The 5.0 ("Lenny") release of Debian Linux has been delayed by a philosophical rift among project developers. In a thoughtful essay entitled "Debian, Philosophy, and People," Linux Foundation Fellow Ted T'so draws examples from literature, religion, and philosophy in renouncing the free software absolutism of Debian's Social Contract.
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Bollier's 'Viral Spiral' -- Being Out of Control Is a Good Thing
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"In the beginning, there was Stallman.Richard Stallman, Biblical in appearance with long beard, could be mistaken for a long-ago prophet.Self-righteous, obstreperous and outspoken Stallman and his rebellion against the centralized world of computer software, is the jumping-off point for Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, by David Bollier, one of the co-founders
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Linux: From Freedom to Fascism
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It is Debian GNU/Linux, but it is Linux Mint and just plain old Ubuntu. But Canonical says Ubuntu is a Linux-based distro, not a GNU/Linux based distro. It is also PCLinuxOS and not PCGNU/LinuxOS. Redhat calls it Redhat Linux and the list goes on. So what is it GNU/Linux or Linux?
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Freedom
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"So I am now an official donor to the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. These are two organizations that I feel strongly about, and that I just had to become a member of and support their causes [...] I just wanted to share my feelings on that."
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A world free from DRM, copyrights and patents
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What would it be like to wake up tomorrow and have the ability to take everything that exists and recreate it as needed absolutely free from royalty or limitation? If people and companies could copy anything in existence, rolling it into whatever product they can design, and then attempt to sell it to others ... what would that world look like?
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Corporations are idiots!!!
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Everybody has his/her own reason for using Free Software. Unfortunately, my favorite reason seems to be among the most “FUDed” by proprietary software companies. (Behind “Lowering the TCO”) I personally believe the most important aspect of Free Software is the advancement of society.
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Episode 0x05: Eben Moglen on Origins of Copyright and Patents
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"...In the speech, Eben discusses in depth the origins of the copyright and patent system, and how Free Software interacts with that history..."
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Action research: mapping the nexus of research and political action
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"...The first examples of online creation communities are development communities, that is communities developed around free software programming, such as the communities around Apache, GNU and Linux, Debian or Drupal.
Read more »Money is Not Wealth
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We hear it so often it becomes part of the overall background noise-- silly propaganda about how FOSS is anti-capitalist and un-American because it can't be locked up and exploited. I picture people who look like Mr. Burns on the Simpsons cackling, rubbing their hands, and gloating over their ill-gotten gains. They must be ill-gotten because it's more fun that way. "Mine! All mine!
Read more »A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
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"This was originally posted 13 years ago today by John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Read more »Linux is a Monkey Wrench?
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Someone commented on one of my posts the other day, stating that Linux is a tool and not a religion. Can this be true? I would hate to think that for the past 15 years that I've invested in Linux, it would turn out that Linux is merely a tool, a--dare I say it--a monkey wrench? Say it ain't so.
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Music DRM
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Just yesterday I bought my first non-DRM'd songs (The Last Vegas, in keeping with my 'I only listen to things from Guitar Hero' theme).
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Linux For Anarchists
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There is a disturbing lack of resistance to Microsoft's market hegemony among anarchists and activists today. It is counter-revolutionary to design revolutionary fliers on a computer running Windows XP, displaying protest pictures on a computer running Windows XP is not a statement of protest, and using Microsoft software to coordinate anti-capitalist action is not anti-capitalist.
Read more »Response to "Why Games are NOT the Key to Linux Adoption"
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A response to Jon Peck's article "Why Games are NOT the Key to Linux Adoption", pointing out the flaws in his arguments.
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Mr. Stallman's Internet: How RMS May Be Looking The Wrong Way At The Internet
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Once more unto the breach my friends, Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has laid another profound thought process out there for us to digest. This man is definitely deserves everyone's respect. Whether you agree with him or not, he has given the whole planet gifts that it does not even realize for the most part.
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