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Tips for Leading Open Source Projects, Green Free Software, US Constitution and Mobile Location Information : links 08-08-2008

Filed under: Commercial OSS — by Roberto Galoppini at 5:13 pm on Friday, August 8, 2008

Seven tips for leading free and open source software programmers - have a look at Bruce Byfield’s list of tips, and also Aaron Fulkerson , MindTouch CEO, talking about the need for a strong personality at the head of an open source project and other pieces of advice for open source project leaders.

Free Software Cuts PC Energy Use - A free software program developed by Verdiem that to cut PC energy use by allowing users to schedule when their computer goes into sleep mode.

Constitution Protects Location Information, CDT Argues - The brief argues that a court should require the government to obtain a warrant based on probable cause in order to gain access to cell site location information stored by a cell phone company.

5 Comments »

Comment by Roy Schestowitz

August 10, 2008 @ 7:58 am

Roberto, there’s a problematic typo in the first link (spam site).

Comment by Roberto Galoppini

August 11, 2008 @ 4:34 pm

Thank you Roy, I corrected it now. Ciao!

Comment by Phil Heaton

August 12, 2008 @ 8:56 pm

My site isn’t a “spam site” - the link was incorrectly pointing to an incoming live feed on my website.

Comment by Roberto Galoppini

August 13, 2008 @ 7:58 pm

Yes Phil, it was just a typo (actually more than one).

Comment by Roy Schestowitz

August 14, 2008 @ 10:31 pm

Yes, too of them.

Phil, the typo had it pointing/redir’ing to spammy sites.

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