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WordPress has fixed a cross-site scripting flaw in its blogging software. Version 2.6.5 also addresses three unrelated performance and stability bugs with the open source package.

OStatic: "Muxtape, as you may know, is a music sharing and mixing site that's apparently been shut down by the RIAA.

Now there's Opentape, which bills itself as "a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web." But is it?"

IT Wire: "I assisted a company today with a spectacular Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) crash.

The experience showed some folly in the oft-claimed mantra that Windows-based applications are graphical and friendly.

In fact, here’s a free Linux-friendly open source package called Afresco which makes a better SharePoint than SharePoint."

“For example, in a desktop environment in which users just need a simple web interface, basic word processing and a spreadsheet, an open source package such as Ubuntu running OpenOffice would be perfect.

These users don’t need the bells and whistles of a Microsoft Office.”

LyX is a free and open source package which puts a user-friendly skin over LaTeX such that the user can see an interface much like MS Word or OpenOffice which is based on LaTeX.

The binaries are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac.