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Submission + - "GNU Bucks" for finding non-free software (gnu.org)

Submitted by PeterBrett on Friday October 02, 2009 @09:04AM

PeterBrett writes: From the beginning of October, the FSF have begun awarding "GNU Bucks" (in the amount of pi and signed by RMS) to people who discover non-free software lurking in one of the "free system distributions" that they endorse. If you find components (code, documentation, fonts or even music or other content) in a distribution that don't meet the FSF's guidelines for free distributions, you can claim your prize. Unfortunately, since all of the endorsed distributions seem to be bit-players alongside the likes of Ubuntu, OpenSuSE and Fedora, I can't help but wonder if this attempt to cash in on the cult popularity of Knuth cheques is doomed to failure.

Submission + - New partnership between NASA and Google

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PeterBrett

on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @05:06AM

PeterBrett writes: "NASA's Ames Research Centre and Google are teaming up:
NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces.
This follows on from a memorandum of understanding agreed upon by them last year."

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