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Open Source CMS (Content management system) creation with Joomla! The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database system to store information. Joomla! CMS plugins [...]

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Through the use of closed source selling strategies game vendors despite slightly increasing sales reduces the game popularity by a 10^3 factor for each additional sale. This not only results in a far lower user base but would also cause the marketing department to spend more money in advertising: users that move away from the [...]

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Prestare tanta attenzione al pensionamento di Bill Gates significa perdere di vista la questione centrale. Ciò che conta davvero non è Gates, né Microsoft, ma il sistema perverso delle restrizioni che Microsoft, come molte altre società di software, impone a suoi clienti. Tale dichiarazione può sorprendere, dato che la maggior parte delle persone interessate a [...]

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By Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm To pay so much attention to Bill Gates’ retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers. That statement may surprise you, since most people interested [...]

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I’m just quoting hereafter a Richard Stallman post on Gnome Foundation newsgroup. His words should make us think of what’s recently happening in Gnome Community (think of OOXML and MONO adoption thoughts, and to M. De Icaza policies). What a shame… GNOME is based on a philosophy, but it is not just a philosophy. It [...]

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Segnalo alcuni interessanti video introduttivi sulle tematiche della Proprietà Intellettuale, Copyright e affini prodotti da Christian Biasco e Francesca Terri e distribuiti da arcoiris.tv cui vanno i miei ringraziamenti. per vedere la lista completa dei video clicca qui In particolare la puntata numero 4 riguarda il mondo del Copyleft ed OpenSource. link diretti per questa [...]

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