Tag Archives: free software
Suggestions to new Free Software Hackers
Lennart Poettering, is the Red Hat developer of PulseAudio and systemd (among other things). He published the slides for his lecture at Technical University of Berlin where he spoke to students about “things you need to know, things you should … Continue reading
Pencil Project for GUI prototyping
I was looking for a GUI prototyping tool that I could use to draft a new skin for a website and also for an Android application. I knew of Balsamiq but I prefer not to use non-free software when possible. … Continue reading
GNU Telephony working on a Skype replacement
Nathan Willis on LWN explains quite well the role of two GNU projects as Skype replacements: SIP Witch and GNU Free Call. SIP Witch, the call server developed by the GNU Telephony project, made its stable 1.0 release in May. … Continue reading
How I went from architecture to free/libre software
When I tell people that I studied as an architect I always get a question: how did you end up in technology and why do you advocate Free Software/Open Source if you studied brick-and-mortar? The answer I usually give is … Continue reading
New release for Neubot, the Net Neutrality monitor
Neubot is a “software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet” in order to quantify network neutrality. The software is aresearch project on network neutrality of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino. The project … Continue reading
Ryzom is free as in freedom software
Ryzom is a Massive Multyplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), a beautiful one, with a very big universe and a lot of users. With the help of FSF, Winch Gate Properties, the copyright holders of Ryzom, released the server and … Continue reading
Eben Moglen’s Freedom in the Cloud Talk
I watched Eben’s speech but now I can quote it too thanks to the transcript done by the friends at Software Freedom Law Center. Talking about the problems of the cloud services, Eben hits Facebook hard with his rhetoric: The … Continue reading
What Symbian is risking by freeing its code
I honestly cannot understand the fear of forks that is spreading within the Symbian community. Since Symbian Foundation released the full source code of the operating system under the Eclipse Public License I’ve read few comments like the following: I … Continue reading
Choose a good license and manage well the community
Some of the things that Mike Tienman said in this interview with InternetNews.com I could have said myself. I have come to believe that a license alone is neither a secret to success nor an absolution of sin. Exactly: choosing … Continue reading
How To Mix Agile And Software Developed By A Community
Back from Italian Agile Day where Stefano Fornari of Funambol with Marco Abis of Sourcesense animated a debate about mixing Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Agile development methods. I used to think that there was no issue because, after … Continue reading
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