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Finally the release date  has been announced:
17th June 2008
The day Mozilla and Firefox will try to enter in the Guinnes World Record as the most downloaded software in 24 hours.
Here is available a nice screencast showing the new features of Firefox 3. 

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Mark Shuttleworth has just posted on his blog the interview he released to the italian magazine Linux-Magazine. The interview should appear, translated in Italian, in the next number of the magazine.
It has a great variety of argument addressed and it gives an updates on Shuttleworth's vision on the directions of Ubuntu and also Free Software [...]

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Another interesting interview by Roberto Galoppini to italian 'hacktivists' or professionals in the field of Free Software. This is the time of Simo Sorce. Italian developer who is working now for RedHat and he is the Samba Team GPL compliance officer. 
Like the previous interviews, reading this one, you get to know some aspects of the [...]

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Not the first, and most likely not the last, open letter that has been addressed to the nice calm and open minded man we all know under the name of Steve A. Ballmer.This time is the CEO of Mandriva, François Bancilhon, to raise some criticism on the way of doing businesses of Microsoft Corp.
People worked [...]

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It's finally arriving
As you might have noticed going through some blogs (interested in Free Software) one of the most awaited announcement has been made, through the info-gplv3 mailing list and i will report it here:
On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL [...]

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On Roberto Galoppini's weblog is now available an interesting interview to Carlo Piana, who is definitely a key player within the EU vs Micrsoft antitrust case.
It could be because Roberto and Carlo know each other and they both advocates for Free Software or for other reasons i can't know, but the interview appears very interesting [...]

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Great!
I downloaded the new version: WengoPhone 2.1 (OpenWengo 2.1.0) and it worked out at the first shot. I just had to set the right audio card in the general-audio settings and it did work There are still some messages in the terminal appearing once in a while, but i guess those are just minor [...]

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I've been looking for VoIP Free Software since a while. I've always liked Ekiga, but at same time always got some problems with it. Since i'm running a 64bit os i never had the chance to test Wengophone 2.0 rc in the proper way.
The package which comes with my distro is not as stable as [...]

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June started with the release of the last draft of the GPLv3.After a short period for commenting, the draft will get the final and official form, thus switching then from a 'draft status' to a 'copyright license' status
You might consider then to release your software under the new version of the license and [...]

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The Free Software Foundation launches its latest campaign for software freedom.OGG Vorbis, developed by the Xiph Foundation  is one of the best audio format available today.It's Free (as in freedom) and, unlike the MP3, has no software patents encumbrance.
So whenever you can PlayOGG and play free
 

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