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  • Why women don't FLOSS
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  • BitTorrent: taking down DMCA takedown notices
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Fun & Humor

  • Don't get me started about (South) Africans
  • Creative come on!
  • Linux funny and otherwise edifying factoids
  • Desesperatly trying to workaround the GPL
  • Google to users: you're not the boss of me now
  • Feedburner to Google: I'm crashing because of you
  • Microsoft OOXML wasn’t approved by ISO

Open source references

  • 10 organizations of interest to FOSS developers
  • Call for Equitable Open Source
  • Equitable Open Source
  • GNU GPL v3 for dummies
  • GNU GPL v3 for dummies: mixing GPL and non-GPL code
  • Picking an open source licence
  • Venture Capitalists  investing in open source companies
  • 10 business models leveraging open source
  • Open source 101

Software patents

  • A company turns Microsoft-Novell case into an open source business model
  • Don’t wanna pay for Linux, beware of soft. patents

FOSS business strategies

  • An alternative to Dual-Licensing
  • Way to go Jonathan
  • Dual-licensing: revoking the GNU GPL
  • Dual-licensing is unfair and community debilitating
  • MySQL so busy becoming PostgreSQL it forgets
  • SUN, MySQL needs you to be bold, go for the cloud!
  • 10 business models leveraging open source
  • Open source is slow and unsafe
  • Company closing source: "open souce is a wash"
  • VCs investing in open source companies

Companies fighting against the GNU GPL

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  • The butterfly effect takes OOXML by storm
  • RIAA to help enforcing the GPL
  • Goggle = Microsoft, same tactics, different monopoly
  • GNU Affero: Microsoft jubilates, Google cries
  • GPL workarounds
  • Microsoft forbid using GPLv3 on Codeplex
  • Google to users: you're not the boss of me now!
  • Affero: Google answers Milking The GNU

Liberty Bell

  • Free Software Credibility Index
  • Google as a shield from RIAA lawsuits
  • Open source police force
  • Freedom of Speech: the long tail of Google
  • 17,000 bloggers cannot be wrong

Milking open source

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  • Don't get me started about (South) Africans
  • Dual-licensing is unfair and debilitating
  • MySQL so busy becoming PostgreSQL it forgets
  • One million dollars for a T-shirt
  • MySQL stripped naked by Oracle
  • A company turns Microsoft-Novell into FOSS model
  • Company closing its source: “open source is a wash”

Miscellaneous

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  • Vote on your favorite open source project
  • Why Hackers FLOSS
  • FreeBSD the most distributed Linux in the World
  • The Farmer and The Nomad
  • On building Encyclopediae
  • The GNU GPL is contagious. So what?
  • Smoking the Cloud: the technology of cloud computing
  • 1 reader every 90s in just 90 days (Part I)
  • 1 reader every 90s in just 90 days (Part II)
  • Building a Blog in 30 days
  • Building a Blog in 60 days
  • Sony BMG infringes on Digital Rights, gets busted
  • How to build a start-up in one day at no cost


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