" The U.S.

"...The current plans regarding the collection of information about citizens’ communication, movements and use of media constitute the greatest threat yet to our right to an independent and private life..."

"...My main point was: I really enjoyed being involved in global and European political processes and activities like the World Summit on the Information Society or European Digital Rights for the last four years, but it is such a difference between having to rely on email lists most of the time and working with real people most of the time."

"...In the brief time available to me I have only been able to describe informally and in a brief way the benefits that open approaches knowledge can bring our society..."

"The Association for Progressive Communications has an article / interview on how communication technologies can be used for development." (and so, how free software could be used)

And with this Roomba, we run in to another Proprietary Agreement. ... Wasn't there some quote, maybe from Ben Franklin, about trading essential liberty for clean floors?

As I mentioned in my previous post on this topic, Open Source and open technology trends continue to swing in one direction (up and to the right). Along this ever-growing open technology spectrum lie various projects and companies who hope to gain a competitive advantage through some type of open collaboration initiative.

"An objection I've had to many programming books and web sites is that they don't make sample code available under a free software license. This is within the rights of the author, of course, but it seems counter to the spirit of teaching and sharing knowledge to restrict the use of example code.