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Is OpenOffice Drifting Dangerously?

Dana Blankenhorn notes that OpenOffice.org is “drifting,” which certainly seems to be true, although we’ve pointed out that it is definitely still kicking . Without a doubt, now that Oracle has swallowed up Sun Microsystems and is, by default, the new steward of the world’s most popular open source suite of productivity applications, there are questions to be asked about the future of OpenOffice

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Qbo, Based On Linux, To Join Growing Field Of Open Source Robots

Slowly but surely, the field of open source robotics has expanded, and we’ve covered some of the most promising robot projects before. These include the iCub , which runs on an open source software platform found here , and open source robotics competition entries , with participants from all around the world. Now, one of the more interesting new open source robots is Qbo (shown), a Linux-based robot from the folks at thecorpora.com

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Qbo, Based On Linux, To Join Growing Field Of Open Source Robots

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. Dubbed Wild Fox, one of the more interesting new aspect of it is that it supports the H.264 coded for video.

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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?

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?