This is a response to A balance of freedoms.
"Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn." - RMS
I think you are confused about how capability, authority and freedom are connected when we refer to freedom. When you accept Skype's "use terms of conditions", you don't gain any freedom. What you do gain is restricted authority to use the capabilities found in the Skype system.
There are only 2 weeks left in the first round of the "Ideas for Change in America" competition, and the "Idea for Change: Support the Free Software Movement" is in 9th place in the Technology Policy category.
The top 3 rated ideas for each category will make it to the second round, which will be held in early January... We need 135 votes to move up to third place in Technology Policy.
I was reading this comment on a story submitted here on FSDaily and started thinking that life's all about balancing freedoms.
I have been using FS Daily for so long and I really think it is great for the community and I do use it almost every day. I hope someone will seriously look into it and fix these fundamental issues that makes using it such a pain currently.
I wanted to write about it for so long, but could not wait any longer.
Pandora FMS is a monitoring software. It watches your systems and
applications, and allows you to know the status of any element of those
systems (hardware, software, sensors, network equipment, etc).
Development of stable version 2.0 of Pandora FMS is over. After a long
testing period, Pandora FMS team has finished development for this
Techie-guru and ex-editor friend Vickram Crishna announced in cyberspace that Giovanni Maruzzelli would be visiting India. After a few emails were exchanged, he added Goa to his route.
In the 1990s, the European Patent Office created a bizarre interpretation whereby "as such" is a reference to "as programs for computers", and thus the exclusion can be completely ignored if the patent application uses a name other than "programs for computers" for the claimed idea.
This event aims at expand the concept of knowledge freedom, strengthening the software freedom movements by enlisting the support from wider sections, expanding the support base to Public Domain Software, Familiarise the PSUs, Industries and Institutions with free software, empowerment of indigenous technology and local community etc..View for more info
We've just implemented a new feature that allows you to save stories for future reference. This makes it easier to find those stories you really wanted to bookmark for later while still allowing you to vote up stories you want to support or draw attention to.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Meet the people behind the Open Source Initiative (video)
Without being prompted for anything other than an introduction, at least two Open Source Initiative board members expressed their wish that the OSI should become a membership-based organization.
Here's the latest from Roy Schestowitz of BoycottNovell.com:
Novell’s de Icaza: The Man Who Gives GNU/Linux to Microsoft
I've been following this story for a while now. I'm not the first to compare Novell to SCO. It seems fair to compare them without being hyperbolic.
Finally, a free software for organizing betting games that rocks! It's name is zock!
It is a "betting office" targeted at cliques of friends or co-workers which would like to organize a betting game for a sport event.
Bordeaux 1.4 was released today and its a significant upgrade over the prior 1.2 release, version 1.4 comes with support for Microsoft Office 2003, Visio 2003 and Project 2003. Version 1.4 has improved Office 2000 menu support and Cellar support fixes.
I am writing a series of posts that address various myths and misconceptions about free software. In this first post, I address the misconception that users have no need for freedom 1 as they lack the capability to practise this freedom.
