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Open Source Stories

Happy Culture Freedom Day! 44
Patenting Open Source Software 60
Apache OpenOffice Downloaded 50 Million Times In a Year 155
Survey On the Future of Open Source, and Lessons From the Past 97
The New Yorker Launches 'Strongbox' For Secure Anonymous Leaks 94
Firefox 21 Arrives 246
Microsoft Developer Explains Why Windows Kernel Development Falls Behind 347
Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC1 Starts To Roll Out To Devices Near You 124
Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? 209
How Netflix Eats the Internet 303
80FFTs Per Second To Detect Whistles (and Switch On Lights) 154
OpenStreetMap Launches a New Easy To Use HTML5 Editor 53
450 Million Lines of Code Can't Be Wrong: How Open Source Stacks Up 209
Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") Released 191
Google and Adobe Contribute Open Source Rasterizer to FreeType 77
Turbulenz HTML5 Games Engine Goes Open Source 27
AMD's Open Source Linux Driver Trounces NVIDIA's 147
FSF Certifies Atheros-Based ThinkPenguin 802.11 N USB Adapter 85
New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices 194
Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source 182
KDevelop 4.5 Released 97
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Assess the Status of an Open Source Project? 110
MySQL Founders Reunite To Form SkySQL 215
Fedora 19 Alpha Released 83
Wikipedia Moved To MariaDB 5.5 133
Happy Hardware Freedom Day 35
Ask Slashdot: Service-Heavy FOSS Hosting? 75
LLVM Clang Compiler Now C++11 Feature Complete 291
Debian 7.0 ('Wheezy') Release Planned For 1st Weekend in May 226
Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed 630
OpenShot Close To Funding Final Stretch Goal: Video Editing Server 32
Wayland 1.1 Released — Now With Raspberry Pi Support 197
Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM 394
Intel Releases New OpenCL Implementation for GNU/Linux 60
Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project 62
LyX Joins the Google Summer of Code 2013 70
Repo Man Director Alex Cox Plans To Edit Next Film With OpenShot 105
KLyDE: Lightweight KDE Desktop In the Making 129
Open Source Radeon Gallium3D OpenCL Stack Adds Bitcoin Mining 140
Crowdfunding Open Source Software Enhancements and Bug Fixes 46
OpenWLANMap: Free WLAN-Based GPS Replacement 39
Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released 95
Mozilla Introduces Experimental Open Payment System For Firefox OS 68
NVIDIA Open-Sources 3D Driver For Tegra SoCs 54
Activision, Raven Release 2 Star Wars Games Under GPL 105
EdX Online Classroom Code Going Open Source, Uniting With Stanford 27
AMD Releases UVD Engine Source Code 79
Open Sauce Foundation Created 95
Wayland/Weston Gets Forked As Northfield/Norwood 252
Security Fix Leads To PostgreSQL Lock Down 100
GNOME 3.8 Released Featuring New "Classic" Mode 267
Google Pledges Not To Sue Any Open Source Projects Using Their Patents 153
The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals 58
MySQL's Creator On Why the Future Belongs To MariaDB 208
Enlightenment Terminal Allows Video Playback, PDF Viewing 114
Spanish Open Source Group Files Complaint Over Microsoft Use of UEFI Secure Boot 154
Apache CloudStack Becomes a Top-level Project 43
Longest Running Linux Distribution Slackware Adopts MariaDB 109
KDE's Calligra Office Suite For Android Released 61
2012 Free Software Award Winners Announced 43
KDE Releases Plasma Media Center 1.0 22
What's Going On In KDE Plasma Workspaces 2? 122
AirBNB Opensources Chronos, a Cron Replacement 72
The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Revolution OS 130
UK Government Mandates 'Preference' For Open Source 123
Modeling Color Spaces With Blender 35
Jacob Appelbaum on How OSS Improves Cryptography 35
Why Freeloaders Are Essential To FOSS Project Success 86
Trisquel 6.0 'Toutatis' Is Now Available 109
More From Canonical Employee On: "Why Mir?" 337
Drupal's Creator Aims For World Domination 192
Celebrate Hardware Freedom Day 2013 22
Multimorphic Teases Open Source Multi-Game Pinball 40
Proof-of-Concept Port of XBMC to SDL 2.0 and Wayland 81
Ask Slashdot: Where to Host Many Small, Related Projects? 69
Shuttleworth On Ubuntu Community Drama 302
Former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos Talks About Managing Remote Workers (Video) 100
KDE Releases Plasmate 1.0, A Plasma Workspaces SDK 16
Version 2.0 Released For Open Skype Alternative Jitsi 112
Open Source Software Seeping Into the .NET Developer World 146
KDE Launches Monthly Updates For Version 4.10 30
Chinese IT Ministry Looks Askance At Google's Control of Android 118
0install Reaches 2.0 61
