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5 days FOSDEM in Prague this October.

[dc]W[/dc]hat is FOSDEM? It’s a name of a conference held in Brussels, but it also stand for “Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting”.

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This autumn in Prague we will have something like this – A conference of OpenSUSE Project, SUSE Labs, Gentoo and Linux Days at the same time:  October 22-23 and right after that 4 days of PostgreSQL Conference
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A whole [tooltip title="Welll ..almost a week" gravity="e"][mark color="yellow"]week[/mark][/tooltip] of F(L)OSS activities, hacking parties and talks. Save the dates :)

Wrong marketing approach from Comodo and ActiveState.

I have downloaded a free version of Comodo IDE, called Comodo Edit. It’s fucking good IDE for HTML5, PHP, JS and [put your own language here].

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So far so good. I gave my email address to them, because I like the product and the team. After 12 seconds I receive this “help material”.
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They don’t want to provide me help how to get started, but to sell me the pro-edition:

 
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I understand that approach, but please first give me what I need – links and materials to help me to understand “Comodo EDIT” better and 1 month after that send me an offer for the better IDE.

 

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May 4th: the Day against DRM

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inbound.org block my account because of my educational campaign.

I am really happy that there are some websites that really understands how the web works and blocks everything that is “dangerous” for the monkeys.

inbound.org blocks my account because of this educational campaign. (Click on the button, don’t worry)

Bravo!

What do you think?

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