Sean Cohen's piece on ownership of software and vendor lock-in and other important things.
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Google's ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns RMS
Google's new cloud computing ChromeOS looks like a plan "to push people into careless computing" by forcing them to store their data in the cloud rather than on machines directly under their control, warns Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the operating system GNU.
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When Your Company Remote-Wipes Your Personal Phone
The phone's integration with MS Exchange automatically gives the server admin access to do remote wipes. All you have to do is configure the phone to receive email from an MS Exchange server and the server admin can wipe all your data at will.
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Old School Keyboard Control and HTML Character Entities On Linux And Unix
Two somewhat interesting but unrelated topics. The antibiotics must be kicking in ;)
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Why DFEY (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth)?
To mark the upcoming October 19th meeting of DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West) I have written a short essay about what I think DFEY exists for and why it came into being.
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Why I love Debian
Ubuntu and Linux Mint are great for new users, but I'm not a new user. I'm not trying to be snobby, and I don't think I'm better than anyone else; I just have different needs than most people. I don't want polish. I want to see and work with the guts of my operating system, because I like to be in total control of my computing experience.
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No Control? Actually, You Have Total Control.
In a recent article discussing the possibility of the open-source phone groups collaborating, it was mentioned that some people are nervous about relying on open-source.
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Divining from the Entrails of Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon
Make no mistake -- due to the energy that the Ubuntu community and Canonical, its corporate arm, have put into improving the desktop, this popularity is well-deserved. Yet, at the same time, I find myself wondering whether user-friendliness must inevitably mean discouraging users from exploring their systems or taking firm control over them.
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