsoft?
Things need to change and Apple needs to be seen for what it really is: a threat to innovation and freedom.
I've started the process to translate the Silverstripe CMS into Afrikaans. I'm doing what I can, but my native language is English. Any takers, apply at translate.silverstripe.org.
Any help would be appreciated. This is an awesome Open Source (BSD license) CMS that could go far.
Major release - introduces new features, new formats and new codecs and fixes bugs that were present in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions.
Download VLC Player 1.0.0. here
As you may have guessed by now, this is one of my interests. So it is always enlightening to see what people are saying about the subject. We recently came across the attitude on this board that Open Source is not viable... Can't remember the thread, I'll find it if you push me. Anyway...
The guys who released the first "open source" movie, "Elephants Dream" have now released a new one: "Big Buck Bunny".. :)
These are CG animation films created entirely with open source software, and are themselves released under a creative commons free license.. :D
I'll say that they...
I admit, I'm really thinking of donating a bit of my cash to Mozilla for inventing Firefox :D:D:D
Has anyone here donated money or skills towards open source companies? :confused:
Hi all.
I am a matric IT student. As a result we are required to Complete 3 Major projects for the end of the year, one of which is a Research Project.
The topic of my research project is: The prevalence of Open Source Software, Operating Systems and Databases in South African Business.
I...
Sites for Completely Free and Legal Software!
This thread is specifically for Freeware and Open Source Software.
(No Warez, Cracks, Serialz or links to copyrighted software please!)
CD & DVD Burning, Discs and Disk Images
Image Manipulation, Drawing and Photo Editing
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