"...In the early computer lab at MIT where "computer hacking" first began, all software was free. There was a drawer next to the console where all computer programs were deposited. Anyone working on the computer could take those programs out of the drawer, copy them, run them, modify them and put their version back in the drawer so that anyone else could do the same things. That system of free sharing and collaboration worked extremely well in an academic environment and was the default model for early computer science..."

"Rob Myers is an artist, hacker and free culture activist who has been remixing images and coding up art for more than fifteen years. He held the first solo all-copyleft-licensed art show, has been involved with community projects such as Free Culture UK and Remix Reading, and has advised on corporate projects such as 'Where Are The Joneses?' and '4Laughs.'..."

"Decoding Liberation is a new book that is creating a lot of buzz in different mailing lists. It is written by Samir Chopra and Scott D. Dexter, both of the City University of New York. Because of the obligatory huge price tag on academic books, it has generated a huge discussion about the need to ‘open source’ the book itself..."

"...SELF News is a monthly newsletter about the SELF Project and related issues. SELF aims to be the central platform with high quality educational and training materials about Free Software and Open Standards. It is based on world-class Free Software technologies that permit both reading and publishing free materials, and is driven by a worldwide community..."

http://selfproject.eu/

"This is the original announcement of the GNU Project, written by Richard Stallman in 1983..."

"The latest edition of our quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics assesses for the first time TVs and the rapidly growing games consoles market. Nintendo completely fails to show any environmental credentials and Microsoft and Philips do little better..."

“With the laptop we can say that our school is really elevated because the children are really learning more... They see themselves discovering things that they have never been doing before.” — Mrs. M., Galadima School, Abuja, Nigeria ...

"...What it comes down to is that when you purchase books in Kindle’s e-book format, they’re wrapped in DRM and are in a format that no other software can read. […] What happens to these e-books if Amazon, having lost money on the endeavor, stops producing Kindle readers a few years from now? What are the odds that these files will be readable 50 years from now? ..."