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Using your logic, we can conclude that no one should be able to use the wheel, because at some point in the past someone else invented it?

>/g/ in particular is known for much pointless banter arguing over the best GNU+Linux distro You mean arguing about the second best GNU/Linus distro. Everyone knows the best distro…

>Github maintained by someone with a troll username? >Comments like this >> IMPORTANT: release two major sanctioned UIs, one for autists, one with inbuilt support for the previous …

Tox aims to be a secure replacement for Skype. There's several other similar projects, but they are usually hard to set up and use for an average user. Tox is FLOS software develop…

>I'm not trusting a messaging service whose marketing site I can't even reach You would rather trust a huge corporation instead of a community-developed project?

>The third project I would not like to leave unmentioned is LISP, a fascinating enterprise of a completely different nature. With a few very basic principles at its foundation, it …

This article feels like it's from a completely different era -- an early age of computers with wild discoveries and unexplored frontiers. But in reality it wasn't that long ago and…

I didn't dodge the question, because I agree with the first part -- Russia is a horrible country with a corrupt government that imprisons/kills activists and journalists. I only di…

I don't think anything would be different if he was a woman.

Yes, this is PR. But what else were this companies supposed to do? If they disclosed any information, then they would get into a lot of trouble with the government and possible get…

Thank you for this this great article! I am currently trying to learn more about the hardware and lower-level aspects of computer, and this was a really interesting read. You may b…

There is some things which are totally legal, but morally wrong. Canonical doesn't have a legal obligation to contribute kernel code, but it doesn't make their behaviour right, and…

F.U.D. You said that Ubuntu is not "flexible" anymore, but now you are running OS X and Win8? Are you kidding me? It's like moving to North Korea because of NSA's spying. The only …