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Journal: Windows 7 to hit consumers with known security problem 0

Journal by hugoroy on Monday October 19 2009, @09:39AM

Microsoft is about to launch its new operating system, Windows 7, on Thursday. While the company has done a lot to promote its new product with advertisement, in order to forget the very relative success of Windows Vista, it seems that security was not as much as a priority...

Ten Reasons Why You Should Boycott Skype-> 0

Submitted by Tovok7 on Saturday March 14 2009, @02:23PM

Tovok7 writes "Despite its wide usage and popularity, there has always been a lot of criticism about eBay's unprofitable Skype. Now all the arguments against using Skype were summarized and several alternatives proposed. Should you ever need to explain your friends why you are not going to use Skype, this article might come in handy: "If you want to understand what Skype actually is, it might help to picture an almighty telephone and mail company. This company can not only spy on your private conversations and has total control over them, but it also forces you to use it. It owns the telephone lines and all mail transportation and does not let other companies use them. At the same time, you are bound to only use their telephone and mailboxes." Is the average user going to be impressed by these arguments and are there really good alternatives to Skype?"
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Ten Reasons Why You Should Boycott Skype->

by Tovok7 on Saturday March 14 2009, @01:52PM

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Georg Greve on the history of FSFE-> 1

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Stian Rodven Eide

on Wednesday March 11 2009, @05:45AM

Stian Rodven Eide writes "Georg Greve is the founder of the Free Software Foundation Europe and has served as its president since the beginning in 2001. Marking the eight birthday of the FSFE I asked him some questions on his own background and the history of the FSFE for a special birthday edition of the Fellowship interview series."
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Comment: Succeed in the field of technology? (Score 1) 325

by Tovok7 on Monday February 23 2009, @05:24PM (#26962807) Attached to: Microsoft Unveils "Elevate America"

The new online initiative, Elevate America, is set to equip close to 2 million people (over the next three years) with the skills needed to succeed in the field of technology.

So they are not trained in using Microsoft products?

FSFE launches Free PDF Readers campaign 0

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FSFE Fellow

on Monday February 02 2009, @03:25AM

FSFE Fellow writes "The Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe is proud to announce its latest initiative: pdfreaders.org, a site providing information about PDF with links to Free Software PDF readers for all major operating systems.

"Interoperability, competition and choice are primary benefits of Open Standards that translate into vendor-independence and better value for money for customers," says FSFE president Georg Greve. "Although many versions of PDF offer all these benefits for formatted text and documents, files in PDF formats typically come with information that users need to use a specific product. pdfreaders.org provides an alternative to highlight the strengths of PDF as an Open Standard.""

FSFE Fellowship interview with Enrico Zini 0

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julipan

on Tuesday January 20 2009, @08:15AM

julipan writes "Enrico Zini is a long time Fellow of the FSFE and a prominent Debian developer. He has been involved in many different projects relating to Free Software and is deeply concerned about social issues. I had a nice chat with Enrico and asked him about some of his favourite causes."

FSFE New Year's Resolution Fellowship campaign-> 0

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Graeme

on Monday January 05 2009, @08:31AM

Graeme writes "Free Software Foundation Europe is asking people what they can do in 2009 to improve things for themselves and others in the sphere of software freedoms. One of the best ways is to make joining the successful Fellowship programme your New Year's resolution! More reasons to join: supporting the Freedom Task Force, FSFE anti-software patent work, and political lobbying."
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New platform for funding open-source development-> 0

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jackflap

on Thursday October 25 2007, @04:00PM

jackflap writes "A new website that could turn into an exciting community-driven platform for open-source software development has sprung up recently. By bidding any amount they want on open-source projects, community members can use their wallets to vote and fund projects they would like to see realized.

From the website — Cofundos helps to realize bright ideas by providing a platform for their discussion and enrichment and by establishing a process for organizing the contributions and interests of different stakeholders in the ideas."
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Open-source innovation platform Cofundos.org-> 1

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Soeren Auer

on Sunday October 21 2007, @07:46PM

Soeren Auer writes "Cofundos.org is a novel platform for spurring innovation and development of open-source software. It is about revealing bright ideas regarding the development of open-source software and attracting a critical mass for their realization. The platform as well as further information can be found at:

http://www.cofundos.org/

The main idea of Cofundos.org is to share innovative (open-source) ideas, to refine them and to mobilize funding for their realization.
We would like to invite all Slashdot readers to register or login using OpenId and to post software ideas, requirements or even bid for the
realization of existing projects. Cofundus.org is entirely semantically interoperable (complete RDF dumps of all nonsensitive data, Atom and JSON exports) and truly open-knowledge."
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