"In cooperation with Digital Freedom, Free Culture @ NYU will be hosting the first American a screening of the 2007 film Good Copy Bad Copy. The documentary highlights the current state of copyright and culture, and features prominent copyright players such as Girl Talk, Lawrence Lessig, Renaldo Lemos, and Dan Glickman..."
Read more »Screening of Good Copy Bad Copy with Co-Director + MPAA Q&A Session
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Ten Ways to Make More Humane Open Source Software
A lot of bandwidth has been wasted arguing over the lack of usability in open-source software/free software (henceforth “OSS”). The debate continues at this moment on blogs, forums, and Slashdot comment threads.
Read more »In Responce to: Ten Ways to Make More Humane Open Source Software...
"...Free software is a political movement that is not only about producing software that’s source code is ‘open’, but it’s vision is a free society & free software. The term OSS gives too much emphasis to the source code being available, and not enough emphasis to freedom.
Read more »The search engine providers express their opinions on Censorship
"...Censorship is not acceptable under any circumstances, especially since it is not appropriate for any enterprise to decide on what a customer is willing to look at or not, for whatever reasons."
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Jews, Gentiles, and the Open Source Definition
I was read Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews today in the New Testament (Bible) and stumbled across some interesting background, background which resonates today in the open-source community...
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UNESCO prepares guides on computer recycling
"UNESCO gathered a group of partners to produce two guides to encourage the development of sustainable computer recycling plants."
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OLPC Peru/Arahuay
"OLPC Peru/Arahuay. A fascinating case study of the introduction of the XO to a school in Peru. It’s really exciting to see the project starting to make an impact."
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru/Arahuay
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Opinions seem to change once you’re hired by a large company
"...with some people (this applies to a minority) who start working for large companies and web browser manufacturers you can suddenly experience them doing a 180 degree turn with their opinions..."
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The Free Software Definition
"We maintain this free software definition to show clearly what must be true about a particular software program for it to be considered free software..."
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Why “open source” misses the point of software freedom
" The idea of open source is that allowing users to change and redistribute the software will make it more powerful and reliable. But this is not guaranteed. Developers of proprietary software are not necessarily incompetent. Sometimes they produce a program which is powerful and reliable, even though it does not respect the users’ freedom.
Read more »The state of Linux
There's no point in bashing other operating systems. Linux holds its place. It will get even better. But competition is good for us. It keeps us all in shape and prepared. It makes us go over the edge. It makes us think. (An interesting take on where free software is at)
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Our First Official Meeting in a Room of Our Own
"We’ll be discussing the latest and greatest happenings in the world of free culture, creative commons, and free software..."
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Why I switched back from Rails to Assembler
"I’ve been doing Ruby on Rails for more than 2 years now. Over a year ago, I went Java and .Net free, throwing myself head first into Ruby and Rails.
Read more »Social graph portability with a simple rel=”me”
"Brad Fitzpatrick’s Thoughts on the Social Graph few weeks ago ignited a spark in the blogosphere. The quest for a simple, neutral protocol for portability of your data (and relationships) and identity management is nothing new.
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