There is some current hullabaloo over twitter’s most recent hires. I agree with the commenters on that post. Shutting down productivity tools with two weeks’ notice is an big, big problem. Worse for me is the implication that Twitter are content for this to happen and content to hire people who do this (the comm...

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Nokia have said that once they own the controlling stake (or all) of Symbian, they’ll make it open source within two years under the Eclipse license (see

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Bristol City Council has joined the ODF Alliance, furthering the city’s work as a member of the Government’s Open Source Academy. The Council already uses StarOffice instead of Microsoft Office internally, and has provided

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Recently I was whining about Ananova stopping their XMLTV feeds but hooray for open source cos bleb.org provide This week’s UK TV in XMLTV format. woo!

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There’s lots of cool stuff on the web now and xml/rss is really taking off in a good way (hello memed internet). There’s also been a lot of fuss in the last few days about Mitch Kapor’s “outlook killer” and the Open Source Application Foundation. But in all honestly, there doesn’t...

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