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| 2004 In Preview |
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By alex, Section Diaries
Posted on Sun Jan 4th, 2004 at 01:11:02 GMT |
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Well, it lays before us like a kind of year in the future or something. To get the diaries kicked off for the year ahead - since no-one has posted anything since November - here are my predictions and hopes for the next twelve months.
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| md5rcs |
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By brian, Section Diaries
Posted on Sun Dec 14th, 2003 at 19:06:15 GMT |
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I've written a program for creating and verifying checksums of cvs repositories, which may be useful to other people: md5rcs - a program for computing checksums of RCS revisions
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| Choose Your Own Copyright |
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By S11 or sirian, Section Diaries
Posted on Tue Oct 14th, 2003 at 16:52:16 GMT |
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What if you respect the principle of copyright, but don't respect the current copyright law? Make up your own.
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| Refuse to devide users! |
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By wolfgangj, Section Diaries
Posted on Sat Oct 4th, 2003 at 20:06:26 GMT |
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This article is actually a collection of questions about the origin of the GNU desktop, GNOME. Most likely there is something I just don't know about it (because it has not been explained clearly enough, since I don't consider myself to be ignorant). So please enlighten me if you can.
RMS did not want to spend most of the time of his life building walls to devide people. Thus he started the GNU project instead of joining the proprietary world. A wonderful decision. But I think the goal of the GNU community should not only be to make it theoretically possible for people to help each other; it also needs to be practical. So while the freedom that Free Software always gives you - of course - is the most important aspect and a conditio sine qua non, it is not the only aspect we should care about. If I am using different software than my neighbour, then I cannot help him very effectively.
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| We used it like Free Software |
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By wolfgangj, Section Diaries
Posted on Fri Oct 3rd, 2003 at 11:40:20 GMT |
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There was a time before I knew about GNU, Free Software and GNU/Linux. Back when me and my friends more-or-less happiely used and programmed on DOS, something interesting happened. Microsoft distributed an interpreter for a dialect of the BASIC programming language with their operating system, and they included two games as example programs.
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