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      <title>Rich Morin on packaging, documentation, metadata</title>
      <link>http://advogato.org/article/113.html</link>
      <description>The hacker and &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.ptf.com/&quot;&gt;PTF&lt;/a&gt; founder &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/&quot;&gt;Rich Morin&lt;/a&gt;
posted a link to a &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/Meta.html&quot;&gt;draft&lt;/a&gt; of an article
about packaging, documentation, and metadata.  I think it will be
of interest to some people here.</description>
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      <title>A possible solution to the Qt/KDE license dilemma</title>
      <link>http://advogato.org/article/112.html</link>
      <description>There has once again been quite a stir in the community about the Qt/KDE
license incompatibility after Dr.G&#252;nter Bechly&apos;s unsuccessful attempt to
solve the problem by offering the KDE team a donation of $3000 if they
came up with a solution.

&lt;p&gt; The attempt was clearly doomed to failure since too many people already
have contributed, either directly or indirectly through code reuse, to
the KDE code base to make it possible to get all peoples written
acceptance to change the license. Besides, that would both be a moving
target, since new code all the time gets linked to Qt in the shape of
KDE applications, and largely impractical for future development.

&lt;p&gt; However, when reading through the aftermath of it all in a Slashdot
discussion I came up with an idea that both might work and be a quite
convenient solution...</description>
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      <title>Initial Announcement of OFSET</title>
      <link>http://advogato.org/article/111.html</link>
      <description>Free software in education is highly important.  This is why several
members of
the free software community have established OFSET, Organization for
Free
Software in Education and Teaching.  This organization will try to raise
funds
for development of free educational software, promote development of
free
educational software and coordinate the development of specific
projects.</description>
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      <title>Establishment of handhelds.org</title>
      <link>http://advogato.org/article/110.html</link>
      <description>I am pleased to post the following at the request of Jim Gettys:

&lt;p&gt; The open source and research communities have expressed great interest
in the Itsy pocket computer research project of Compaq&apos;s corporate
research labs. With the recent appearance on the market of products
with most of the attributes that made the Itsy pocket computer so
exciting, both from Compaq (the iPAQ H3600) and other companies, we
believe that the time is ripe for more serious work in the general
open source software community.</description>
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      <title>The global domain name service is obsolete.</title>
      <link>http://advogato.org/article/109.html</link>
      <description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.icann.org/&quot;&gt;ICANN&lt;/a&gt;, the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers, has opened up a &lt;A href=&quot;http:
//www.icann.org/mbx/newtlds/&quot;&gt;public comment period&lt;/a&gt; for their &lt;A
href=&quot;http://www.dnso.icann.org/&quot;&gt;Domain Name Supporting Organization&lt;/a&gt;&apos;s proposal on the &lt;A href=&quot;http:
//www.icann.org/yokohama/new-tld-topic.htm&quot;&gt;introduction of new top-
level domains&lt;/a&gt;. In this essay, which I&apos;ve submitted to their comment
system, I try to outline my assertion that DNS, on a global scale, has

&lt;p&gt; outlived it&apos;s usefulness in lieu of technologies more appropriate for
the massive level of growth that the Internet has seen since DNS was
first put forward as a means of hierarchal addressing and location.
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      <title>Napster/Gnutella: the real story</title>
      <link>http://advogato.org/article/108.html</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Well, I guess this is already on slashdot but since I never read
slashdot and maybe a few people here do so,  I thought some people might
find the folowing paper from &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/ &quot;&gt;Courtney
Love&lt;/a&gt; interesting. (yes, she obviously has a brain ;)</description>
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    <item>
      <title>In-Roads to Free Software Development</title>
      <link>http://advogato.org/article/107.html</link>
      <description>Inspired by a &lt;A 
HREF=&quot;http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/04/22/956462340.html&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; 
from Waldo L. Jaquith to Jacob Moorman&apos;s &lt;A 
HREF=&quot;http://www.advogato.org/article/72.html&quot;&gt;&quot;The Importance of Non-
Developer Supporters in Free Software&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.
This document simply describes a few ways to get involved in projects. 
It is aimed to be as general as possible so as to be applicable to all 
projects.
</description>
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      <title>Network Information Services: Revisited</title>
      <link>http://advogato.org/article/106.html</link>
      <description>LDAP, Netinfo, ActiveDirectory.. The problem has been solved many times,
but why are
we still fighting data management issues? Top-down or bottom-up, we
can&apos;t seem to
get it right the first time, and once our directory service gets
inconsistent, its overall use deteriorates quickly...</description>
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      <title>Computation and Human Experience</title>
      <link>http://advogato.org/article/105.html</link>
      <description>Phil Agre recently sent a &lt;a
href=&quot;http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.Computation.and.Huma.html&quot;&gt;chapter&lt;/a&gt;
of his book, Computation and Human Experience to his excellent &lt;a
href=&quot;http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html&quot;&gt;Red Rock
Eater&lt;/a&gt; news service. It looks like food for thought.</description>
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      <title>Towards an economics of free software</title>
      <link>http://advogato.org/article/104.html</link>
      <description>A number of essays and papers purporting to address The Economics of
free software recently. None have been particularly satisfying to this
cat. While trying to get to sleep one recent night, some of the
thoughts that have been percolating on this subject seemed to gel.
Insomniac writings or insightful analysis? Read and decide.</description>
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