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5 articles
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INBUXA Is Here: Why I Forked a Mail Server I Genuinely Admire
Yesterday I gave you a name and nothing else. Today the curtain goes up. INBUXA is a mail and collaboration server, its console and its webmail, built as one suite with every feature in the install — and this is the…
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Thirty-Three Years of Debian
Debian turns 33 this August. A look at why the free, stable, community-governed OS still anchors the Linux world — and how to give back on Debian Day.
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The History of Open Source
Software started out free because nobody thought to sell it. Then it became property, then a movement fought to make it free again, and then the movement won so thoroughly that the companies it fought now run on it. A…
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Open Source: Free as in Freedom
Open source was never about the price. It's a short list of rights, and this year a growing number of companies want the reputation without granting them. What the freedoms actually are, how free software and open…
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The Free Software Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation
One fights for your right to read and change the software you run. The other fights for your rights online, in court. They get mentioned together and confused for each other. Where each came from, what each actually…