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The Importance of an Open Internet

http://www.linux.com

Being against net neutrality is one of those arguments that on first glance seems reasonable. The power company, after all, charges us more as we consume more electricity--why shouldn't Internet carriers be allowed to charge based on data load and regulate traffic accordingly?

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FSF Hostility/Disagreement from a Libertarian, TechDirt, and Microsoft General Counsel

http://boycottnovell.com

This post addresses common new criticisms of the FSF and/or its philosophy

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Failure as a springboard to success

http://blogs.zdnet.com

Communities are fundamentally networks of people; people with emotions, passions and insecurities. When we connect these people together, particularly in an online environment, the core of the human condition is laid bare.

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GNU Four Freedoms Translated for Users

http://www.thelinuxlink.net

I was reading an article about Freesoftware adoption and it noted that the freedoms afforded by the GNU Gpl were written largely for developers not end users. So I figured I would take a shot at positing the four freedoms to general users.

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“Open Core” Is the New Shareware

http://ebb.org

Ultimately, “Open Core” is a glorified shareware situation. As a user, you get some subset of functionality, and may even get the four freedoms with regard to that subset. But, when you want the “good stuff”, you've got to take a proprietary license. And, this is true whether the Core is GPL'd or permissively licensed.

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What if buying a new car were like using nonfree software?

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What if buying a new car were like using nonfree software? While the following example may seem a little far-fetched, it is a pretty good analogy to understand the importance of user freedoms in software.

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Free on free > proprietary on free > free on proprietary > proprietary on proprietary

http://www.fsdaily.com

Okay so I think we can all agree that proprietary software shouldn't be promoted by the FOSS community. It also seems to be acceptable to promote the use of free software applications on proprietary OSes. So why is there a problem with promoting the use of proprietary applications on free OSes?

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Richard Stallman Speaks

http://www.daniweb.com

I had the honor and pleasure of speaking to Richard Stallman a few days ago while he was in New Zealand on a speaking tour. I had been in an email conversation with him over several days asking about which software programs he uses and I finally connected with him for some clarification and more details.

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Open Source vs Free Software - a Philosophical discussion

http://crankyoldnutcase.blogspot.com

Everyone is aware of the huge fuss going on at present. What we have appears to be a conflict between two philosophical viewpoints, fueled by claims that one community is under attack by the other community. This is wrong, and here's why:

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Whats wrong with the world? I give up!

https://hackbloc.org

"There is a website that feeds CCTV to viewers who compete on who can report the most crime. It is called Internet eyes.

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Free as in Speech vs. Free as in Beer, Redux

http://www.serverwatch.com

"Well it's bound to be popular isn't it?" you'll hear the non-tech savvy say. "Everyone loves something that's free."

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Richard Stallman on Radio New Zealand

http://lianza2009.wordpress.com

"Did you know that Richard Stallman was interviewed by Kim Hill on Saturday? I missed it but ended up listening to the podcast yesterday.

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Lest CodePlex perplex - by Richard M. Stallman

http://www.fsf.org

"...The first thing we see is that the organization ducks the issue of users' freedom; it uses the term "open source" and does not speak of "free software". These two terms stand for different philosophies which are based on different values: free software's values are freedom and social solidarity, whereas open source cites only practical convenience values such as powerful, reliable software..."

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Trisquel on Sugar

http://trisquel.info

"...The project was presented during the Software Freedom Day 09 event organized by the Free Software Foundation. Briefly introduced by Walter Bender, founder of SugarLabs, our Sugar+Trisquel solution provides a way to run this excelent educational software in a fully free system. Trisquel 3.0 was also featured in the FSF event, running on the computers available for the public on site..."

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Created by can.axis 12 years 33 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 33 weeks ago
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Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems

http://www.gnu.org

"We're often asked why we don't endorse a particular system—usually a popular GNU/Linux distribution. The short answer to that question is that they don't follow the free system distribution guidelines. But since it isn't always easy to see how a particular system fails to follow the guidelines, we still get these questions.

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