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unusual facts about free-software



1957–58 NCAA University Division men's basketball season

Dom Flora, a senior point guard at Washington and Lee University, finished his college career with 2,310 points and 696 free throws made, both of which were ranked fifth in their respective categories in college basketball history at the end of the 1957–58 season.

Aleksandr Lenderman

Lenderman plays on the Internet Chess Club under the handle 'manest' and gives free simuls periodically.

Apple QuickTake

For users with an Apple Macintosh running System 7 up to Mac OS 9 with a serial port, the QuickTake 200 can be plugged directly into the computer using the Apple QuickTake camera software.

Arfa Karim

S. Somasegar, the vice president of the Software Development Division, wrote about her in his blog.

Avenir Telecom

They consist in the distribution and sale of a wide variety of communication products, especially mobile phones, activation of service, accessories, answering and fax machines, phone cases, phone chargers, phone soxs, plastic shelves, 3D phone stickers for mobiles and laptops, earkits, hands-free kits, portable headsets, and USB Bluetooth dongles under the OXO name.

BakerBus

In December 2008, following a partnership with Cheshire County Council, BakerBus became one of the first operators to introduce ticket machines with Smartcard readers for the pensioner's free travel scheme.

Blended wing body

-- mention the artist names since Neill Blomkamp is a noteworthy artist e.g. District 9 --> from The Embassy Visual Effects created the photo for the magazine using computer graphics software to depict the future of aviation and air travel.

Campo Bom

Education, health, leisure and quality of life in the city, are references in the state, Has free Internet service available to 100% of the population.

Candiria

Drummer Ken Schalk, bassist Mike MacIvor, and guitarist John Lamacchia have been involved in a free-jazz side project named Ghosts of the Canal, who have thus far released two full-length albums, Sessions from the Flats (1999) and Five Episodes from the Subconscious (2002), as well as two non-album tracks which appeared on the bonus disc of Candiria's The C.O.M.A. Imprint.

Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone

Chabahar free trade–industrial zone was established in 1992 along with the two other free trade zones Qeshm and Kish Island to use global expertise (mostly from South East Asia) as a tool for the development of the country, accelerating the accomplishment of infrastructure, creation of employment, and representation in global markets.

Coal Tiger

When all of the members of A-Next were captured by an evil version of A-Next called The Revengers, Coal Tiger was one of the many heroes who came to free the captured superheroes.

De Lijn

Socialist politician Steve Stevaert of Hasselt implemented a policy allowing registered residents in Flanders aged 65+ to ride anywhere in Flanders free.

EdtFTPj

edtFTPj provides FTP capabilities for popular software packages such as Jalbum and Cyberduck.

Full Pipe

After being discovered by Tom Hall and John Romero at the Russian Game Developer's Conference (KRI-2004), distribution rights were discussed, and a localized version of the game was released (via download only) over Steam in 2006.

Gobe Software

After leaving StyleWare and creating the product later known as ClarisWorks and AppleWorks, Bob Hearn, Scott Holdaway joined Tom Hoke, Scott Lindsey, Bruce Q. Hammond, and Carl Grice who also worked at Apple Computer's Claris division and formed Gobe Software, Inc with the notion to create a next-generation integrated office suite similar to ClarisWorks, but for the BeOS platform.

Grant Park Symphony Orchestra

The Grant Park Symphony Orchestra or simply the Grant Park Orchestra is a publicly sponsored symphony orchestra that provides free performances in the Grant Park Music Festival during the summer months in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois.

Guangzhouwan

During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Kwangchowan was often used as a stopover on an escape route for civilians fleeing Hong Kong and trying to make their way to Free China; Patrick Yu, a prominent trial lawyer, recalled in his memoirs how a Japanese civilian in Hong Kong helped him to escape in this way.

Hans Smidth

In retrospect, his paintings are free of historical or mythical figures, they do not interpret scenes along the lines of the Skagen Painters.

Information wants to be free

In the cyberpunk world of post-singularity transhuman culture by Charles Stross, described in his books like Accelerando and Singularity Sky, the wish of information to be free is a law of nature.

