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Space Quest Creators reunite to create new SpaceVenture-> 0

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on Wednesday May 09, @11:52AM

E1ven writes "Space Quest Co-creators Mark Crow and Scot Murphy have reunited to create a Space Adventure. According to their Kickstarter page they will be building the new game as a HTML5 game across platforms."
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A comparison of various Open Source licenses-> 0

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on Thursday March 22, @03:45PM

E1ven writes "I put together a quick Comparison of various open-source licenses for some friends of mine, and thought Slashdot might find it useful, or at the very least, be helpful in telling me how I got everything wrong, and what to fix ;)"
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AMD shifts focus from competing with Intel, to com-> 1

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on Monday November 28 2011, @10:18PM

E1ven writes ""We're at an inflection point," AMD Spoksman Mike Silvermantold Mobile Tech Today,
"We will all need to let go of the old 'AMD versus Intel' mind-set, because it won't be about that anymore."
This has begun speculation that x86's Days as a Consumer Microarchitecture are Numbered."
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RoboHash turns any string into a Robot-> 0

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on Wednesday August 31 2011, @11:56AM

E1ven writes "Robohash is a quick web service that makes it easy to provide unique, robot/alien/monster/whatever images for any text.
Put in any text, such as IP address, email, filename, userid, or whatever else you like, and get back a pretty image for your site.

With hundreds of millions of variations, Robohash is the among the leading robot-based hashing tools on the web."
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Google directly copied Java Source Code into Andro-> 0

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on Friday January 21 2011, @12:54PM

E1ven writes "In what is starting to look like a redux of the SCO case, it has now come out that Google lifted code directly from public (but not OSS) Sun sources, and added them to Android."
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Sony released new platform built on GNUstep-> 0

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on Wednesday November 24 2010, @07:26PM

E1ven writes "Sony has released a new open development platform for consumer devices, based on the GNUstep codebase. From their site-The foundation upon which this project is base comes from the GNUstep community, whose origin dates back to the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT Computer Inc (now Apple Computer Inc.). While Apple has continued to update their specification in the form of Cocoa and Mac OS X, the GNUstep branch of the tree has diverged considerably."
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VMware to buy SUSE-> 0

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on Friday September 17 2010, @03:51AM

E1ven writes "Vmware (a division of EMC) has announced their intent to buy the SUSE Linux division of Novell."
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Lonava: $5 to post, and your name-> 0

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on Thursday August 26 2010, @04:00PM

E1ven writes "Lonava.com is a new online new site is designed to encourage people to be civil online, by outlawing Anonymous Cowards-
All posts require a Real Name attached to them, and a one-time $5 account verification change helps ensure you are who you say you are."
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New Visual style for Ubuntu-> 0

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on Wednesday March 03 2010, @06:59PM

E1ven writes "Ubuntu has released a driven by the theme "Light". They've developed a comprehensive set of visual guidelines and treatments that reflect that style, and are updating key assets like the logo accordingly. The new theme takes effect in 10.04 LTS and will define our look and feel for several years."
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Objections to the OGG container format-> 0

Submitted by E1ven on Wednesday March 03 2010, @02:34PM

E1ven writes "The Ogg container format is being promoted by the Xiph Foundation for use with its Vorbis and Theora codecs. Unfortunately, a number of technical shortcomings in the format render it ill-suited to most, if not all, use cases. This article examines the most severe of these flaws."
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