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Funambol's CEO sees AGPL as essential for FOSS in cloud computing's future

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"The future of software is in cloud computing," says Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol, a company that provides mobile services. And if free and open source software (FOSS) is going to survive in that emerging market, he says, then the community needs to adjust by promoting greater use of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), a license specifically crafted for software as a service.

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purple-url-handler

purple-url-handler(1)						   User Commands					     purple-url-handler(1)

NAME

       purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple

SYNOPSIS

       purple-url-handler [-URL]

DESCRIPTION

       Python script to handle URL with purple.

OPTIONS

       Usage: purple-url-handler URL

       Example:

	 purple-url-handler "xmpp:romeo@montague.net?message"

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-im-client	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-send-async(1), attributes(5)

       purple-url-handler Manual, http://pidgin.im/

NOTES

       Updated by Lei Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007.

SunOS 5.11							    02 Apr 2008 					     purple-url-handler(1)