Software Cooperative News

Our co-op registers domain names for others. Like most registrars, we now cannot register Chinese (.cn) domains. There’s a bit of background discussion on WebmasterWorld.
While it’s always disappointing to offer fewer services, I don’t think we’ve ever registered a .cn domain and especially not for anyone in China. Most of the .cn [...]

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While I was under snow last week, the world saw a flurry of Koha company news. We found out that PTFS is to acquire LibLime and ByWater Solutions and BibLibre are partnering for the U.S. With the past ByWater Solutions and PTFS, Inc. partnering, it seems like four of the younger Koha companies (established 2005, [...]

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It’s nice to see that Emacs isn’t being outdone since Thunderbird 3 Introduced Reply-To List: Alok G. Singh got in touch and pointed me at Gnus’s support for List-* headers. I’ve updated my page of email clients that support mailing lists.

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A clear announcement went out in plenty of time and the meeting agenda is already posted for Wednesday’s SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2100 UTC (an hour later than recently).
As I write this, it’s a pretty lean meeting, though I guess that’s understandable when the run-up included holidays for most people.
What do [...]

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VLC is free and open source portable media player software that supports a lot of formats and inputs and can also convert and stream. I think it’s been pretty useful for users who didn’t like MPlayer for whatever reason.
Nicole Engard writes that VLC for Mac has no more developers. I don’t like or [...]

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