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        <title>5 alternatives to RainLoop that offer similar webmail functionality</title>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Webmail clients today not only provide access to your emails from anywhere but also integrate with calendars, contacts, and offer powerful search and encryption features.]]></description>
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        <title>How is free software different from open-source software</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[While there are similarities between free software and open-source software, they are based on different philosophies and have different goals.]]></description>
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        <title>Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The release of a research paper and its aftermath has cause a stir in the linux kennel developer circles with ban being tooled as a redress action. Greg Kroah-Hartman has banned the University of Minnesota from contributing to the Linux Kernel and gone to a great deal of effort to revert and re-evaluate 190 patches [&#8230;]]]></description>
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        <title>Open Usage Commons opposed</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[When trademarks are properly managed, project maintainers can define their identity, provide assurances to downstream users of the quality of their offering, and give others in the community certainty about the free and fair use of the brand.]]></description>
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        <title>Purism and a Librem life</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 01:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Purism is the outcome of an increasing concern about the exploitative direction of the tech industry; rising out of this concern through crowdfunding, Purism was launched. Purism&#8217;s horn is of being a company dedicated to freedom, privacy, and security. Yeah well, prove it, we&#8217;ve heard of &#8220;Do no evil&#8221; before. The company says it is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 22:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Chromium OS is a free and open-source operating system developed for running web applications and browsing the internet. It is the open-source version of Chrome OS, a Linux-based operating system created by Google. Chromium OS is based on the Linux kernel and utilizes the Chromium web browser as its primary user interface. The operating system [&#8230;]]]></description>
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        <title>Ontotext open source GraphDB</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Ontotext&#8217;s GraphDB is a database for managing semantic information, and the latest release, GraphDB 9.0, aims to make it easier for developers to create and operate knowledge graphs by opening multiple integration extension points. A new version of Ontotext GraphDB that&#8217;s open source and comes with a range of new plugins is released. GraphDB Workbench, which give [&#8230;]]]></description>
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        <title>Netflix opens Metaflow</title>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Netflix has open sourced Metaflow, which the developers describe as a human-centric framework for data science. The framework has been used internally at Netflix for the last two years to build and manage hundreds of data-science projects. Metaflow is a Python library that provides a unified API to the infrastructure stack that is required to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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        <title>PayPal makes Hera Open Source</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[PayPal has made HERA, its High Efficiency Reliable Access to data stores, open source. Hera is a data access gateway that PayPal uses to scale database access for hundreds of billions of SQL queries per day. Hera is made up of a language-specific Hera client library that resides on each application host and allows applications [&#8230;]]]></description>
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        <title>Google unveils Open Source Cryptographic Tool</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 07:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Google has made available an open-source cryptographic tool called Private Join and Compute. The tool uses secure multi-party computation (MPC) to augment the core PSI protocol. More than 70 million records were stolen or leaked from poorly configured databases last year, making privacy a top concern. That’s no doubt one motivation behind Google’s open-sourcing of Private [&#8230;]]]></description>
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        <title>Microsoft reclassifies CERN, CERN goes Open Source</title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2019 06:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN, is stopping using Microsoft products in favor of open-source. The&#160;decision has been taken following big increases in license fees by Microsoft. The problem has arisen because Microsoft has reclassified CERN, no longer giving it the status as academic institution. This changed the cost of software licenses, increasing it [&#8230;]]]></description>
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        <title>Facial swapping software now open-source</title>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabby]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 11:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Developed by experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NVIDIA, vid2vid technology allows anybody to swap the surface images of objects in a video...]]></description>
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        <title>Why every developer must learn to work with Linux, Git and Bash</title>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabby]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2018 07:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[As technology infrastructure shifts ever more in the direction of open source, there is rapidly growing need for open source skills. Use of open source software leads to better and faster development, and wider collaboration, and open source skills are a very valuable form of currency in the job market. That’s why it’s worth checking [&#8230;]]]></description>
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        <title>Care about Security: Try F-Droid App Store</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[A replacement for Google Play, F-Droid offers Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) apps without all those hidden trackers. F-Droid only allows apps that include their source-code and whose licenses require anyone who modifies them to also include the source. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabby]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Sailfish OS (also styled as SailfishOS or abbreviated to SFOS) is a mobile operating system combining the Linux kernel for a particular hardware platform use, the open-source Mer core middleware, a proprietary UI contributed by Jolla, and other third-party components.]]></description>
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