Open Source Stories for 2011

Open Source IDE GAMBAS Reaches 3.0 137
Open Source Increasingly Replaced By Open APIs 224
Ask Slashdot: How Best To Deal With a GPLv2 License Infringement? 240
Dell and Baidu Introduce a Smartphone With Forked Version of Android 146
Mozilla's 3 Big Bets To Keep the Web Open 88
Twitter To Open Source Android Security Tech 164
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source License For Guitar? 102
ASF Lays Out Its Plan For OpenOffice.org 129
Music Player Amarok 2.5 Released 152
New Qt Based Desktop Environment 241
Examining the Usability of Gnome, Unity and KDE 228
Munich's Move To Linux Exceeds Target 235
GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast 808
FCC Pays $100K To Open Source Apps Challenge Winner 15
How HP and Open Source Can Save WebOS 86
Tizen, webOS, & the Future of Mobile Open Source 94
Windows 8 Store Will Allow Open Source Apps 333
Linux Mint Diverting Banshee Revenue 178
Ask Slashdot: Open Vs. Closed-Source For a Start-Up 325
HP Making webOS Open Source 169
Tycho Deep Space: a DIY, Open Source, Manned Spacecraft 85
IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools 50
Download.com Bundling Adware With Free Software 228
OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes 133
Aleph One 1.0 Released 105
Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? 334
Latest Humble Bundle Comes With Uplink Source Code 96
Amazon Releases Kindle Source Code 153
CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S 218
Free Software Activists Take On Google Search 254
Does Open Source Software Cost Jobs? 530
Dutch Government Officially Trusts OpenVPN-NL 53
Small OSS Library Project Battles US Corporation 118
Doom 3 Source Released 187
Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Redistrict New York 102
2-Year Study Shows Mac Users Downloading More Open Source Software 203
Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts? 377
B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims With Prior Art 332
Ask Slashdot: Statistical Analysis Packages For Libraries? 146
Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release 283
Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community 158
Common Crawl Foundation Providing Data For Search Researchers 61
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Released 285
Lawyer Continues Android v. GPL Crusade 155
HP Delays WebOS Decision 77
Banshee, Mono May Be Dropped From Ubuntu Default 255
In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop 487
Strange Places To Find Open Source 118
Open Source Tool Scans For Duqu Drivers 64
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD 488
Ask Slashdot: When and How To Deal With GPL Violations? 151
Godfather of Xen On Why Virtualization Means Everything 150
Which OSS Clustered Filesystem Should I Use? 320
Open Hardware Journal 103
Schools In Portugal Moving To OSS 319
$25 PC Prototype Gets Award At ARM TechCon 238
Ask Slashdot: Image Recognition For Race Timing? 170
Stanford's Open Source Human Motion Software 15
Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering 207
Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source 526
Build the 2006 Prototype $25 PC 120
Linux 3.1 Released With Support for the OpenRISC CPU 165
How Open Source Hardware Is Kick-Starting Kickstarter 44
Android 4.0 Source Code Coming "Soon" 203
Open Source CPUs Coming To a Club Near You? 54
OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source 270
Android Source Code Gone For Good? 362
Microtouch: 8-bit Open Source Media Device 115
LibreOffice Going Online and Mobile 114
OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) 298
AMD Ports Open-Source Linux GPU Driver To Windows 107
Gate One 0.9 Released, Brings SSH To the Web 151
Microsoft Goes In For Hadoop 67
Cloud Driving Microsoft To Open Source? 83
Searching For Mark Pilgrim 89
Ask Slashdot: Spreading the Word About At-Risk Open Source Projects? 115
OpenStack Spun Out From Rackspace Control 33
Robotic Arm With Home-Brewed, Open Source Voice Control 33
Red Hat Acquiring Cloud Storage Company Gluster 34
Looking Back On a Year of LibreOffice 242
