Sometimes our best intentions give way to our worst, for a wide variety of reasons. This is as true of corporate amalgamations of individuals as it is of those individuals on their own, and it's as true for open-source companies as it is for proprietary companies.
Read more »Protecting community from corporate
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The Free Beer Economy
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Why is FREE! the world's best-selling noun, verb, adjective and adverb, yet so hard to credit as a foundation for business in the Internet Age? And what will happen when business folk finally grok the abundant opportunities that FREE! provides?
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The Good, The Bad And The Open
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A quote attributed to various sources goes as follows: "Technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral." It takes the shape you give to it, but it will always take one shape or another. The same could be said of open source, and ought to be.
Read more »Freedom vs. Control
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The lack of Linux tools which can modify enterprise wide linux deployments is helping to slow it's adoption. Linux philosophy is based around freedom from the control. The control is in the hands of the user and the enterprise administer is left out in the cold.
Read more »Why the Philosophies of Nietzsche and Rand Are Poison To Geeks
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With a title like that, I hope you're not expecting this post to be light reading. I'm also blindly assuming that you have at least a passing familiarity with the concepts of Objectivism and the Übermensch. If you aren't familiar with these concepts, you can skip this. I envy your bliss.
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Mr. Stallman's Internet: How RMS May Be Looking The Wrong Way At The Internet
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Once more unto the breach my friends, Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has laid another profound thought process out there for us to digest. This man is definitely deserves everyone's respect. Whether you agree with him or not, he has given the whole planet gifts that it does not even realize for the most part.
Read more »Response to "Why Games are NOT the Key to Linux Adoption"
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A response to Jon Peck's article "Why Games are NOT the Key to Linux Adoption", pointing out the flaws in his arguments.
Read more »Linux For Anarchists
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There is a disturbing lack of resistance to Microsoft's market hegemony among anarchists and activists today. It is counter-revolutionary to design revolutionary fliers on a computer running Windows XP, displaying protest pictures on a computer running Windows XP is not a statement of protest, and using Microsoft software to coordinate anti-capitalist action is not anti-capitalist.
Read more »Music DRM
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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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Linux is a Monkey Wrench?
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Someone commented on one of my posts the other day, stating that Linux is a tool and not a religion. Can this be true? I would hate to think that for the past 15 years that I've invested in Linux, it would turn out that Linux is merely a tool, a--dare I say it--a monkey wrench? Say it ain't so.
Read more »A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
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"This was originally posted 13 years ago today by John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Money is Not Wealth
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We hear it so often it becomes part of the overall background noise-- silly propaganda about how FOSS is anti-capitalist and un-American because it can't be locked up and exploited. I picture people who look like Mr. Burns on the Simpsons cackling, rubbing their hands, and gloating over their ill-gotten gains. They must be ill-gotten because it's more fun that way. "Mine! All mine!
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Action research: mapping the nexus of research and political action
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"...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 »Episode 0x05: Eben Moglen on Origins of Copyright and Patents
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"...In the speech, Eben discusses in depth the origins of the copyright and patent system, and how Free Software interacts with that history..."
Read more »Corporations are idiots!!!
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Everybody has his/her own reason for using Free Software. Unfortunately, my favorite reason seems to be among the most “FUDed” by proprietary software companies. (Behind “Lowering the TCO”) I personally believe the most important aspect of Free Software is the advancement of society.
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