Install Party des Savoie

During a day, people from Pays de Savoie, which is both Savoie and Haute-Savoie departements, is welcomed to get familiar with a new desktop environment, GNU/Linux, renowned for its ability to be reliable and virus-free.

International Radio of Serbia

In November, 1941, during the occupation of Belgrade in the Second World War, a Free Yugoslavia radio station started its work and it broadcast its program until 1945, from the city of Ufa on the Ural River (Russia).

James Ready

His company Montavista Software did pioneering work in adapting the operating system Linux for real-time applications.

Joseph Muscat

As an MEP he supported a reduction in the tax for Satellite television, the right for customers to watch sport events for free, and a number of issues related to environmental protection in Malta.

King Leopold

Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909), second king of the Belgians and founder and owner of the Congo Free State

King-of-the-salmon

Offshore juveniles feed mainly on the hyperiid amphipod Phronima, also taking small numbers of other amphipods, copepods, and free-floating fish scales.

LDRA Testbed

Liverpool Data Research Associates (LDRA) was founded in 1975 by Professor Michael Hennell to commercialize a software test-bed created to perform quality assessments on the mathematical libraries on which his Nuclear physics research at the University of Liverpool depended.

Liverpool Data Research Associates

LDRA was founded in 1975 by Professor Michael Hennell to commercialize a software test-bed created to perform quality assessments on the mathematical libraries on which his Nuclear physics research at the University of Liverpool depended.

Lubocza, Kraków

In 1928 came (for the metropolitan councils of Prince Adam Stefan Sapieha) Norbertine sisters, to give children a free, Catholic education.

Luna de Xelajú

A fairly notorious rendition by amateur musician Jared Smith was made famous by its use in the "software toy" Jared: Butcher of Song.

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft now appears to be positioning a combination of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server, Live Meeting and Sharepoint as its collaboration software of choice.

Murder in the Central Committee

The director's idea was to use the plot as a chronicle of the transition, the period during which Spain moved from Francisco Franco's dictatorship, after his death, until the first free election that put the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in power.

Negative cutting

The negative cutter will translate the Timecode in the EDL list to edge numbers (keykode) using specially designed negative cutting software to find which shot is needed from the rushes negative.

Nextgen

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems develops software and systems to the healthcare industry

OpenVMS

Roger Gourd was the project lead for the Starlet program, with software engineers Dave Cutler (who would later lead development of Microsoft's Windows NT), Dick Hustvedt, and Peter Lippman acting as the technical project leaders, each having responsibility for a different area of the operating system.

Project Management Institute

# User Stories Applied:For Agile Software Development, Mike Cohn ISBN#0321205685

Protect Software

It also offers special distribution solutions for software previews and Film screening that utilize Digital watermarking technology to track content.

Punchbowl.com

Punchbowl.com is a free web-based party planning service and digital greeting cards site based in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Russell Beardsmore

He did not feature in a single competitive game when United won the first Premier League title in 1992–93, and at the end of the season signed for Bournemouth on a free transfer.

Saint Spyridon Church, Trieste

History of the Orthodox community in Trieste begins in 1751 when Empress Maria Theresa allow free practice of religion for Orthodox Christians what prompted immigration of Serbian traders from Herceg Novi, Trebinje and Sarajevo to Trieste.

Sherbert

Sherbert v. Verner, a United States Supreme Court case involving the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution

Sherwood C. Spring

His technical assignments have included software verification at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory and Flight Simulation Laboratory; vehicle and satellite integration at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for STS-5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; Astronaut Office EVA (Extra-vehicular activity) expert; and Space Station construction, EVA maintenance, and design.

Sophie Atkinson

Taking advantage of Canadian Pacific’s free passes to artists and writers, she travelled from British Columbia through Canada to Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal.

Testdroid

Testdroid can use testing frameworks, such as Robotium, cisimple, and uiautomator for native and Selenium for web applications, targeted for mobile application and game developers.

The Felix Culpa

After a long, quiet period, 2009 held the release of a digital EP called SoSo Remission. The release consisted of two re-worked songs and a previously unheard track and was offered up for free; the band also had a link to donate to their paypal if you felt so inclined; it was comparable to the model that Radiohead used for the release of their 7th album, In Rainbows.

