FSM Newsletter 26th of March 2007
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Hello everybody, and welcome once again to the fortnightly newslette=
r of Free Software Magazine: keeping you well informed about the realm of f=
ree software! Happy reading!
General announcements
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Latest content
GNU/Linux on the desktop: a modest business proposal=97=
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Why GPLv3 says additional permissions are removable=97C=
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A month with KDE=97Jonathan Roberts bravely switched fr=
om GNOME to KDE for an experimental month. Here's what he thought about it.=
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MINIX: what is it, and why is it still relevant? =97Ala=
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Interview with Eric Heikkinen of Pligg=97Tony Mobily re=
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Will Microsoft buy Novell?=97Eddie Macnaghten shares hi=
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Latest content continued
My quest to stop dual-booting=97Chris Mostek shares his=
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Fun with Ubuntu=97top ten next names, part 2=97Jabari Z=
akiya finishes off his top ten... and yes, it's just as funny as last week.=
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The lazy user's guide to OpenOffice.org Writer=97Daniel=
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How GPLv3 addresses the EUCD and DMCA=97Ciaran O'Riorda=
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Latest book reviews released
Integrating and Extending BIRT by Jason Weathersby, Don Fren=
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Design Concepts with Code: An Approach for Developers by Sta=
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Book competition announcement for this fortnight
This week we are giving away a copy of=09aremagazine.com/articles/book_review_birt_a_field_guide_to_reporting" targe=
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Integrating and Extending BIRT by Jason Weathersby, Don French, et al.<=
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Winner of the book competition from last fortnight
To be announced.
Poll Results=97How do you feel about the idea of governments mandating =
the use of free software in their countries?
This topic stimulated quite a lot of discussion and debate about freedom=
, and government, and power, and software... In the end the most popular op=
inion in this poll was "I think governments should be only be able to manda=
te use of free software in their own departments", which received 45% of th=
e vote. This was quite closely followed by "I support any government mandat=
ing the use of free software" with 33% of the vote, and then "I don't think=
governments should be allowed to dictate software use in their nation in a=
ny way" with 18% of the vote. And 4% had a different opinion. Read more=20
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