Say NO to Software Patents

by jp on June 22, 2005

The Software Patents Directive, as approved by the European Council of Ministers, would codify US-style Software Patents in the European Union. If that happens, software developers will no longer own what they write and can be sued for selling or (…)

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GNOME Luminocity and Cairo

by jp on June 18, 2005

Here is a couple of very intresting GUI updates for GNOME. Luminocity is a 3-D window manager using Open GL with effects like warping windows and alpha compositing. Cairo is an antialiased font and stroke renderer that makes GNOME look (…)

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Search engine for code

by jp on June 15, 2005

Koders.com is the web’s largest search engine for identifying and accessing open source that developers can leverage in their own applications. Koders.com is currently indexing hundreds of thousands lines of code from thousands projects in hundreds of open source repositories, (…)

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Comment spamming is back

by jp on June 12, 2005

Damn, I am again under attack of comment spammers. Soon I will need to close comments here. :( I wish I would know who does this spamming.

User Interface Copyright

by jp on June 7, 2005

Software patents threaten to devastate computer industry everwhere in a world. I found article of The League for Programming Freedom from MIT writing in Against User Interface Copyright how companies like Microsoft and Apple tries to sue and extort other (…)

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