"...Arturo di Corinto, a sharp and ebullient Italian media activist, writer and film-maker, set out a bold vision of free software as a common resource: ‘Thanks to its characteristics, the free software is a distributed property that is capable of evolving into a common good’, he declared..."
Read more »The commons, the state and transformative politics
http://www.redpepper.org.uk –
In Responce to: Ten Ways to Make More Humane Open Source Software...
http://www.interfce.com –
"...Free software is a political movement that is not only about producing software that’s source code is ‘open’, but it’s vision is a free society & free software. The term OSS gives too much emphasis to the source code being available, and not enough emphasis to freedom.
Read more »Ten Ways to Make More Humane Open Source Software
http://humanized.com –
A lot of bandwidth has been wasted arguing over the lack of usability in open-source software/free software (henceforth “OSS”). The debate continues at this moment on blogs, forums, and Slashdot comment threads.
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Screening of Good Copy Bad Copy with Co-Director + MPAA Q&A Session
http://www.freeculturenyu.org –
"In cooperation with Digital Freedom, Free Culture @ NYU will be hosting the first American a screening of the 2007 film Good Copy Bad Copy. The documentary highlights the current state of copyright and culture, and features prominent copyright players such as Girl Talk, Lawrence Lessig, Renaldo Lemos, and Dan Glickman..."
Read more »Free Culture Advanced
http://mako.cc –
"Not only is the free software movement a source of software and licenses, it is also a source of inspiration. In particular, free software has been cited by many in the nascent free culture movement as an explicit source of inspiration and point of departure.
Read more »Putting your privacy and autonomy at risk
http://www.wired.com –
RMS: «New technologies put your privacy and autonomy at risk even inside your skull.» -- via http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-jan-apr.html#09%20April%202008%20%...
Read more »Distinction between the Free Software and Open Source movements
http://www.gnu.org –
RMS: «...Their stated definition for the term “open source” is somewhat broader than free software, and thus includes my work. But describing the GNU GPL as an “open source license,” as Microsoft did, is more than half misleading. The GNU GPL embodies the firm philosophy of the free software movement; it doesn't come from the open source movement.
Read more »Think Global, Act Local
http://bendrath.blogspot.com –
"...My main point was: I really enjoyed being involved in global and European political processes and activities like the World Summit on the Information Society or European Digital Rights for the last four years, but it is such a difference between having to rely on email lists most of the time and working with real people most of the time."
Read more »Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks about One Web Day.
http://www.millsworks.net –
"Berners-Lee is a strong advocate for Net Neutrality and here he speaks very eloquently about the net freedoms we currently enjoy and must work to preserve and never take for granted..."
Read more »Open Source Revolution: How Open Source Can Change Things
http://webguy.antaramedia.com –
"Consider this: in just a few short years, the open-source
encyclopedia Wikipedia has made closed-source encyclopedias obsolete —
both the hard-bound kind and the CD-ROM or commercial online kind.
Goodbye World Book and Brittanica...
On valuing freedom more than cushy jail cells
http://www.linuxjournal.com –
The problem isn't just silos and walled gardens — our names for choiceless dependency on one company's goods and services. The problem is the defaulted belief system that gives us silos and walled gardens in the first place.
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Towards a "World Intellectual Wealth Organisation"
http://www.france.fsfeurope.org –
"...We need a World Intellectual Wealth Organisation, dedicated to the research and promotion of novel and imaginative ways to encourage the production and dissemination of knowledge..."
Read more »The Free Software Definition
http://www.gnu.org –
"We maintain this free software definition to show clearly what must be true about a particular software program for it to be considered free software..."
Read more »Celebrating Software Freedom Day: Recently Liberated AI Java Source Code
http://www.movingtofreedom.org –
"An objection I've had to many programming books and web sites is that they don't make sample code available under a free software license. This is within the rights of the author, of course, but it seems counter to the spirit of teaching and sharing knowledge to restrict the use of example code.
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Eben Moglen on Free Software and Social Justice
http://www.geof.net –
"...We are moving to a world in which in the twenty-first century the most important activities that produce occur not in factories, and not by individual initiative, but in communities held together by software[...]Tell people it’s free as in freedom. Tell them that if you don’t tell them anything else. Because they need to know..."
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