Andrew Cullison

So, three things have happened that should have open source software enthusiasts excited. The new Ubuntu is coming out soon (OK, that’s not news - but I had to mention it) OpenOffice 3.0 was released yesterday. It was so popular the website crashed! Check out there website - they’re still running super-downgraded version to control [...]

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Ubuntu’s newest version will be released at the end of October! That will also mark my 6 month of being almost entirely Windows free! I’ve decided to do my part in helping promote Ubuntu by posting their countdown on the blog here. I’m also posting a list of some of my favorite posts related to [...]

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I’ve ranted a lot about how awesome I think Ubuntu is. It’s a super, user-friendly Linux alternative to Mac and Windows. One of the benefits that I like to emphasize when I try to persuade someone that they should consider Linux has to do with social justice. There is good reason to believe that Linux [...]

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Two very good discussions regarding the recent lawsuit that EndNote makers filed against the makers of Zotero - here and here. Stop using EndNote. [HT: Mark Eli Kalderon]

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Stop using Endnote. Thomson Reuters, the maker of Endnote, is suing Virginia over Zotero. The claim is that the makers of Zotero reverse engineered Endnote to make Zotero. However, it doesn’t look like that’s true. It looks like Zotero allows users to use their own Endnote file and save their bibliographic information back as an [...]

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[Update: Bad news philosophers. I contacted the company to see what philosophy offerings they might have in 2009 and found out they have none. It turns out they're only a four person operation and are focusing on just Business and Economics right now.] Awesome. I’ve ranted a lot about open source software and open access [...]

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I’ve been ranting enough about switching to Ubuntu for professional reasons, that I thought people interested in those posts might be interested in some of these items that I’ve come across today. Here’s a fun list that should be of interest to Linux lovers. This is kind of funny. Dell has discovered a loophole to [...]

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In this New York Times article, a business professor discusses one of the major issues he thinks Windows faces. My Summary: Windows is a piece-meal, monothilic OS based on 60s and 70s code dogma. It’s a Frankenstein OS. It’s basically 30 years of patching and unfinished quilt-work. His recommendation as a business professor to a [...]

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This article claims that running user generated content sites like YouTube and Wikipedia is like running a virtual sweatshop. Really? I don’t even know where to begin. What concerns me is that I could easily see this kind of argument get co-opted by proprietary software companies to try and say that there is something morally [...]

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I’m still loving my switch to Ubuntu. I’m even making philosophy Ubuntu wallpapers. Now it looks like Richard Chapelle recently made the switch to Ubuntu. He’s got a list of possible downsides and concludes, the benefits seem to outweigh the costs. I agree. There is one downside that came up in the comments that I [...]

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