"...The following text has been crossposted from Stephen Downes: The Future of Education, liveblogged notes taken at the conference by Stephen Downes at the First International Conference Free Knowledge, Free Technology - Education for a free information society [...] The conference deals first with the concept of public goods and public education, and their relationship with Freedom.
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Activism and technology collide: Professor’s book documents anti-corporate globalization movement
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"...Juris’ book provides an ethnographic study of anti-corporate globalization movements [...] «Because they use tools such as email lists, Web pages and free software to organize actions, share information, and coordinate at a distance, anti-corporate globalization networks have become models for emerging forms of directly democratic politics,» Juris says.
Read more »5 simple reasons to choose Linux over Vista
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Without getting into much details, we shall today try and see 5 major reasons why people who prefer Linux over Windows Vista do so.
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Open source leadership model
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The basic idea behind open source, a fledging model employed in the software industry, is very simple : When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves.
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The Importance of Purity on the Linux Desktop
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Does it really matter if an open source desktop includes closed source code? To some in the Linux community, yes, but to others, it's not something to stress about. "Hey, stop talking like this is a great and epic struggle," wrote loganrapp on Slashdot. "Zimbabwe is a great struggle. We're just talking about computer operating systems."
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Because the simple things in life are often the best.
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The title of this article "Because the simple things in life are often the best." comes from a Kellogs cornflakes commercial I used to watch in Australia. However it doesn't just apply to cornflakes. It applies to all parts of our lives. It is also part of the philosophy of the *nix crowd.
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A socialist’s view of Ubuntu: love it or leave it?
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A few months back I posted an article reviewing Ubuntu 8.04, “Hardy Heron.” In the comments section, one person brought up a good point: how can I, as a socialist, support Ubuntu? I’ve been meaning to write an article about this since then.
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General Policy And Mission Statements For "The Linux And Unix Menagerie" Web Log.
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Probably an extremely boring statement of our blog's mission and various in-place policies ;)
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Dead tree version of Against Monopoly is Out
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The landmark economic book that argue against "intellectual property" AKA intellectual monopoly is now available in print form. The economists David K. Levine and Michele Boldrin challenges conventional wisdom about patent and copyright and argue that we are better off without them. Of course, this book wouldn't be complete without praise of free software. :)
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Toward an Open Source Society
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One of the oldest arguments against anarchism is that it is impractical, that without central authority to keep the peons in line any large project will dissolve into chaos and disorder. Yet the open source software movement provides modern day proof that anarchism works, even when not conducted by anarchists.
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Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open source
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Enterprises are not getting the full benefits of open source. Many are looking for support, and are concerned about lack of support, but I wonder sometimes what they mean by support.
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Closed Source vs. Open Source in Desktop Linux
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At what point do we accept that – whether we like it or not – closed source applications will eventually have to be let in to this otherwise "open" world? After all, this has already been happening for years, despite the Linux purists kicking and screaming the entire time.
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Fedora, Slackware, Debian... and Philosophy
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I have been quiet about Linux this week because I have been busy trying several new versions. In the process, I have learned quite a bit more, and started to think about the philosophy behind Linux, operating system choices, and Free / Open Source software in general.
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Free Software: "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" - By Nadav Har'El, June 1, 2001
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"...In this essay I want to lay out the benefits of free software to our society, as I see them. I take the slogan of the French Revolution, "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité", and show how each of these ideals (and not just the often-mentioned Liberty) is an important part of the free software movement..."
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Intellectual freedom
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"Intellectual freedom is a human right, as defined by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [...] These entities include, among others [...] the Free Software Movement."
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