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Piracy Hurts Open Source Also!

In an earlier article we established that piracy of software is basically a given in today’s world where information is so easily shared and duplicated. We also established that no matter what DRM measures are implemented by commercial software developers, no matter how advanced or how draconian they are, someone’s always going to find a »

Howto: Upgrade to Adobe Air Beta on Ubuntu

I love Adobe Air! Applications like Twhirl and Woopra have become an important part of my daily computing arsenal. Over the past 6 month I have been running Adobe Air alpha which wasn’t exactly quirk-less. Twhirl never saved my passwords, never minimized to the panel, and the window always had a black shadow around it. »

Why DRM Should Be Kicked to The Curb

This is a guest post by Ian McLean, an Australian Linux and Open Source aficionado currently based in Romania. The Information Age: Where Everything Is Free I once was having a light conversation with a student friend of mine and told him about OpenOffice.org; I said that it’s free to get and use, it does »