"It’s not often that we have *urgent* news in the Free Culture world, but today we do. [...] This bill contains wording that, if passed into law, would jeopardize federal aid for universities if they refused to filter their student’s internet access.
Read more »Congress Wants to Break NYU’s Internet and Kill Your Financial Aid
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Old-School Hacker Timeline
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"Before the word “hacker” was wrongly associated with vandalistic script kiddies and mischievous virus writers, it was used to describe an underground culture. This underground culture was made up of professional engineers and basement tinkerers obsessed with improving computer technology through unconventional, simple, yet brilliant tricks.
Read more »Achieve enlightenment: The command line as a tool
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The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts)
Free Culture Advanced
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"Not only is the free software movement a source of software and licenses, it is also a source of inspiration. In particular, free software has been cited by many in the nascent free culture movement as an explicit source of inspiration and point of departure.
Read more »Information technology, 'piracy' and DRM
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"Over at Sphere of Networks, I published a text that tries to give a simple overview of the workings of information production in the age of the internet, covering everything from free software to free culture. This article is a slightly modified version of a chapter of this text.
Read more »The death of reading, predicated on the intent to sustain it
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"...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? ..."
Read more »Facets of Open Source Part I
http://systhread.net –
Recently I was asked the following question: What is the point of differentiating Open Source as an entity versus something that has just always been there?
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Children: Children actively engage in knowledge construction
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“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 ...
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I hate ‘Hello, World’
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Greenpeace: Nintendo, Microsoft and Philips flunk toxic test
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"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..."
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OLPC is an Education Project and Should Take Opportunity to Learn
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"Again, a quoted problem is teacher training concerns. Peru did an intensive program in the pilot programme where teachers were given one-on-three training by the deployment team. Uruguay AFAIK just handed the laptops out. …"
http://www.olpcnews.com/implementation/plan/olpc_education_project_learn...
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GNU Project: Initial Announcement
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"This is the original announcement of the GNU Project, written by Richard Stallman in 1983..."
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Johan Soderbergh on Hacking Capitalism
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"The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement.
Read more »SELF: News November 2007
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"...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..."
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