Before he's even sworn in, Barack Obama enters office with the tag, "open source president," thanks to a CNN commentator. Can he bring more citizen involvement to government? His transition team already is laying the groundwork, and other projects are trying to do the same
Read more »By the People: Citizen Involvement the Open Source Way
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Way of Life
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People are wrong when they say GNU (FSF) is just a collection of free softwares, GNU is a way of life. This way of life transcends itself from software profession into one’s personal and social life too.
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Giving it Away for Free
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I was talking with a pal of mine yesterday out back in his workshop. He was making a beautiful piece of furniture and I was going on about the world which, of course, eventually led to a discussion of computer operating systems, open source, that kind of thing.
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Anonymity on the Internet is not going away.
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"...Anonymity is a defense against the tyranny of the majority. There are many, many valid uses of anonymity tools, such as Tor. The belief that anonymous tools exist only for the edges of societies is narrow-minded. The tools exist and are used by all. Much like the Internet, the tools can be used for good or bad.
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One reason why Linux fits in the real world better
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For the last month, every time insert one of the four pieces of 512mb ram, Windows (Vista and XP) get a blue screen of death on start up. But, just out of interest, I decided to see if the problem also persists with OpenSuse Linux. So I booted up the system and selected OpenSuse. OpenSuse started up (and worked) like a charm, like there was nothing wrong.
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Open source - it's all about choice
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There have always been people in society who help others just because they can - the cub scout leader, the charity volunteer, the community clean up group, they all contribute to making the world a better place.
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Slavish reporters join Microsoft in cloud cuckoo land
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John Naughton rips into the sycophantic nature of tech journolism when it comes to Microsoft.
" Microsoft is such a powerful company that it never seems to occur to reporters that its leaders might be fantasising. It's the aphrodisiac effect again....But Microsoft has become an embarrassing shadow of its former self."
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Evening with Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
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"...I have spent an interesting afternoon in Ritz Carlton, Millenia here in Singapore to listen to a talk by Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. Perhaps, the picture on the left speaks a thousand words about how the evening transpired, since the discussion revolves around censorship, creative commons and free software movement..."
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Skype built for censorship and surveillance
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RMS: « Skype software in China is built for censorship and surveillance.
Read more »The Political Economy of Peer Production
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"...In this article, Michel Bauwens discusses an emerging human social dynamic called: peer to peer (P2P).
Read more »Listen To Your Users
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I would rather write something about the idea of comparing Linux to Windows or MacOS. According to Ryan, such comparisons are pointless. He tried to prove this, but I cannot agree with him in this area, so I decided to write this rebuttal.
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Intel Buys British Linux Developer Opened Hand
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Intel has snapped up British Linux house Opened Hand in another sign of the growing interest in the use of the operating system on mobile devices.
Last month, research from ABI Research said that Linux was set to take the lion's share of the market for the so-called mobile internet devices, those bigger than a cell phone but smaller than a laptop.
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The psychology behind open source and gaming
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One of the things that drive success in online games such as World of Warcraft is the community and ecosystem that surround the game itself. This is much akin to open source where projects grow and become successful as individuals become part of the whole.
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'Editions' of Ubuntu - Why?
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As you know, I run Ubuntu.
As you also (probably) know, I’m a student, and a Christian.
So you might think that it would make sense for me to be running edubuntu (Ubuntu for students) or Ubuntu Christian Edition (Ubuntu for Christians.)
But I don’t.
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Toward a free web
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The web is no longer just a collection of sites one can visit with a browser. It’s increasingly a rich set of programming interfaces upon which applications can be built. This, at a technological level, is very good news. Interfaces make possible a greater variety of applications. This is an old idea for software in general, but a relatively new trend on the web.
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