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Canonical and Banshee: making money with others’ open source

25 February 2011, 14:30 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

The recent fuss about the division of revenue from Banshee’s Amazon MP3 store made me think about the moral right of making money with help of the open source code written (partially) by others. In this post I would like … Continue reading →

Banshee 1.9 (future 2.0) with DAAP music sharing

24 February 2011, 18:29 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

It has been more than two years since I’ve published a post about DAAP music sharing with Banshee 1.4. Judging from my site’s statistics, that still is a very popular piece. However, things have changed a bit since November 2008, … Continue reading →

‘Ubuntu Linux’, ‘Ubuntu GNU/Linux’? No, use ‘Ubuntu’!

19 February 2011, 0:44 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Reading the title you might wonder why I would want to risk the possibility of yet another flame war between “Linux” and “GNU/Linux” proponents. The reason for this is that I am not only choosing neither side, but also because … Continue reading →

Retiring from the Ubuntu community

30 January 2011, 17:25 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Since I first used Ubuntu, in December 2005, a lot of things has changed. Ubuntu has improved tremendously and improved more than I could imagine when I booted from the Breezy Badger separate Live CD, to see what this Ubuntu … Continue reading →

Open source communities: assuming intelligence?

23 January 2011, 14:46 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Ubuntu is growing, there is no doubt about that. As the number of users grow, so does the number of potential community members. Not all Ubuntu users choose to spend time in the community, but a part does. This group … Continue reading →

The Economy of Free changes our roles in the free market

12 January 2011, 22:11 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Despite its many flaws, of all the simplifying models we have available, the free market has gained the most support and apparently seems to be working the best, if used with caution. Most economies in the world are being run … Continue reading →

Changes to the One Hundred Paper Cuts project for the Natty cycle

19 November 2010, 13:43 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

As you may have noticed from Ivanka Majic’s article on the Canonical Design blog asking for contributors to the One Hundred Paper Cuts project, we are running it again this cycle. We will try to fix as many nuisances in … Continue reading →

My goals for the Natty cycle

15 November 2010, 7:00 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

It is now two weeks after UDS in Orlando and the test week at school ended yesterday, so I now have time again to plan for the Natty cycle. Previous cycles I’ve been very unfocused and I did a lot … Continue reading →

Language barrier is an innovation barrier

13 November 2010, 16:54 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

This is a though I just came up with. I haven’t given it much thinking, but I would like to share it with you anyway, just to make you think again. Website popularity usually goes one way: from the English … Continue reading →

Ubuntu Developer Summit Natty, Thursday and Friday

1 November 2010, 22:56 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

The Ubuntu Developer Summit is over! I’m sitting at home now, and after a day of recovery tomorrow the regular life of school and homework will start again. And how it will start! Next week is a testweek full of … Continue reading →

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