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I would like to focus on the “love your neighbor” commandment and how does it apply to software; specifically, how does it apply to one’s choices of which software to use?... Free software (free as in free speech) fulfils this requirement

The Recording Industry Association of America found itself in an unusual position this week: opposing an anti-piracy bill that's gaining momentum in Congress.

The RIAA also warns that the need to hire an attorney to navigate the ITC's arcane legal process will "put justice out of reach for small business American victims of IP theft."

It used to be there were four tiers of work in the United States. The first tier was for the truly uneducated: the illiterate. The second tier was for people who could be counted on to read and write and perform basic math: the high school graduates. Then there were folks who could be counted on to learn a lot more and take up positions of greater complexity: the college graduates. Finally there was a spot in the job market every so often for an expert. — Newsflash: the second and third tier are going away. In it's place is a single tier: people who are literate and are able to control computers. And we're nowhere near ready for the changes coming. — Programming is the new High School Diploma.

Here is a series of exclusive interviews with Greg Kroah-Hartman.

$25 credit card size ARM Linux PC Raspberry Pi is getting lots of love from community. First, XBMC playing HD video was shown shown off at Scale 10x. Now a specific Linux distribution Raspbmc is being developed by Stm Labs which is specially optimized for Raspberry Pi. XBMC team is not involved with development of Raspbmc. However, they are pleased that new distributions are making it easy to deploy XBMC on Raspberry Pi. XBMC team will continue to work on improving the XBMC experience on rPi and other systems.

VeriSign, the company that manages a key internet database for routing traffic to websites and email addresses, exposed private information after being hacked on multiple occasions in 2010, the company quietly disclosed late last year.

The executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, Bradley Kuhn, has reacted to the flame war over comments regarding a replacement for the popular BusyBox program.

The problem is this: Megaupload was accused of violating copyright through its file-sharing technology. This permits users to upload their own content and permit other users into their space. If anything that one person uploads is of uncertain copyright status — it could be anything, really — sharing it would then seem to amount to a crime. —— Which raises the question: Is every site that makes file sharing possible in danger?

NTT Docomo announced a pair of 4.3-inch Android 2.3 smartphones whose styling, user interface, and content all have a Disney theme. Both have dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP4430 processors, but the & Disney Mobile on docomo F-08D& is clocked to 1.2GHz, offers HD resolution, and has a 13-megapixel camera, while the & Disney Mobile on docomo P-05D& offers 1GHz performance and a 960 x 540-pixel OLED screen....

RadiSys announced a ruggedized Type 6 COM Express module, featuring industrial temperature support and embedded-specific versions of Intel's & Sandy Bridge& Core i7 processors. The CEQM67HD offers up to 16GB of RAM, multiple video interfaces, four SATA ports, seven PCI Express x1 ports, and a PCI Express x16 interface, the company says....

It's been nearly two years since I got my first Asus convertible tablet/netbook, loaded it up with Linux and started kicking it around with my every day to classes. In general I have found it to be an extremely useful tool.

DreamLinux 5.0 is a truly "Dreamy" Linux distribution stacked full of all your favorite Linux applications. Check out DreamLinux 5.0 today!

This Monday GoL brings you parallel interviews with members of the core team for the free open-source game "Naev"

Disks are becoming cheaper and so it’s becoming common to have on our desk an external (usually USB) hard drive with a size of 1TB or more.

Here is a list with some beautiful themes for GO Launcher EX, Android's most popular home replacement app.

If you ever tried to work with Linux command line, ls command was surely one of the first commands you have executed. In fact, ls command is so frequently used, that its name is often considered as the best choice to name a Trojan Horse. Even though you use ls command on daily basis, its wast number of options always makes you to reach for ls's manual page. Doing so you learn something new every time you open ls's manual page . This guide will try to do the same. ls command belongs to a group of core utilities on your Linux system. GNU ls was written by Stallman and David MacKenzie based on the original AT&T code written in the 60s.

In the US we have SOPA, PIPA and ACTA and in the Netherlands we have judges like mr. P.H. Blok, mr. R. Kalden and mr. M.P.M. Loos. They decided not only that IP addresses 194.71.107.15, 194.71.107.18 and 194.71.107.19 had be blocked by ISP's, but also gave BREIN (the Dutch equivalent of the MPAA) the authority to add any IP address they want to that list, which means that in principle they can take out any website at will without ever having to go to court again.

The latest stable release Mozilla Firefox 10 web browser for desktop and mobile users has been released. Firefox 10 for desktop users brings improvements to the user interface, better add-ons compatibility, CSS 3D-Transforms and several enhancements.

From the 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' files: Greg Kroah-Hartman is joining the Linux Foundation as a 'fellow.' The move means that he's leaving SUSE - that's right kaput, no more SUSE for him.

A content management system is a centralized repository for your content. A Web site is a composite of decentralized fragments that are assembled on the edge, in just-in-time fashion as the content is being delivered to users. If it's not a Web site, what does a CMS do?