About the title of this blog
The first title was "Another blog about free software". Later I changed it to "The bright side" as a tribute of Monty Python's "Always look at the bright side of life" (from Brian's Life film). The background philosophy of free software and its communities also make me feel these good vibrations coming from the bright side of life.
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Using Git for translations
Git is a distributed control version system, and it is widely used for maintaining source code in libre software projects. Git can track changes to any text file (not only source code), so may be used also to maintain text-based … Continue reading
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Completing a Windows 7 preinstallation with libre software
An Acer Aspire One D255E notebook came to my hands with a Windows 7 starter preinstallation (and dual boot with Android too, this I will explain in other post). The owner did not want to wipe out Windows, but complete … Continue reading
Oracle won’t collaborate on LibreOffice
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols from ComputerWorld writes in “The OpenOffice fork is officially here” about a mail received from Oracle after OpenOffice’s newborn fork LibreOffice. Oracle encourages the OpenOffice community to contribute directly to it. Although explaining that The Document Foundation … Continue reading
LibreOffice, a fork of OpenOffice, from The Document Foundation
After Oracle adquired Sun Microsistems, many of the Sun’s projects of free software now depend on Oracle, a company with a complex relationship with the free software community. Today I learned that the community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org … Continue reading
