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Windows Phone 7 and Xbox ban GPL software

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نشره الأمجد توفيق اصطيف في الثلاثاء, 01/03/2011 - 10:32ص

Recently word started
getting around that the terms for getting apps
on Windows Phone 7, and indie games on the Xbox, have changed. Now,
programs submitted to Microsoft cannot have any code licensed under a
copyleft license. Even if a single file is licensed under a weaker
copyleft license like the LGPL, Microsoft will apparently reject it.

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/windows-phone-gpl-ban


SilverStripe CMS the first ever open source web app to become Microsoft Certified

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نشره BEN ADAM في الأربعاء, 17/11/2010 - 11:17ص
"We're excited to report that SilverStripe CMS has become Microsoft certified today. This is notable because Microsoft has certified a very small number of web applications, and we are the first ever open source web-application to attain certification.


Meet the Firefox guru: Mitchell Baker, Tomorrow 1:00pm

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نشره tGDA في الأربعاء, 27/10/2010 - 4:41م

Time: Oct 28, 1:00 p.m.

Speakers:
- Mitchell Baker:The Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairperson and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker
- John Philips: A developer living in San Francisco and Beijing while growing Fabricatorz.com and "new" media projects. His notable involvements include Open Source and Free Culture movements, Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library, building commu...nity for Creative Commons, and now Status.Net. http://rejon.org/bio/


Linux Kernel Exploit Gives Hackers a Back Door

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نشره BlackSigma في الأربعاء, 22/09/2010 - 5:57م

Linux is well-known for its security advantages over many other operating systems, but that doesn't mean it's immune to problems.


You wouldn’t drink 9-year-old milk, so why use a 9-year-old browser?

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نشره Rys في الخميس, 13/05/2010 - 12:02م

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May 12, 2010 12:52 am AEST — By Long Zheng

To the few remaining Internet Explorer 6 users on this site, this is dedicated to you.

Microsoft Australia has recently launched a new online campaign aimed at prompting Internet Explorer 6 users to upgrade to IE8 with an interesting choice of analogy, milk.


Symbian announces Symbian^3 and immediately gives it away

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نشره BEN ADAM في الاثنين, 15/02/2010 - 3:12م
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA: London and San Francisco, 15 February 2010 – The Symbian Foundation today unveiled the Symbian^3 (S^3) platform, the first entirely open source release following the platform’s transition to an open source license on 4 February, 2010, which was the largest of its kind in history.
Read more about the features of Symbian^3 on [

Mozilla تطلق Firefox 3.6

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نشره BEN ADAM في الخميس, 21/01/2010 - 3:34م

أطلقت Mozilla اليوم النسخة 3.6 النهائية من متصفحها Firefox. يمكنكم مشاهدة ما تحمله النسخة الجديدة من ميزات من هنا.
يمكنكم تحميل النسخة من هنا (لنظام Windows).


Google Chrome OS: The User Interface

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نشره agent47 في الجمعة, 20/11/2009 - 2:09م

Google has just revealed its most ambitious undertaking to date, Chrome OS, a new operating system which intends to push the concept in a new direction by moving everything to the cloud. While this game-changing approach is very exciting and raises a lot of questions about the future of operating systems, the web and convergence of the two, the fact is that the first thing most people wanted to know is what it looks like and how has Google tackled the challenge of just having a browser and no other native app.