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The OpenOffice.org Community announced a second beta release of OpenOffice.org 3 to the public early this morning.

Bill Gates claims open source (probably referring to the GPL) makes it "so that nobody can ever improve the software"

Good overview here. interesting bit on how TC undermines the GPL.

GPL v3 Forever! Oh wait? Money you say? OK!

This is the official homepage of KeePass, the free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

可用于多个系统的Word文档阅读器,可以把doc格式转换成纯文本来读。

For years, the center of open-source software, at least from a commercial perspective, was with companies such as Red Hat, Novell, MySQL, and a number of smaller players. Those companies continued grinding away at their collaborative programming projects

"The entire AdTI study is a commercial funded by Microsoft, whose sole aim is to counter the growing adoption of GPL'd software. The report contains nothing constructive or useful. It is a sham."

Sun's choice to open-source Java might cause Microsoft a lot of trouble when trying to threaten patent-infringement lawsuits over .NET technologies. Why? Linux can directly incorporate GPL'd Java, and Sun might be the actual holder for the alleged IP.

The author here is no doubt correct in criticising some points in Bill Hilf's remarks. But reading this article gives me an impression that he's fuming through his ears. That makes me suspect that this may not be a rational view as it may have been writte

Seems Microsoft wants to join in with the accessibility work at Gnome that Sun originally led, using Novell as a proxy so that nasty GPL code doesn't sully them. Good to have them along, and way overdue.

There are many videos on the web showing the effects of Beryl or Compiz compared to MS Windows Vista Aero Effects.