Posts Tagged with "free software"

GCompris, the best suite of free educational software for children

Friday, May 1, 2009

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GCompris is amazing, its fun and kids love it. Over the years I’ve distributed a lot of educational freedom respecting software and GCompris is popular. Lets look at some info from the GCompris Wikipedia article: It is available for Linux, Mac OS…

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OpenOffice.org 3.0

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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Exciting stuff, OpenOffice.org 3.0 release candidate 1 is available to download from the website. It is not recommended for production deployment at this stage but it is suitable for use for anyone who wants to help with initial bug reporting, issues…

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Happy Birthday to GNU

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

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Happy birthday GNU :) Thank you to all the GNU hackers that write free software, thank you for giving me so much freedom when I use my computer and thanks from my friends who I share it with :D I’m not familiar…

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BadVista campaign

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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In January the Green Party and Greenpeace issued warnings about the tremendous threat posed to the environment by the disposable computer mentality promoted in Microsoft’s $500-million Windows Vista marketing campaign. Vista has steep hardware requirements which in turn means that…

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ACTA threatens free software

Friday, July 18, 2008

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ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a proposed enforcement treaty between United States, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, Mexico and New Zealand, with Canada set to join in the near future. Although the proposed treaty’s title…

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A Documentry To Check Out

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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This looks interesting. Update: You can watch Alternative Freedom and download Alternative Freedom.

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Warrington School opts for free software

Sunday, June 22, 2008

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I was just about to jump into bed and thought I’d read the network news aka planet talo and saw Leighs post “More progressive action from New Zealand’s South Island“. Just go read his post and leave a comment. Otago Daily Times article:…

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Creative Commons Australia Mayer and Bettle Sequel

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

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I’ve been looking at free software for hosting your own site similar to youtube. Im leaning towards Plumi and have also thought about using phpmotion. I spend way to much time looking at the sites using the software and watching lots…

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