Thus, boiling mad, Gates writes a letter to the free-software bums at the Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park, Calif.
This is the case that may deliver a knockout blow to business method patents, those patents that everybody from free-software zealots to conservative Republicans love to hate.
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For the free software movement, however, non-free software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free software.
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Currently, he's defending Napster , the free-music software company, against the recording industry.
The latest mobile-to-mobile development was independent of the free video-calling software Skype, which was already integrated into Facebook's website, a spokesman said.
Freshdesk had initially hoped its results would show apps with customer support crushing their support-less counterparts since the company offers app developers a free plug-in software product, MobiHelp, to serve as a layered-on customer support solution.
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McDerment's online strategy starts with his Web site, which features a custom-made forum that runs on free, open-source software called PunBB.
It says that non-free software is an inferior solution to the practical problem at hand.
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This free trip-planning software even allows users to create Garmin Adventures- where they can upload their photos for online storage and share with friends, family or fellow explorers.
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Free open-source software is chosen over conventional packages.
That's more the approach of Merrill Garbus, whose solo project is spelled tUnE-yArDs. (Hey, you won't forget her name, right?) Her 2009 album BiRd-BrAiNs began life as a DIY cassette release, assembled with a handheld voice recorder the "note to self" kind and free audio-editing software.
To bring his idea to life, the Silicon Valley-based designer first created a 3D computer model of the Tardis's interior using the free-to-use open source computer software programme Blender.
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Yet a question remains over Microsoft's promise to give rival software-makers some cost-free, additional access to its software protocols.
OpenCongress aims to make federal government more responsive through free, open-source software, with the goal of greater civic engagement.
Free, Web-based software is good enough to achieve widespread use that will eventually convert into corporate approvals and big deals.
It distributes its hypervisor as free, open-source software but sells related products.
With the same fervor that rallied the open-source free software movement, members of such groups as Seattle Wireless, in Seattle, Washington, SFLan in San Francisco and Consume.net in London are bolting radio antennas to their roofs and broadcasting a shared invisible connection to their friends down the block.
The iGUGU InterneTV system consists of an innovative, compact handheld wireless remote control, wireless or cable-based options to connect the PC to the television, and an easy-to-use, powerful, software application that aggregates free and subscription-based content on the Internet, giving users the ability to search, catalog and play more content than any other solution on the market.
Less cool is the outlook for profits, seeing as how the software is free--standard for viral marketers.
Free, user-friendly blogging software has turned the Web into a virtual soapbox.
Primping aside, it will be interesting to see whether consumers agree with Siu and Intel chairman Craig Barrett that Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC is little more than a gadgety PDA, or whether free, robust open-source software is more appealing to the budget-conscious geek.
Zango's predecessor, N-case, bundled free software like MP3 utilities without adequately informing users they were also getting spyware.
TaxACT has pushed the envelope in the industry since it came onto the scene, forcing competitors to match its free e-filing options and lower software products.
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Coleman is one of dozens of new barbarians plotting the Cheap Revolution, the wholesale shift by corporate customers and techmakers to cheap chips and open-source (often free) software such as Linux.
Often this free software and these pop-ups have malware embedded.
Microsoft is desperate to grab a bigger share of the online-advertising market because many of its software products are being challenged by free, advertising-supported services offered by Google.
But now, GreenPrint is offering a free version of the software for non-business use, supported by advertising.
Most antivirus vendors also offer 30-day free trial versions of their software from their Website for download.
When a client's business dropped off, she says, employees were told to "warm-call" them offering free software upgrades and volume discounts.
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