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FSM Newsletter 13th of November 2006

By admin

Welcome to another of Free Software Magazine's fortnightly newsletters,
keeping you up to date with us, and all things free software... enjoy!
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*Making money on free art*=97Terry Hancock explores how free culture can
potentially allow artists to both create and make money. read
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*Apples and bananas*=97Eddy Macnaghten takes on some free software naysayer=
s
who have completely missed the point... read
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*Ethics, employment and free software*=97We all want to be ethical, but we
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*Flying high with FlightGear*=97Scared of heights? Alan Berg explores
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*Rabbits and Foxes*=97Pieter Hintjens explores the government-sanctioned
notion that more patents mean more innovation, and considers what that mean=
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for software development.read
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*Digital TV, Media Center and how to save a few bucks*=97Mitch Meyran
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  3. 2006-11-06 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Novell self destruction
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  7. 2006-11-08 Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1-at-gmail.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [Fwd: XenEnterprise 3.1 for Windows and Linux]
  8. 2006-11-13 einker <eminker-at-gmail.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Fwd: FSM newsletter: FSM Newsletter 13th of November 2006
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