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Submission + - NeoOffice Accepting Feature-Specific Donations

Submitted by Eon on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @12:53PM

Eon writes: The NeoOffice project recently announced that it will be accepting donations towards specific features. For those who aren't familiar with it, NeoOffice is the port of OpenOffice.org to Mac OS X that aims to be more Mac-like and does not require X11 (unlike the official OS X version of OOo). The open source project has a limited number of developers, so the New Features Program will allow users to do more than request features only to see their requests be denied due to lack of resources. Each candidate new feature has an estimated cost, and if that dollar amount is met in donations by 14 June, 2007 then work will begin on the feature immediately. If the amount is not met, all donations towards it will be refunded, so the program is completely risk-free to those who donate. They are currently accepting donations towards support for the native OS X spellchecker, and the native OS X address book. There is also a forum where anyone can propose a new feature to add to the list. Is this the future of donations to open source projects? Have other projects tried similar programs? (Coral Cache links to 1, 2, and 3 above).

Feed Hitachi gets its one terabyte Deskstar 7K1000 drives out the door (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @12:53PM

Filed under: Storage

We already crunched the numbers: 1TB is a lot. And if you've got $399 to blow, it can be all yours, with Hitachi saying Deskstar 7K1000 shipments have reached "critical mass" this month, after starting out scarce in March. We're guessing if you need one terabyte of data, in a 3.5-inch enclosure, spinning at 7,200 RPM and hooked up to your computer / RAID / iPod, you know who you are, so we won't spend any more time extolling the 7K1000's virtues -- quit your drooling and buy, buy, buy!

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Submission + - Canada Joins U.S. Piracy Complaint Against China

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @12:40PM

An anonymous reader writes: Canada has become the first country to join the U.S. in its piracy complaint against China with the World Trade Organization. Canadian officials claim that the move is based on concern from Canadian companies, but given the fact that those same companies barely export any entertainment products to China, this is clearly a case of Canada following orders from Washington.

Feed Photos: Stellar views from the Hubble at 17 (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @12:32PM

NASA and ESA celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's anniversary with colliding stars and supernovas.

Submission + - Petition Verizon to unstifle voip competition

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on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @12:21PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "http://www1.freetocompete.com/index.php As many of you may have heard, there's been a lot of press and buzz surrounding Verizon's litigation against one of our clients here in Boston, Vonage. Verizon has pursued litigation against Vonage in an effort to achieve in court what it cannot achieve in the marketplace. This case not only threatens Vonage, but potentially the entire competitive VOIP industry that is offering consumers an alternate choice for phone service. It's the classic David and Goliath story where big corporate America is trying to snuff out the little guy. Vonage has decided to not remain silent anymore about the larger implications of this case. Vonage's CMO, Jamie Haenggi, is launching a viral effort to get the truth out and I've attached a note from her below. Check out http://freetocompete.com/ for the full story. If you feel strongly about it, sign the petition and feel free to pass on. Thank you!"

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