Howdy all, On last night's Byte Into It, we had whole lot of software freedom discussion, and Vanessa even gave a shout-out to Free Software Melbourne for tonight.
* LibreOffice 3.6 released, and people can upgrade or stay with the previous release as it's still supported. * CyanogenMod 9 released as stable for dozens of smartphones and tablets. * A new TV-connected game console based on Android, the Ouya has been funded with over US$8mn and will be hackable from day one. * Adobe cautiously joins the free-software font movement with Source Sans Pro released under free software terms, treading ground blazed by foundries like Arkandis and Bitstream and The League of Moveable Type. * User rights online are championed by the Terms Of Service; Didn't Read and Data Protection announcements. * Codecademy adds Python courses to their online training. * Ben is excited leading up to this year's PyCon AU convention for Python programmers, in Hobart this weekend. * Tor Books, who earlier this year participated in the Day Against DRM by going completely DRM-free, is being targeted by a book publisher who wants authors to pressure Tor to DRM-encumber their books and bends the truth of DRM in the message. * We discuss how DRM is an anti-feature, that (unlike a feature) customers are willing to go to significant effort to avoid having in the product, as more people (in the USA) read e-books, more often than dead-tree books. * Music and book publishers release bundles of DRM-free, pay-what-you-want works. * Google announce they will make search rankings worse for sites targeted by takedown notices. * Monthly tech meetups in Melbourne: DrupalMel mentoring session, Melbourne Raspberry Jam, and Free Software Melbourne. At <URL:http://rrrfm.libsyn.com/webpage/byte-into-it-15-august-2012> you can download the audio for the show. _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
