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Hello, we’re from the Internet

Posted at 10:35pm on Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 by

Replace “Ubisoft” with “any traditional media that has, thus far, failed to ‘get it’” and one animated gif pretty much sums up the current state of play:

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Introducing Portify

Posted at 11:10pm on Monday, March 8th, 2010 by

I done gone made a thing – portify converts audio files from any format to one more suitable for your portable player.  For me, sadly, that means converting everything to mp3.

Testers are welcome, particularly on non-Linux platforms, but please be gentle :)

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Today’s learning

Posted at 2:26pm on Monday, April 14th, 2008 by

You can’t do strike through in PowerPoint.  But that’s OK, because you can always replicate it using the drawing tool.

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Free software is still legal

Posted at 6:45pm on Sunday, November 12th, 2006 by

I have to admit to not having heard anything about this story until now, when it appears to have already run its course. Still, it’s a fascinating (if very flawed) argument that Wallace puts forward…

Essentially, by giving software away, they have stifled competition by creating an environment where small developers can’t compete with Linux’s price-point. The GPL functions as the conspiracy in this strange world, since it is a common effort to pull the price-rug out from under any potential competitors.

As an aside, I do wish El Reg would stop sniping at OSS… Comments like “And even though these new products might be clunky, difficult to use and inaccessible to all but the geekiest of geeks, such a cooperative is not illegal” are painfully indicative of the paper’s opinion of OSS; perhaps they have forgotten that (among other things) the Apache and PHP that drive their website is Open Source?

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