Gamer Rewrites Valve's Steam Installer For Debian 158
Google Publishes Zopfli, an Open-Source Compression Library 124
Ubuntu Touch Beats Firefox OS For 'Best of MWC' From CNET 152
FOSS Communities Key To Managing Patent Risk 29
Open Source Emoji Project Wants Money For Icons 156
Python Trademark Filer Ignorant of Python? 261
Tizen 2.0 Magnolia SDK and Source Code Released 37
Lots of Changes for Intel Graphics Coming in Linux 3.9 102
Ask Slashdot: What Does the FOSS Community Currently Need? 356
Hardware Hacker Proposes Patent and Education Reform To Obama 134
NetBSD To Support Kernel Development In Lua Scripting 311
Collaborative LaTeX Editor With Preview In Your Web Browser 99
For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 176
Oracle Open Sourcing JavaFX, Including iOS and Android Ports 105
Opera Picks Up Webkit Engine 314
DIY Web-Controlled Robot That Takes 1 Hour To Build 56
Which Cloud System Is the Most Open? 70
OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office 361
SCALE 11 is Coming to Los Angeles Feb. 22-24 (Video) 25
GNU Hurd To Develop SATA, USB, Audio Support 274
How Red Hat Hires 113
Ask Slashdot: Can Closed Source Software Transition To the GPL Successfully? 99
KDE 4.10 Released, the Fastest KDE Ever 184
Discourse: Next-Generation Discussion/Web Forum Software 141
Tim O'Reilly Steps In To Debate Open Government and Linux 45
A Conversation with the President of the Open Source Initiative (Video) 22
OUYA Android Game Console Available In June 196
Life After MS-DOS: FreeDOS Keeps On Kicking 255
AMD Publishes Open-Source Radeon HD 8000 Series Driver 117
Piriform Asks BleachBit To Remove Winapp2.ini Importer 305
Can Proprietary Language Teams Succeed By Going Open Source? 136
Rackspace Flips, Won't Support Third-Party OpenStack Distros 12
Microsoft Embraces Git For Development Tools 227
DARPA Open Source Security Helped FreeBSD, Junos, Mac OS X, iOS 22
Pushing Back Against Licensing and the Permission Culture 320
XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More 146
How Open Source Could Benefit Academic Research 84
Ask Slashdot: Open Source Remote Application Access? 113
After A Year, Emacswiki Alternative Shutting Down 127
Why a Linux User Is Using Windows 3.1 415
Ask Slashdot: Best Free and Open Source Apps For Android? 134
"Adults Only" OpenArena Now Playable On Raspberry Pi 65
Alan Cox Exits Intel, Linux Development 214
Open Source Software Licenses Versus Business Models 95
Open Source ExFAT File System Reaches 1.0 Status 151
The Road To KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 2 89
LTSI Linux Kernel 3.4 Released 61
To Open Source Obama's Get-Out-the-Vote Code Or Not? 356
Firefox OS Smartphones Arriving For Developers 124
Fedora 19 Nixing MySQL in Favor of MariaDB 116
Decade Old KDE Bug Fixed 129
Swiss Historical Maps Allow Journey Through Time In Your Browser 32
German Parliamentary Committee Pushes for Open Source Friendly Policy 44
Open Source Gaming Handheld Project Wants Your Money 203
Open Compute 'Group Hug' Board Allows Swappable CPUs In Servers 82
Fedora 18 Released 118
Codec2 Project Asks FCC To Modernize Regulations 89
Norway Tax Auditors Want To Open Source Cash Registers To Combat Fraud 161
Who Controls Vert.x: Red Hat, VMware, Neither? 118
The Android Lag Fix That Really Wasn't 226
Microsoft's Future of the Living Room Starring SuperTuxKart 82
Samba: Less Important Because Windows Is Less Important 162
OpenStreetMap Hits One Million Registered Users 58
Hands On With Ubuntu For SmartPhones 127
Netflix Open-Sources "Janitor Monkey" AWS Cleanup Tool 34
Free Software NVIDIA Driver Now Supports 3D Acceleration With All GeForce GPUs 159
The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software 535
Open-Hardware Licensed Handheld Software-Defined Radio In the Works 50
Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? 230
An Ode To Skulpture 56
European Commission Support of FRAND Licenses Hurts Open Standards 137
Open webOS Adopts Apache Cordova for Hardware Access 17
Egyptian Government To Adopt Free Software On Larger Scale 57
Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug 1051
Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released 169
GNU C Library 2.17 Announced, Includes Support For 64-bit ARM 68
Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? 346
Open Source Foundations Coming of Age — What Next? 65
VLC For Windows 8 Reaches $65,000 Funding Goal On Kickstarter 210
Mozilla Brings Back Firefox 64-Bit For Windows Nightly Builds 209
After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out 259
GNU Hands Out Trisquel At a Microsoft Store 274
GarageGames Starts IndieGoGo Campaign To Port Torque 3D To Linux 71
