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This is what Stallman has been warning us about all these years - and most of us, including myself, never really took him seriously. However, as the world changes, the importance of the ability to check what the code in your devices is doing - by someone else in case you lack the skills - becomes increasingly apparent. If we lose the ability to check what our own computers are doing, we're boned.
That's the very core of the Free Software Foundation's and Stallman's beliefs: that proprietary software takes control away from the user, which can lead to disastrous consequences, especially now that we rely on computers for virtually everything we do. The fact that Stallman foresaw this almost three decades ago is remarkable, and vindicates his activism. It justifies 30 years of Free Software Foundation.
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WinMerge 3 is a port of WinMerge (http://winmerge.org) to use cross-platform
with Qt (http://qt.nokia.com/) framework. This project is still in very early
stages.
WinMerge 3 is LGPL licensed open source software. GPL license is included in
file COPYING and LGPL license is in file COPYING.LESSER. More information about
these licenses is available at http://www.gnu.org
Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries was open sourced under the GPL in 2009. This includes the game source code, graphics, and audio, except the music.
TextRoom and all other similar editors share one goal: to get you writing right away by providing distraction free environment to your liking, as well as familiar set of keyboard shortcuts to control its behavior. If you don't feel comfortable already with your editor of choice, you may find it useful.
The idea is simple: Instead of a centralized photo sharing site that requires users to register under (usually) fairly one-sided privacy and copyright policies, Mediagoblin would allow anyone to put up an instance and then share media with friends — whether or not they happen to use the same instance of Mediagoblin. Right now, if I post my pictures to Facebook or Flickr with any kind of privacy restriction, then anyone I want to share with has to be registered with that service in particular. If successful, Mediagoblin would allow users on different servers to share media with one another and avoid having to sign up for new services.
This also means users can, in theory, run their own instance of Mediagoblin — so there's no dependence on a third party and no reason why you have to grant access to your media to a third party.
If this sounds at all familiar, it's similar to the model that's being used by StatusNet and its Twitter-like service, Identi.ca. Users can join Identi.ca with the majority of users, or they can run their own instance of StatusNet — or have StatusNet host a separate instance for their company, etc. — and still chat with their friends on Identi.ca.
I feared that the announcement or the source code included confidential information about our business or an incompatible license. I was convinced that I missed something very big and important and dreaded the consequences for my team and my job.
My email synchronized before the Q train entered Manhattan. The content was nothing like I expected.
"Team,
The Engineering team just open sourced an awesome tool called Heroku-Bartender. It was mentioned on Hacker News with a link to its Github repository. It made it into the top posts. I want everyone to check it out and read through the comments. Open source is a great way for us to establish engineering credibility while contributing to the community-at-large.
-Thank you and congratulations to Engineering."
Texmaker is a free, modern and cross-platform LaTeX editor for linux, macosx and windows systems that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application.
Texmaker includes unicode support, spell checking, auto-completion, code folding and a built-in pdf viewer with synctex support and continuous view mode.
Texmaker is easy to use and to configure.
Texmaker is released under the GPL license .
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in python. It is based on the cross platform Qt gui toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control. It is designed to be usable as everdays' quick and dirty editor as well
Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day.
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.)
Kaboodle® is a free, open-source Internet app which provides:
Complete visualization of your LAN, updated in near-real time.
A point-and-click interface to take remote-control of what it finds.
A "personal VPN" capability to securely connect Kaboodle-en
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