Sony Ericsson Helps Out FreeXperia Developers 50
BerliOS Software Repository Will Close At Year's End 62
Battle For Open Standards In Dutch Public Education 89
Teach Your Router New Tricks With DD-WRT 257
Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia? 314
Oracle May 'Fork Itself' With MySQL Moves 137
Crowdsourcing Speeds Evolution of 3D Printable Objects 35
The Looming Video Codec Fight 235
Could Open Source Investment Save HP? 126
Opportunities From the Twilight of Moore's Law 148
Oracle Removes Java Signatures, Breaking Webstart 198
NASA Announces Space Apps Challenge 42
Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config 22
Why You Shouldn't Panic About Closed Source MySQL Extensions 171
Arduino Goes ARM 144
RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' 433
Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins 226
The Letter That Started AMD's Open-Source Strategy 92
Celebrate Software Freedom Today 107
Nokia Announces Qt Open Governance Model 39
An $80 Open Source Chemical Analyzer 51
PostgreSQL 9.1 Released 148
The Covenant - a New Open Source Strategy 108
UK: Open Standards Must Be Restriction Free 90
Type Safety Coming To DB Queries 128
Linux Foundation, Linux.com Sites Down To Fix Security Breach 101
Ask Slashdot: Best Programs To Learn From? 329
The State of Open Source Software 76
UK Government Breaks Open Source Promises 145
'Cosmo' — a C#-Based Operating System 406
Linux Kernel Moves To Github 142
Only Idiots Don't Give Back To Free Software 326
US Gov't Lobbied EU To Approve Oracle-Sun Merger 169
A Talk With Syllable OS Lead Developer Kaj de Vos 121
CloudStack Goes Open Source 17
Automatic Spelling Corrections On Github 105
Announcing Opa: Making Web Programming Transparent 253
Open Source Simulator FlightGear Releases v2.4 70
Linux Support Fades For 3Dfx Voodoo, Rage 128, VIA 330
Linus' First Linux Post, 20 Years Ago Today 181
Inside Oregon State University's Open Source Lab 55
FSF Uses Android FUD To Push GPLv3 282
25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice 247
Does Android Violate the GPL? Not So Fast 186
Open Source For Lawyers? 67
Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.2 Specification 98
Autodesk + Instructables: For Makers? 77
Twitter To Open Source Streaming Data Analyzer 11
Measuring Openness In Open Source Projects 65
Doom 3 Source Code To Be Released This Year 210
Open Source Gesture Recognition For Kinect SDK 25
Xamarin's First Mono Release - Proof of Life! 95
Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community 314
Is Free Software Ready For E-publishing? 221
What Do I Do About My Ex-Employer Stealing My Free Code? 545
What's Needed For Freedom In the Cloud? 81
Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009 295
Microsoft Dilutes Open Source, Coins 'Open Surface' 191
KDE 4.7.0 Released 212
The Humble Indie Bundle 3 Released 158
Registration Opens For Software Freedom Day 2011 16
Attachmate Does the Right Thing For Mono 100
Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code 348
Visual Hash Turns Text Or Data Into Abstract Art 86
Open Radeon 3D Driver Runs At 60~70% of Proprietary Driver Speed 245
Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming 463
IBM Donates Symphony Code To Apache Software Foundation 131
The Best Unknown Open Source Projects 152
Open Source Software Hijacked To Push Malware 147
PuTTY 0.61 Released 184
Interview With the Editors of Libre Graphics Magazine 51
When Software Offends 467
Debian, SFLC Publish Patent Advice For Community Distros 63
Harmony Project Pushes Lawyers Off FOSS's Back 45
CERN Launches Open Hardware Initiative 29
The Uzebox: an Open Source Hardware Games Console 104
Dangerous Prototypes: Open Source Hardware Seeding 48
How Long Will Oracle Stick With Open Source? 80
World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified 315
Record-Seeking Bloodhound SSC Goes Partially Open Source 64
E-Voting Reform In an Out Year? 218
OKCon11 Opens In Berlin 27
Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here? 98
13-Year-Old Password Security Bug Fixed 130
The Ugly State of ARM Support On Linux 94
Court Case To Test GNU GPL 371
