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- Komodo Edit (Windows) 5.2.2 (Windows)
- Komodo Edit, based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, offers sophisticated support for all major scripting languages, including in-depth autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, syntax coloring and syntax checking, Vi emulation, Emacs key bindings. Komodo Edit is built on the Mozilla code base and is now licensed under the same...
- Software downloads 2009-11-24
- HandBrake 0.9.4 (Windows)
- HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux.
- Software downloads 2009-11-23
- Web Controller 2003 (Windows)
- Australian Web Hosting controller for the windows hosting account. With the Windows hosting control panel you can control programs like iis6, ftp, dns, frontpage extension, asp.net an many other related services like email and other features like xmail server. The Windows hosting control panel works with all versions of windows...
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- VirtualBox 3.0.12 (Mac)
- innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of...
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- MenuMeters 1.4b4 (Mac)
- MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desktop, which are...
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- Microsoft admits its GPL violation; will reissue Windows 7 tool under open-source license
- Microsoft officials confirmed on November 13 -- a few days after pulling a Windows 7 download tool that allegedly contained improperly-licensed open-souce code -- that the company did, indeed violate the terms of the GNU General Public License GPL. It plans to reissue the source and binaries for the tool...
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL?
- Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU General Public License. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- FET - Free Timetabling Software 5.11 (Windows)
- FET is free, open source GNU/GPL software. Localized to English, Arabic, Catalan, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Dutch, Polish, Romanian and Turkish etc. Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation. Powerful flexible modular xml format for the input file, allowing editing with...
- Software downloads 2009-11-06
- LBackup 0.9.8r2 (Mac)
- LBackup is a simple backup system aimed at systems administrators who require reliable backups with minimum fuss. LBackup is configured with configuration files and the backup is started from the command line. The core LBackup code has been tested for over 2 years. Features at a Glance: ...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
- Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Why? Because MySQL is covered by the GNU Public License GPL, and the purchase has exposed a flaw in the GPL that Stallman says will cause a "major setback" to the development of the free database if the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- VirtualDub 1.9.7 (Windows)
- VirtualDub is a video capture and processing utility licensed under the GNU General Public License GPL. It is designed to be a general utility that can trim and clean up video before exporting to tape or processing with another program. It does not possess the editing power of a general-purpose...
- Software downloads 2009-10-18
- The EULA ... your views
- Every EULA translated in under 15 words:By using this software, you forfeit any right not explicitly protected by law.RE: The EULA ... your viewsSo you just wanted to post to agree with what others agreed with you about? Ok....RE: The EULA ... your viewsOdd how the random sample doesn't...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- On the future of Open Source thought leadership
- After over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is truly able to compromise with the realistic needs of business and end-users without carrying...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- XviD Video Codec 1.2.2 (Windows)
- XviD is an open source MPEG-4 video codec designed for everyone. Its purpose is to compress video in order to allow for faster transmission over computer networks or for more efficient storage on computer disks. Hence, XviD can somewhat be seen as a ZIP archive for video. XviD removes information...
- Software downloads 2009-10-07
- Clonezilla 1.2.2-31 (Windows)
- Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone tool similar to Norton Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE Server Edition.Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive...
- Software downloads 2009-10-06
- DVDStyler 1.7.4 (Windows)
- DVDStyler is a crossplatform DVD Authoring System. It is free software distributed under GNU General Public License GPL. Features: you can drag and drop MPEG files directly; you can import image file for background; you can create NTSC/PAL menus; you can place text and images anywhere on the menu screen...
- Software downloads 2009-10-04
- Open source is sold and FOSS is not
- I'm confusedAre you advocating breaking the GPL license by selling GPL based products by 'open source' companies?We know NT Selling software is not a violation of the GPLSelling softare is not a violation of the GPL. Not in any way, shape or form. In the words of the...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- Hardware 2.0 - Best software applications/tools/utilities
- Why VMware workstation?Why VMware workstation and not VMware server?That was nice. Only, you do all this stuff in Linux for FREEntYes, whats the difference between the two? ntntI was thinking the same thing......just replacing them with other apps.For example, I use Notepad++ which is open source instead of UltraEdit, and...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Microsoft makes Web development tools available for free
- right...'free tools' that cost you arm and leg when you realized you just missed a small component not included in the 'stack'...kind of like getting a free car with no wheels.RE: Microsoft makes Web development tools available for freeFor example? What would one of those components be?Give an ExampleWhat...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- nrg2iso 1.4 (Mac)
- nrg2iso extracts ISO 9660 files from Nero's proprietary .nrg format. This is a GUI wrapper for the linux command line nrg2iso v0.4 tool by G Kokanosky which is available under the GNU GPL. Now modified by Daniel Bulow for 64 bit. Added a new universal version that handles more...
- Software downloads 2009-09-19
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