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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A world free from DRM, copyrights and patents
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What would it be like to wake up tomorrow and have the ability to take everything that exists and recreate it as needed absolutely free from royalty or limitation? If people and companies could copy anything in existence, rolling it into whatever product they can design, and then attempt to sell it to others ... what would that world look like?
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Freedom
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"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."
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Linux: From Freedom to Fascism
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It is Debian GNU/Linux, but it is Linux Mint and just plain old Ubuntu. But Canonical says Ubuntu is a Linux-based distro, not a GNU/Linux based distro. It is also PCLinuxOS and not PCGNU/LinuxOS. Redhat calls it Redhat Linux and the list goes on. So what is it GNU/Linux or Linux?
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Bollier's 'Viral Spiral' -- Being Out of Control Is a Good Thing
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"In the beginning, there was Stallman.Richard Stallman, Biblical in appearance with long beard, could be mistaken for a long-ago prophet.Self-righteous, obstreperous and outspoken Stallman and his rebellion against the centralized world of computer software, is the jumping-off point for Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, by David Bollier, one of the co-founders
Read more »Opinion: Absolutism hurting Debian
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The 5.0 ("Lenny") release of Debian Linux has been delayed by a philosophical rift among project developers. In a thoughtful essay entitled "Debian, Philosophy, and People," Linux Foundation Fellow Ted T'so draws examples from literature, religion, and philosophy in renouncing the free software absolutism of Debian's Social Contract.
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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..."
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Debian, Philosophy, and People
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Given the recent brouhaha in Debian, and General Resolution regarding Lenny’s Release policy as it relates to Firmware and Debian’s Social Contract, which has led to the resignation of Manoj Srivastava from the position of Secretary for the Debian Project, I’m reminded of the following passage from Gordon Dickson’s Tactics of Mistakes ...
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Open Source and Anarchism?
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Open Source development is pretty close to Anarchism. Still, we rely on the courts and government to protect Open Source. What if we were to lose that support, what would the Open Source ecosystem look like then?
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Linux Is a Socialist Plot
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“From each according to his ability. To each according to his need.” The above is often given as the socialist credo. However, it is much older than socialism. It actually appears in the Bible in the book of Acts, describing how the early church functioned. It also describes how Linux functions. What they both have in common is that the Bible and Linux are parts of a larger socialist plot.
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The Reasons to Avoid Google Code: A response
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Recently, I came across the interesting but slightly flawed article by Roman (rm). Basically, the article argues that Google Code should be avoided because it requires you to log into a Google account in order to work, the backend itself is non-free, the AGPL is not accepted, and there is a limit on how many projects can be created.
Read more »Linux vs. Binary Blobs, or Ideology vs. Reality by
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Even Linux distributions that contain only open-source applications, it turns out, often depend on proprietary firmware. Without binary blobs, common hardware like Atheros and Broadcom-based wireless cards, for example, would not work with distributions like Ubuntu. In other words, almost all of us, whether we realize it or not, still depend on proprietary software in one way or another.
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Software as a Subversive Activity, Part 3: Talk Like A Linux Geek
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A few terms and names will help you find your way around Linux Land and sound smart. The big one--open source--we introduced in Part One. How do you say it? People who are self-educated and isolated often pronounce words wrong because they've only read them and never heard them. I'll spare you the embarrassment.
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Ideas can be owned
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A lot of the past discussions on this site involved the question of idea ownership, mostly as part of the overall discourse on Free Software. I've usually been the one to state that ideas cannot be owned or at the very least fall under some sort of collective ownership. Today, however, I believe I was wrong.
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Software as a Subversive Activity, Part 2: Open-Source Ticket Splitting
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The votes are in and people want more Linux posts. That's mostly because the first post got linked on first one Linux site, then another, and the ballot box got stuffed.
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