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"the consultants have been paid over £2million for two years of seemingly unproductive work.... For now, the first step is to force these consultants who have been hired into the hollow shell that is our government policymaking framework to answer the case for open source development, rather than simply getting away with pretending that it does not even exist."

At last media calls "bullshit" on Bill Gates the good guy meme: "What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft..imposes on its customers."

The Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests. Our purpose is to support and develop free, open protocols and software to serve the public, developer an

"Microsoft .. expects respect for its so-called "intellectual property"--a propaganda term designed to confuse patent law with copyright and other unrelated laws .. We will ensure .. that Microsoft respects our copyrights and complies with our [GPLv3] lic

Nominations are open to all between now and the Friday 17 August 2007

Cream shapes Vim into an interface you probably already know (sometimes called Common User Access [ext.link] ). Whether you are writing emails or developing large software applications, Cream saves you time and gets you up and running quickly.

Referencer is a Gnome application to organise documents or references, and ultimately generate a ibTeX bibliography file. Referencer includes a number of features to make this process easier: Automatic metadata retrieval, Import from BibTeX, Reference M

You can find a free replacement for most of the proprietary software out there. Here’s a list of some proprietary software, and their Free Software equivalents :

Bibus is a bibliographic and reference management software. As with other such tools, Bibus allows one to search, edit, and sort bibliographic records. In addition, Bibus contains features that makes it unique among open source and even commercial bibliog

Some programs, but above all, great advice from my favourite Slashdot person, KFG.