TigerDirect

The company was founded as Tiger Software, a publisher of titles for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh in 1989.

Uberdata

Uberdata (also known as Überdata or Uber data) is a ROM editing software designed specifically for On Board Diagnostics (OBD) Honda Engine control units.

When Night Is Falling

When a carnival subsequently comes to town, Camille is confused by her unexpected lesbian attraction to Petra (Rachael Crawford), a sexy, free-spirited circus performer.

Zero day

Zero-day attack, exploitation of unpatched software vulnerabilities

Zeus Technology

In 2004 Zeus Technology released Zeus Traffic Manager (originally 'Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager', ZXTM), based on Zeus' earlier Zeus Load Balancer product, a software load balancer for TCP and UDP based network protocols, and based on a previous Zeus Load Balancer product.

Žurnal24

Žurnal24 is a free, widely circulated daily newspaper published in Ljubljana, Slovenia.


see also

9793 Torvalds

9882 Stallman, an asteroid named after Richard Matthew Stallman, American hacker, founder of the free software movement and the GNU project

Benjamin Mako Hill

Hill has a Master's degree from the MIT Media Lab and is a PhD candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he studies free software communities and business models.

DonationCoder.com

The community develops and finances its own free software, software reviews, podcasts, and a diverse programming school.

Eben Moglen

And: "Note how even the smallest encounter with Free Software can make a man cheerful about the future of our judge" (said after hearing a judge of the Allahabad high court, India speak on the subject).

Fiasco

FIASCO, the name used by very early versions of PSPP, a free software application for analysis of sampled data

Frederick Noronha

His articles on Free Software have been published in Linux Journal and Free Software Magazine.

Free Software and Open Source Symposium

Seneca's Free Software and Open Source Symposium is a yearly event at Seneca College, Canada.

Free software movement

Congressmen Edgar David Villanueva and Jacques Rodrich Ackerman have been instrumental in introducing in Republic of Peru bill 1609 on "Free Software in Public Administration".

Free Software Street

In January 2010, the second edition of the Free Software Conferences was being organized and it was decided to invite the Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman to participate in the planned events, including the naming ceremony of the street.

FSCONS

FSFE and is presenting the winner of the yearly Nordic Free Software Award, given to the person/project that have made a contribution to the advancement of Free Software in the Nordic countries.

Information wants to be free

Other participants in this network include Cypherpunks who educate people to use public-key cryptography to protect the privacy of their messages from corporate or governmental snooping and programmers who write free software and open source code.

J. T. S. Moore

He's known primarily for Revolution OS (2001), a film about the origins of the Free Software and open-source movements.

Joint Test Action Group

Tool vendors sometimes build products around free software like GCC and GDB, with GUI support frequently using Eclipse.

Knopper

Klaus Knopper (born 1968), a German electrical engineer and free software developer

NEODyS

A new web-interface is available running the free software PHP.

Olan

One Letter Aerobatic Notation, OLAN is free software for the design, drawing and viewing of aerobatic sequences; related to the Aresti Catalog Standards document

OpenBTS

It is written in C++ and released as free software under the terms of version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).

Partclone

It is developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan.

Plucker

FBReader - a free software FictionBook ebook reader which can also view Plucker and HTML files.

Redland RDF Application Framework

Redland is a set of free software libraries written in C that provide support for the Resource Description Framework (RDF), created by Dave Beckett (a former resident of Redland, Bristol).

Server Message Block

Andrew Tridgell started the development of Samba, a free-software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol for Unix-like systems, in 1991.

SEUL

SEUL also hosts numerous free software projects and efforts, such as the WorldForge Project's website.

Spip

SPIP, a free software content management system named after the comics character

VLC

VLC media player, a free software cross-platform multimedia player and framework

Webuser

Topics covered include free software; PC security and maintenance; browser add-ons; the best Google tools; and the latest web trends and developments, such as Web 2.0 and social networking.

WildFly

In 1999, Marc Fleury started a free software project named EJB-OSS (stands for Enterprise Java Bean Open Source Software) implementing the EJB API from J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition).