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The Mingw32 environment is a great thing. It lets me develop an app for Windows on my Linux computers without even having to think about the platform differences – apart from directory separator and stuff like that. Well, most often. Looks like the Winsock2 API is really, really far off the POSIX way of doing…

Good news from slashdot today: the EU procedure on software patents has been restarted! This means it’ll be harder for the pro-patents lobby to push it down our throats (like, say, during a fisheries meeting). Here’s the GrokLaw story, and the FFII article (in french). Big thanks to everyone involved in this! And…

My best friend Yann, who runs Develog, a service company oriented towards free software and customer respect, just launched PCLinux, an online shop dedicated to selling configurable PCs, exempt from the so-called Windows tax. The machines come pre-installed with the distribution you choose. Let’s hope this’ll work as Yann wishes, as he already put lots…

From Nat Friedman’s blog, Andrew Overholt’s blog, and referenced in Havoc Pennington’s one, you can see nice flash demos about bleeding edge free software. Congrats, people, you’re leading the open-source world and you provide demos that no one can read without using proprietary plugins. I find that ironic, at best….