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How Internet Explorer supported free software
Internet Explorer, the nightmare of all web developers and many Internet users, the vendor lock-in application of the worst kind, has significantly contributed to the advancement of free software. How is it possible that such a product could help us? When Internet Explorer appeared all the (at the time) modern and popular web browsers were […]
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GCompris crowd funding campaign
GCompris is a great software collection and our children have been enjoying it a lot during the years. The project runs a crowd funding campaign now to make an improved graphics. I like the opportunity to support such a great project.
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10 years of OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap celebrated its 10th birthday last month. It’s a great project with great achievements, like Wikimedia projects. It’s another success of user collaboration and freedom.
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Debian GNU/Linux on Android
Android tablets are useful portable devices. Unfortunately Android makes them less useful than they could be. There are several problems with Android, one of them being lack of applications. While there are free Android applications for many common tasks, they are typically not suitable for serious work and many applications are completely missing, most notably […]
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Liberating your Android device
Some interesting starting points: https://lwn.net/Articles/602521/ https://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/liberate.en.html
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Installing an alternative ROM on Google Nexus 10
Enough is enough. I don’t like how the stock Android installation treats its users and I finally decided to replace it on my Google Nexus 10 with something else. The reasonable choices were CyanogenMod, AOKP and OmniROM. I decided to install AOKP. Installation instructions looked like installing an alternative ROM on Nexus is a completely […]
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Really afraid of Mozilla
A week after the International Day Against DRM, Mozilla has announced that it accepts the W3C DRM proposal and will actively support DRM on the Web. So we’ve lost another battle against DRM. All major Web browsers now officially accept DRM on the Web. I find the following Mozilla explanation scary: “Every other major browser […]
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Afraid of Mozilla
So Brendan Eich has resigned and has left Mozilla. It was apparently the only reasonable option he had which is a very bad news. (If you don’t know what it is about, look for Brendan Eich Mozilla CEO in your favorite search engine.) The hatred and bigotry demonstrated in this case is scaring. AFAIK Brendan […]
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CyanogenMod user
Enough is enough. I got sufficiently annoyed by Samsung Android to install an unofficial port of CyanogenMod (no better alternative) on my phone. What are the first impressions? The system installed without problems and has been running reasonably well. The user restrictions are gone: I got rid of many useless proprietary applications wasting the very […]
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Absurdity of patents
I’ve been thinking about patents a bit recently. I thought about alien invasion, from a far world with a strict patent system. What would the aliens tell us? “We can see you have been using a lot of our patented inventions, from the wheel to the rocket science, without paying us licensing fees. These are […]