...it leads to dangerously skewed values. I don't need to remind anyone of all the abuses perpetrated in the name of chasing the dollar, do I? Or rant against idiotic billionaire worship? Whether it's a Gates or a Shuttleworth, admiring someone because they are able to amass a huge fortune is the dopiest form of idolatry.
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Why public education must use public software
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Public education ideally provides a comprehensive education for every citizen as one of the greatest accomplishments of worldwide civil governments. Without a successful public education system, the well-being of society is threatened.
Read more »What is best for Free Software Advancement
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Does the opensource movement or The Free Software movement best improve the situation for FLOSS. please read and participate in the discussion...
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Open Source Culture: The End of Artistic Ownership?
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Open-source culture. What does this bring to mind? For some, it represents freedom: freedom to speak, freedom to share, and freedom to change. Yet, to others, the words sound a death-knell. To them, anything open-source is dangerous.
Read more »FOSS: The Consideration Bridge
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A debate, seemingly endless in the Free and Open Source landscape between purest Free Software activists and Practicalist Open Source is starting to find it’s way into a recognisable, worthwhile settlement. At least in my own head.
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Use value and free software
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Remember the good old Marxist dialectics of commodities? When a good becomes a commodity, an exchange value is added to the pure use value that the good was originally created to be, and all hell breaks loose.
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The paradox of the sauna
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Our culture and our social norms have trained us to be secret about our private life. For Jeff Jarvis, this is stronger in Germany than in the US. There is a cultural aspect of privacy. But is it really a good thing? Maybe we talk about privacy too much, and the issue is elsewhere. Furthermore, generations don’t all share the same perception of what privacy is.
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A Trip Through The Cathedral & The Bazaar
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But this book was different. I'm a picky reader, but found that once I got going with Raymond's tome it was hard to put down.
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FOSS is not about deception, it's about caring for others
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A couple moments ago, I was just tinkering around with Pidgin, the famous free open source IM client. And for the first time ever, I finally stumbled upon an excellent feature that's been staring back at me for quite some time now, but for some reason, I've never cared to know what it is until now. The feature is called "OTR" which stands for "Off The Record messaging".
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Freedom and Informed Choice
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There’s a lot of talk in the Linux and free open-source software (FOSS) communities about freedom and choice. It’s practically a mantra. Y’see, wonderful though they are, each of these awesome Linux distributions comes with a hidden price for all that ease and convenience.
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Ubuntu: Does Freedom Matter?
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For the four years that I've been an Ubuntu user, I've grappled with this question: how important is it that Ubuntu is Free, and not just free?
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Software Freedom Law show
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Audiopodcast of Episode 0x27: Talking about Software Freedom -- Karen and Bradley discuss their views on software freedom advocacy.
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A parallel of principles
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...If you are a FLOSS enthusiast, are you ready to start supporting closed source systems if research shows that the closed development method in fact produces better software? For example, security expert Steve Gibson recently argued persuasively on his podcast that there is no real difference in security between the closed and open source software development methodologies...
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David Koepsell on Ethical Problems With ‘Intellectual Property’
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A new talk which criticises copyright and patents of particular types
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Why GNU+Linux is > GNU/Linux and > just Linux
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"Let's get the obvious out of the way, we advocate for computer software users' freedom. Let's look at it mathematically, 'GNU / Linux' means GNU divided by Linux. How does that make any sense?"
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