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Professional sports have reached a point when the leagues are primarily about money, not about the games, as this article points at an example.

We should probably look way past the insignificant issue of licensing fees and see the much bigger problem.

eBay's threat to shut Skype down over licensing disputes is a prime example of why everyone from corporations to users must think about open source.

A few musings from my identi.ca posts in response to the media trying to make a story when there is not one.

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"Body Next to Body" by Falco with Brigitte Nielsen; "Industrial Revolution" by Jean Michel Jarre

There is no denying it: the 80s were a decade of musical excess. Today we have two examples for your consideration.

A forum encounter with a user worried about committing to Pressflow emphasizes the importance of understanding the Drupal cross-compatibility.

Whitehouse.gov implementing Drupal has open source advocates rejoicing, but it is worth remembering that using open source is not the same as being open source.

In the spirit of true open source, Drupal has its own forks or distributions, or whatever we want to call them.

Not surprisingly, when an open source solution is stable, flexible and powerful, it is bound to gain a large userbase and scores of developers who want to customize it. The best aspect of such tweaking is that the results are released back to the community. Let us look at some popular Drupal distributions today.

"The Gathering" by Delain; "The Other Side" by Sirenia

While service plans and extended warranties on consumer electronics are often money-sucking schemes, protecting your licenses for music production software is a good idea.