NanoNote Goes Wireless 83
History of Software Forks Favors LibreOffice 149
Linus' Other Gift to the World 177
GPL'd Driver and Linux Support For New H.264 Capture Card 119
Skype Is Working To Defeat the Reverse Engineering 169
The Future of OpenOffice.org 66
Oracle To Give OpenOffice.org To Apache Incubator 129
MuseScore Makes Open Goldberg Variations Available 1
Kororaa 14 Released; Think of it as Linux Mint for Fedora 3
Free Software Faces a Test With Qt 177
HTC To Unlock Smartphones' Bootloader 166
Major Release of Miro Aims to Compete With iTunes 201
Are Third-Party Android Vendors Violating the GPL? 132
The Architecture of Open Source Applications 85
Linux Desktop Summit Program Announced 121
MeeGo 1.2 Released 76
Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 205
10,000 Commits To an Open-source Project 101
Groklaw Torch Handed To Mark Webbink 47
Aldebaran Robotics To Open Source Nao Robot Control Software 26
Ubuntu Switches To OpenStack For Cloud 55
The Arduino Project Gets a Core Memory Accessory 46
Yahoo Beats Patent Troll That Beat Google 82
Nokia Announces Qt 5 Plans 129
Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters 118
Google's Honeycomb Source Code Release Is On Ice 136
Android Honeycomb Will Not Be Open Sourced 295
Consumer Device With Open CPU Out of Beta Soon 99
Apple Delays Release of LGPL WebKit Code 209
AMD To Support Coreboot On All Upcoming Processors 134
2 RMS Books Hit Version 2.0 163
Crowdsourcing Radiation Monitoring In Japan 66
Micro-SD Card Slot Abused As VGA-Port 77
KDE 4.6.3 Released 105
Oracle Plans To Hand Hudson To Eclipse 68
Mickos Says MySQL Code Better Than Ever Under Oracle 117
Help Build the World's First Community-Funded CPU ASIC 140
Oracle, Google Move To Streamline Java Suit 49
If You're Going To Kill It, Open Source It 245
Google Pumps $6 Million Into Summer of Code 2011 102
Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project 250
Don't Expect an OpenOffice/LibreOffice Merger 192
Open Source Programming Tools On the Rise 113
What Monty Python Teaches Us About Computing 102
Can Open Source Hardware Feed the World? 231
GPL Violations By D-Link and Boxee 251
OpenOffice.org To Be Given Back To the Community 219
Maqetta: Open Source HTML5 Editor From IBM 121
Next-Gen Low-Latency Open Codec Beats HE-AAC 166
Blender 2.57 Released — and It's Easy To Use! 221
VMware Releases Open Source Cloud Foundry 91
KDE's New Projects Take On Portable Devices 110
Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project 623
Third Humble Bundle Arrives, 'Frozenbyte' Edition 195
Bringing Open Source To Biomedicine 60
Photosynth Gets a Little Competition 62
Better Open Source Communities Through Data 35
Nokia Confirms Symbian Is No Longer Open Source 246
GNOME 3 Released 353
Bashing MS 'Like Kicking a Puppy,' Says Jim Zemlin 648
The Biggest Legal Danger For Open Source? 161
Yahoo Seeks Open Source Community Support 73
Xen 4.1 Hypervisor Released 105
Google Delays General Release of Honeycomb Source 262
Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 1075
Google Engineer Releases Open Source Bitcoin Client 280
Google Names Winners For Summer of Code 2011 84
Open-Source Bach; Copyright-Free Goldbergs 106
Apple Disputes Browser Speed Findings, Says Mobile Safari's the True Contender 155
Who's Behind the Google-Linux License Ruckus? 241
GNU Free Call Announced, SIP-based VoIP 145
Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream' 792
Open Source Licensing and the App Store Model 251
The Full Story Behind the Canonical vs. GNOME Drama 247
NASA To Host Open Source Summit 49
Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness 349
Has GNOME Rejected Canonical Help? Shuttleworth Responds 181
Android Devices Are Hives of License Violations 299
Gameduino Project Aims To Game-ify the Arduino 83
GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons 797
AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot 71
Red Hat Stops Shipping Kernel Changes as Patches 184
Open Source Guy Takes the Hardest Job At Microsoft 325
What Would You Do With Open.org? 239

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