KDE Software Compilation 4.10 RC1 Released 59
Qt 5.0 Released 161
Open-Source Hardware Hacker Ladyada Awarded Entrepreneur of the Year 56
Pentaho and Jaspersoft: Good Alternatives To Bigger-Name Software? 57
Blender 2.65 Released 93
Dell Announces Private Cloud Built On OpenStack 14
New Contiki OS Network Regression Test Framework 13
Linux 3.7 Released 151
Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ 136
VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App 252
How To Use a Linux Virtual Private Server 303
Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees? 371
For League of Legends Creator Riot Games, Big Data Is Serious Business 33
Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups 82
Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? 298
Linus Torvalds Delays Linux 3.7, Releases 3.7-rc8 Kernel Instead 86
Wiki Weapon Project Test-Fires a (Partly) 3D-Printed Rifle 289
Researcher Discloses New Batch of MySQL Vulnerabilities 76
Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source) 218
Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? 161
Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version 403
PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android 82
Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? 287
Netflix Gives Data Center Tools To Fail 75
DOOM 3 BFG Edition On Github, Timed For Oculus Rift 83
Ask Slashdot: Troubling Trend For Open Source Company 451
A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers 338
Finding a Crowdsourced Cure For Brain Cancer 217
A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available 36
GNOME 3 To Support a "Classic" Mode, of Sorts 197
Popular Android ROM Accused of GPL Violation 197
Firefox 17 Launches With Click-to-Play Plugin Blocks 137
Mozilla Makes Prototype of Firefox OS Available 101
Gentoo Developers Fork udev 152
Google Engineers Open Source Book Scanner Design 69
CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked 143
Fully Open A13-OLinuXino Single-Board Linux Computer 111
Oracle Makes Red Hat Kernel Changes Available As Broken-Out Patches 104
Acer C7 Chromebooks Expand Chrome OS Market 67
BeOS Clone Haiku Releases R1 Alpha 4 117
Why You Can't Build Your Own Smartphone: Patents 179
Facebook's Corona: When Hadoop MapReduce Wasn't Enough 42
AMD Closes OSRC, Lays Off Several Linux Kernel Developers 94
Cloud Computing Needs To Embrace the Linux Model, Says Rackspace CTO 42
Gate One 1.1 Released: Run Vim In Your Browser 150
Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions 52
Facebook's Prism, Soon To Be Open Sourced, Gives Hadoop Delay Tolerance 17
Navigating the Vast Ocean of Open Source 23
UK Takes Huge Step Forward On Open Standards 67
KDE Plasma Active: the Mobile Interface That Works 70
Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 117
The Past, Present, and Future of OSS 150
Red Hat Devs Working On ARM64 OpenJDK Port 63
Does OpenStack Need a Linus Torvalds? 152
The Greatest Battle of the Personal Computing Revolution Lies Ahead 291
ARM Code for Raspberry Pi Goes Open Source (Video) 91
Can Nokia Save Itself? 317
NASA Achieves Data Goals For Mars Rover With Open Source Software 35
Ubuntu Isn't Becoming Less Open, Says Shuttleworth 98
FSF Opens Nominations For Free Software Awards 2012 56
Eben Moglen Explains Freedom and Free Software in Two Video Interviews 78
OpenOffice Is Now, Officially, Apache OpenOffice 266
The Growth of Google Summer of Code 20
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Paid For Open-Sourcing Your Work? 167
The FSF Adopts the Kickstarter Approach To Fund-raising 35
Freeside Internet Services: Doing Well With Purely Free Software (Video) 53
Bruce Perens To Answer Your Questions 78
KDE Plasma Active 3 Improves Performance, Brings New Apps 70
Ubuntu Asks Users To Pay What They Want 280
Soon to Be Released CKEditor 4 Features New Skin And Inline Editing 69
Mesa 9.0 Released With Open Source OpenGL 3.1 Drivers 79
First Community Release of Diaspora 111
Samsung Galaxy Note II Source Code Released 32
Open Source Raspberry Pi WebIDE Alpha Released 26
Linux 3.7 Kernel To Support Multiple ARM Platforms 82
Ask Slashdot: Open Communications Set-Up For Small Office? 224
Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon 109
Blender Debuts Fourth Open Source Movie: Tears of Steel 126
HP Releases Open webOS 1.0 51
FFmpeg 1.0 MultiMedia Library Released 82
Prime Minister to French Government: Favor FOSS Wherever Possible 112
Adobe Releases New Openly Licensed Coding Font 136
Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software 151
GPL Kerfuffle Takes Xbian For Raspberry Pi Offline 154

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