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PLplot is a cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots that has been in continuous development since its inception 17 years ago. On May 23, 2009 the PLplot developers quietly celebrated our ten thousandth commit since our initial software repository was populated back in May 1992.

Version 5.9.2 of PLplot has been released. PLplot is a cross-platform, scientific graphics plotting library.

Version 1.2.0 of yPlot has been released. This is a scientific graphics plotting package implemented as a Yorick interface to PLplot.

FreeEOS is a software library for calculating an equation of state for conditions in stellar interiors.

libLASi is a library originally written by Larry Siden that provides a C++ stream output interface ( with operator << ) for creating Postscript documents that can contain characters from any of the scripts and symbol blocks supported in Unicode and by Owen Taylor's Pango layout engine.

The federal government doesn't seem to have too much time for what some call "social media" - Facebook, MySpace, blogs and so on. Access to many such sites is restricted in many government offices, presumably because they are seen as time-wasting devices for the office slacker.

[Interesting article that talks about copyright law and the RIAA in Canada - Scott]

Illegal downloaders of music and movies are at the forefront of technology—and it's time the industries caught up.

Ottawa copyright circles are buzzing with hints that the government is preparing its new revised copyright bill, and will be tabling it soon, perhaps as early as next week. And the buzz is that the new law will basically be a copy of the controversial U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [Also see: Michael Geist's blog: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2431/125/ - Barbara]

The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) had no problem going against the grain when it decided to forgo the widely used Microsoft Office suite of business applications. Instead, it chose to replace its aging WordPerfect installations with OpenOffice.org – for free.

[Some mistakes in FUD, but essentially a good news story - Barbara]

If, as the Apple iPhone has showed, one can be swept up in a mania by chic items, then you can put the iPhone behind you and jump to the Next Big Thing. Now.

Version 1.4.0 of the Linux Brochure Project (LBP) has been released. LBP is a GPL'd Linux advocacy and publicity project which documents key Linux information in a standard-sized brochure . A Spanish translation has been added for this release. French and Italian translations are also available.

Version 1.3.0 of the Linux Brochure Project (LBP) has been released. LBP is a GPL'd Linux advocacy and publicity project which documents key Linux information in a standard-sized brochure .