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Will The Wild Fox Firefox Fork Disregard Patents?

Most of us users of Mozilla’s Firefox browser are used to getting new versions of Firefox from Mozilla, but, like many open source projects, Firefox has already been forked into other versions. Now, as OSnews reports , a new fork of the browser is taking shape.

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Will The Wild Fox Firefox Fork Disregard Patents?

Will The Wild Fox Firefox Fork Disregard Patents?

Most of us users of Mozilla’s Firefox browser are used to getting new versions of Firefox from Mozilla, but, like many open source projects, Firefox has already been forked into other versions. Now, as OSnews reports , a new fork of the browser is taking shape.

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Will The Wild Fox Firefox Fork Disregard Patents?

FLOSS Manuals Expands Its Open Source Documentation Effort

It’s been a while since we here at OStatic checked in on FLOSS Manuals , an ambitious effort to produce free, online documentation for open source software that we initially covered in this post . FLOSS Manuals is an excellent learning and reference resource for titles such as OpenOffice, Firefox, Audacity, Blender, Inkscape and more

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FLOSS Manuals Expands Its Open Source Documentation Effort

Myths Debunked: Why It Isn’t So Tough To Switch To Open Source

Can businesses and organizations paying for expensive licenses for proprietary software successfully switch to free, open source alternatives? If you ask many IT managers about that, they’ll cite two common reasons why the answer is no, including “lack of adequate support” and “insufficient documentation.” Or, as discussed in this post , inexplicable bugs in open source software can outrule the switch.

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Myths Debunked: Why It Isn’t So Tough To Switch To Open Source

Ubuntu Spreads Out to Svelte, Lightweight Netbook Editions

Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth is out with some very interesting news about Ubuntu in a blog post today .

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Ubuntu Spreads Out to Svelte, Lightweight Netbook Editions