pReferences may belong in an encyclopedia, but what purpose do they serve in Perl?/p

p...The AHA project is a networking art platform created to promote hacktivism and art on the Internet related to the Italian net culture and underground movement [...] The basic idea of hacker ethics (for the Italian community) has a strong political and activist meaning and it is strictly related to the idea of sharing knowledge, developing free software and fighting for social and political rig/p pa href=http://www.fsdaily.com/Philosophy/Why_Put_an_End_to_Proprietary_Platformsread more/a/p

pNovell gets some new intellectual monopolies and Microsoft gets sued over patent infringement/p

pVMware's new COO is... a former Microsoft executive, just like the new CEO/p

pA summary of patent news of relevance to Free software/p

pOLPC News about how Microsoft duped, mistreated or exploited MIT Media Lab/p

pWITH M.Arun, special officer of the proposed International Centre Forbr / Free And Open Source Software(ICFOSS), also getting marching orders,br / free software exponents in the state suspect the entry of a dreadedbr / virus allegedly spread by Microsoft to shutdown the free softwarebr / movement in the state./p

pShepherding the safety of your data by keeping the sheep confused ;)/p

pI’ve spent some time looking at Emacs Lisp lately and there’s a weird ecosystem going on there. ELisp (and I’m thinking primarily about Emacs configuration here) tends to grow organically, because it’s paced by a person’s learning of the editor. Every now and then someone needs a new function, and they either search or ask around for something similar./p pa href=http://www.fsdaily.com/Beginner/ELisp_best_practicesread more/a/p

pAs the subject says, Firebug 1.3.0 Final is now up on addons.mozilla.org. Release notes are here. As mentioned previously, this version will not be compatible with Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) and up. For that you’ll need a Firebug 1.4 alpha, soon to be dubbed beta available on getfirebug.com’s releases directory. Notes are on the releases page.../p

pAcross classrooms, government departments and public undertakings in Kerala, a quiet but radical shift is taking place. Students, teachers and bureaucrats have thrown proprietary software out of the windows and switched to free software./p pa href=http://www.fsdaily.com/Philosophy/Latha_Jishnu_Keralas_inspiring_new_revolutionread more/a/p

p« “Internet amp; Creation : how to recognize non-market exchanges over the internet while funding creation” has been published in French on 28 October 2008 by InLibroVeritas. See the French page for details. An English-speaking version adapted for global readership is in the works. An English summary can be found below... »/p

pIf you are in a local area network environment with a host of running Bittorrent or Gnutella, the speed of the network is significantly reduced./p pa href=http://www.fsdaily.com/Beginner/Debian_Etch_Gateway_Router_Firewall_with_Layer7_and_IPP2P_for_P2P_Blockingread more/a/p

p...In fact, an inventory of Apple's remaining DRM armory makes it vividly clear that DRM (backed by the DMCA) is almost always about eliminating legitimate competition, hobbling interoperability, and creating de facto technology monopolies: .../p

pInterview with Daniel Robbins. Founder of Gentoo Linux and his current project is Funtoo.../p

pI'm working on designing a microformat that can be used to indicate the location of VCS (git, svn, etc) repositories related to a web page. I'd appreciate some web standards-savvy eyes on my rel-vcs microformat rfc.../p

pGRUB 2, the next-generation Linux boot loader, has received a new font engine. Version 2 of the GRand Unified Bootloader introduces this new font engine that's written in C and with a font tool in Java. This engine will allow for better internationalization support including non-ASCII character codes and support for multiple fonts./p

p...And a pretty important one: The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. So why might GNU/Linux help? Well.../p

pYesterday was a great day. We, the open source group at Jordan University of Science and Technology were holding a Linux installation festival to teach people about FOSS and to show them the path to their freedom. There were four distros: Ubuntu 8.10, openSUSE 11.1, Mandriva, Fedora 10 and PC BSD./p

pThe Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications has issued an administrative ruling increasing the use of Free Open Source Software products at state agencies, increasing the software's use both in the back office and on the desktop./p pa href=http://www.fsdaily.com/Government/Vietnam_to_widely_use_open_source_softwareread more/a/p

p...We must continue to put pressure on Apple. That means continuing to boycott all DRM-content on iTunes, including the iPhone and the App Store. We encourage Apple to continue to remove DRM from iTunes content, including all movies, TV shows, games, audiobooks and applications, as well as support for free formats, such as Vorbis and Theora.../p

pIf you know a guy who knows a guy, you already understand this concept ;)/p

p...if you use Emacs and edit MediaWiki pages, check out mediawiki.el and let me know what you think. I'm especially interested in bug reports from anyone./p

p...The Tridgell effect is what happens in the development community as the result of developers who are motivated by primarily by freedom. It might be summarized by the phrase: .../p

pI am pleased to announce the new version of a href=http://www.gnu.org/software/gnubik/ target=_blank rel=nofollowGNUbik/a. a href=http://www.gnu.org/software/gnubik/manual/index.html target=_blank rel=nofollowGNUbik/a is a 3D single player game, which renders a cube similar to the traditional Rubik Cube and invites the player to solve it.../p

pThe newest official XULRunner has been released. XULRunner 1.9.0.5 matches the Firefox 3.0.5 release.../p

p...copyleft is a tool designed to spread freedom in software, at any cost. The FSF, which wrote the GNU and Affero licenses, has the goal to make all software free as in freedom. Companies are ‘free’ to join the revolution, or to look somewhere else for their needs./p pa href=http://www.fsdaily.com/Business/DebGems_announced_as_Proprietary_Platform_Why_the_GNU_Affero_GPL_is_Freedom_for_Network_Servicesread more/a/p

pGreenSQL is a “firewall” for MySQL databases that could help protect your database from SQL injection vulnerabilities./p