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Canonical requests donations through the Ubuntu site

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Canonical has made changes to the Ubuntu website and now offers a page that asks users to donate funds to contribute financially to the development of the distribution before downloading.

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new contributions-inspired page as seen in The Humble Indie Bundle allows users to indicate their preferences on issues they consider most important to invest , with categories like “ Ubuntu versions for phones and tablets “. In fact, the page includes the ability to send suggestions to Canonical to develop certain areas that may (or may not) be starting to implement in their distribution.

donation page now only accepts payments through PayPal, but as Jono Bacon, who was commissioned to officially announce this change, other models are being investigated for donations. In addition, Bacon explained that all funds “ be used to invest in the Ubuntu project and to continue its development and growth “, adding further that these donations are used to cover possible additional business expenses of Canonical.

As indicated in The H Open, the Ubuntu website already offered the possibility of donations , but this was much less visible section above and now want to try to get more money this way.

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Builder Announces Megabox Megaupload, music distribution site for

Megabox Creator Megaupload announces Megabox, music distribution site for

Recent history of the Internet can be summarized in 2 times: before and after the fall of Megaupload. The front groups that forbidden love between users and audiovisual productions. The subsequent fall is not only the complete building service, but whose structure depended on the Web site.

At this time of darkness in which initiatives are beginning to emerge and has been just the creator Megaupload, Kit Dotcom, which has come to show its own as music is concerned.

Megabox called and is only a proposal and plans was when he was arrested in January. The idea of the project at a glance is simple: allow artists to sell their creations directly to users without going through third parties such as houses or labels.

There are not many details on the site in question but the Dotcom has said that 90% of the revenues of content creators will directly , looking to change the business model of music (at least to sell “alternative”).

The news is not new (has been around officially since the end of June) so it is more likely not see in the remainder of the year but in 2013 and when he mentioned for his Twitter account that is involved in all activities of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an organization that aims to help those who lost the data stored on servers Megaupload.

In this future, it is likely that the man beaten clean your name (at After all had fewer fights with Julio Assange Wikileaks) but will not do much without help and there would the backing of bands like Radiohead who have managed to dent the market with its proposals for distributing music.

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“Dear Microsoft: fsf.org not a gambling site”

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Last week leaders of the Free Software Foundation realized that Microsoft had blocked the web donate.fsf.org , that the body uses for online donations. Corporate systems that made use of the Microsoft security programs thus preventing access to this site, as this system was considered an online gambling site.

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The FSF has reacted and as indicated on its official blog have sent a request to Microsoft to delete the label of “Game” (gambling) with which it is currently rated Web grants and pass to qualify it with the label “Nonprofit” used for other websites of NGOs.

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the FSF can not explain the error, and comment that “ will avoid for the time attributed this error to malice and wait for the correctness “. Of course, the situation is unique, especially because as they continue to comment on this blog, “ if the reputation of the Microsoft database can not tell the difference between a site for online game and audited and registered NGOs independently, public interest and was founded 30 years ago, it is clear that is causing more harm than good things to you and your business “.

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Turns any WordPress site into a BitTorrent tracker

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A new plugin called WP-Trader and has appeared recently for WordPress allows anyone implement a fully functional BitTorrent tracker in a few minutes, whether used as a private tracker if opens to the public.

Although obviously the possibilities are not those of a BitTorrent tracker native with this plugin you can create a small tracker that serves our purposes and also has a number of interesting features for administrators of such systems .

plugin, say the authors, is still in beta, but every week new features are added, and as we mentioned it is possible to launch a public tracker or do the same with a private tracker that has upload and download ratios and impose certain waiting times for users with PHP 5.x .

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Turns any WordPress site into a BitTorrent tracker

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