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For many years, we've highlighted how copyright maximalists have abused the international trade process to expand copyright monopolies around the globe. If you're interested in the history there, I highly recommend the book Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?, which details much of the history.

Now anyone is entitled to their own opinion and views of the world, but it is alarming to see that the very people who are in charge of formulating the rules that will shape our use of the digital environment for years to come are basing their ideas on a rather simplistic model of the Internet, that looks at the Internet as if it was yet another push medium in the the line of newspapers, radio, CDs or television.

Want a good-paying Linux job, but don't have the skills? The Linux Foundation is setting up a new program of online classes for you.

Fotoxx is a free and open source photo editing application. Here's how you can install Fotoxx 14.03.2 in Linux Mint 16.

This week's round-up includes the OpenStack enterprise readiness debate, Shuttleworth's decision to stick with MySQL and more.

Last week we talked about Broadcom finally open-sourcing their VideoCore IV 3D Graphics Stack and it is indeed the real McCoy, but the $10,000 Quake III bounty has yet to be claimed for getting it to work on the Raspberry Pi.

Roku announced a new streaming media stick that’s compatible with standard HDMI ports, in hopes of slowing the growing momentum of Google’s Chromecast.

The Calligra team announces the release of version 2.8 of the Calligra Suite, Calligra Active and the Calligra Office Engine.

"GoDaddy is known for hosting millions of Websites, using widely adopted open-source technologies like WordPress," Mark Collier, chief operating officer of the OpenStack Foundation, told eWEEK. "So the embrace of OpenStack is an awesome sign for the project, and we expect their massive scale and contributions to benefit the whole community."

Mesa 10.1 was released this morning as the latest three-month update to this 3D library and graphics driver stack used throughout the Linux desktop ecosystem. With Mesa 10.1 there are tons of improvements, while one of the big highlights is OpenGL 3.3 support for the open-source Radeon and Nouveau drivers.

Add version 1.8 of MATE to your Linux Mint 16 computer.

Unvanquished has released like clockwork their 25th alpha release, this time ripping out their old renderer completely.

Embedian launched its first SMARC form-factor computer-on-module, running Linux or Android on a 1GHz TI AM335x SoC, and supported by a SMARC carrier board.

Here is the latest instalment of Steam's Hardware Survey, as usual we do our monthly thing and compare it and talk about it and make sure you know not to use it as a hard figure.

Add Fotoxx 14.03.2 to your Ubuntu system. Fotoxx is a free and open source photo editing application. Here's how you can install Fotoxx 14.03.2 in Ubuntu 13.10.

Salix OS is a Slackware-based Linux distribution that is simple, fast, easy to use and compatible with Slackware Linux. Optimised for desktop use, Salix OS features one application per task, custom package repositories, advanced package management with dependency support, localised system administration tools and innovative artwork.

Robert Carr at Canonical has ported Google's Chromium web-browser to Mir. The "Mir-Ozone" component allows Chromium to run natively on Mir, which in turn is based on Wayland code.

Thanks to recent work on systemd's logind, it's now possible to install the X.Org Server binary without suid root rights while having everything work correctly, assuming you are using KMS drivers.

Intel purchased smartwatch maker Basis earlier this week for more than $100 million, according to several reports. News of the new acquisition led to some interesting speculation on Intel's possible role in the future of wearable devices.

PostgreSQL has picked up a new feature of logical decoding.