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MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 19 Dec 2011 : Front Page
First Qt application accepted to Apple’s App StoreQt was always intended as a cross-platform development framework. Nokia took it to Symbian, Maemo, MeeGo and Harmattan. Open source Necessitas took it to Android. Now, Qt4iOS on Twitter says THE qu…
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Zed A. Shaw: Is BSD The New GPL?
What I???m seeing is the following double standard among BSD license users: If you are a commercial company like Apple or Google then BSD licensors love you and want you to have ???true freedom???. If you are a GPL project, they pressure you into releas…
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Data.gov to be Open Sourced for World-Wide Deployment
The Plan “The U.S. and India are working together to produce an open source version available for implementation by countries globally, encouraging governments around the word to stand up open data sites that promote transparency, improve citizen …
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Amazon Releases Kindle Source Code – Slashdot
“Barnes & Noble receives a lot of credit from the slashdot community for standing up to Microsoft and for allowing the nook to be so easy to root, but perhaps Amazon releasing the source code to the Kindle will help it gain back supporters it lost…
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Hollywood’s New War on Software Freedom and Internet Innovation | Electronic Frontier Foundation
This is the third in our series (Part 1, Part 2) breaking down the potential effects of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), an outrageous and grievously misguided bill now working its way through the House of Representatives. This post discusses da…
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Barnes & Noble Names Microsoft’s Disputed Android Patents
Barnes & Noble Names Microsoft’s Disputed Android Patents”B&N is really blowing the lid off of what Microsoft is doing and how they are forcing money from Android. It has accused Microsoft of requiring overly restricted NDA agreements from those e…