Wednesday, November 5, 2008

05-Nov-2008 PM clippings

Enjoy:

The Dutch discover a new way to make money using Open Source software - they designed the new 5 Euro coin with it:
http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-money-with-free-software.html

Xiph.org releases the Ogg Theora V1.0 video codec, which will be supported by Firefox out-of-the-box and has no patent restrictions:
http://www.xiph.org/press/2008/theora-release-1.0/

Bid adieu to Microsoft Windows 3.x as it is finally retired from service:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7707016.stm

And finally. A new organisation plans to give one laptop - I mean, velociraptor - to every child:
http://velociraptorz.org/

Vik :v) Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. http://diamondage.co.nz

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