Just yesterday I bought my first non-DRM'd songs (The Last Vegas, in keeping with my 'I only listen to things from Guitar Hero' theme).
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Free vs Open Source software
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I attended ProFOSS yesterday, an Event in Brussels. It was very interesting for the most part, but I saw to common mistakes. People tend to intermix concepts, in this case Free and Open Source software used as synonyms. They are not and confusing the two clouds any thought you have on the license usage behind them.
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From Cloud Computing to Freedom-based Utility Computing
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"Cloud Computing risks undoing the gains of the free software movement in ‘owning and controlling our own code‘. Thomas Lord examines the potential for achieving software and user freedom in the world of ‘cloud computing’ (a concept he rejects, preferring ‘utility computing’, see below).
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In Xinjiang, the Internet is Guilty Until Proven Innocent
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We are witnessing the birth of a new kind of internet censorship in the Xinjiang province of Western China: the kind where a web site must be specifically allowed, instead of specifically disallowed.
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Why public education must use public software
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Public education ideally provides a comprehensive education for every citizen as one of the greatest accomplishments of worldwide civil governments. Without a successful public education system, the well-being of society is threatened.
Read more »What is best for Free Software Advancement
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Does the opensource movement or The Free Software movement best improve the situation for FLOSS. please read and participate in the discussion...
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http://nickyt.org –
"So I am now an official donor to the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. These are two organizations that I feel strongly about, and that I just had to become a member of and support their causes [...] I just wanted to share my feelings on that."
Read more »Apple still sucks
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"... But developers, too, are irked by Apple's secrecy and limits on the kind of programs they can design. An unusually restrictive agreement they must sign keeps them from comparing notes even with fellow programmers."
Read more »Skype built for censorship and surveillance
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RMS: « Skype software in China is built for censorship and surveillance.
Read more »A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
http://twofourtech.com –
"This was originally posted 13 years ago today by John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Read more »Bug 448688: Package description of Kernel says Linux is the core of the "Linux OS"
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"The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc."
Read more »Creating FOSS Allies Through Volunteerism
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We know that free and open source software (FOSS) is bigger than the code. It’s a powerful movement, with the potential to change the world in profound ways. Cooperation. Collaboration. The best minds
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Smalltalk, the Free Software spirit in action
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"In this article, I explain how Smalltalk is since 30 years a practical social implementation of the freedom #3 and #4 of the Free Software philosophy: freedom to study, to modify and to redistribute a software..."
Read more »Action research: mapping the nexus of research and political action
http://www.interfacejournal.net –
"...The first examples of online creation communities are development communities, that is communities developed around free software programming, such as the communities around Apache, GNU and Linux, Debian or Drupal.
Read more »What does the Free Software Movement have to do with Anarchism?
http://freeofstate.org –
«...The Free Software movement is an example of an emergent movement with anarchist characteristics.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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