Bruce Byfield: "Anyone looking for a summary of the free software movement's concerns needs only to look at Richard M.
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Richard Stallman and the Connotations of Language
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Stallman's Speech at Model Engineering College About Software Patent Dangers
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"After that introduction, I am sure many of you want to know about Free Software. But unfortunately that's not what I am supposed to speak about. In fact, this topic, software patents, is not very closely related to the issue of Free Software. Software patents are a danger that affect all programmers and all computer users.
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Economist Critic of Software Patents gets Nobel Prize
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"The FFII congratulates Eric S. Maskin, an economist who has long criticised the patenting of software, for receiving the 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics. Prof. Maskin and two colleagues receive the Prize for research into the optimal design of economic mechanisms.
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What should be proprietary in open source?
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Your good name. Trademark it. Protect your Web site registration. You can’t protect your code, but if someone wants to fork it they can do it under another name. (Image from BrandChannel.)
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RMS: E-book
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"Amazon's e-book device means an ugly future for book lovers." -- RMS
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Is there an enemy in peer production? 1) Stefan Meretz
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"...Workers and capitalists are opposed to each other, but not antagonistic. They fulfill (of course: opposite) roles inside a common framework of self-valualisation of capital (”making more money from money”). A free society is a society, were this “framework” (based on the alienated cybernetic self-valualisation) has qualitatively changed. — This btw.
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RMS: piracy
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"After reading this, I have a suggestion: to denounce the term "piracy" as a propaganda smear when applied to copying and sharing...
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Confusing Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding
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"There are a number of words and phrases which we recommend avoiding, or avoiding in certain contexts and usages. The reason is either that they are ambiguous, or that they imply an opinion that we hope you may not entirely agree with..."
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Eric S. Maskin and software patents
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"Eric S. Maskin has just been awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, often called Nobel Prize in Economics. [...] But Eric S. Maskin may be known to readers of this blog for another reason. He is the co-author of the landmark 2000 Bessen-Maskin paper on the relationship between sequential innovation, patents and investment in R&D.
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Expert Witness Defense Fund for RIAA Cases Established by Free Software Foundation
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"The Free Software Foundation has announced that it has established an Expert Witness Defense Fund to assist defendants in RIAA cases, in order "to help provide computer expert witnesses to combat RIAA's ongoing lawsuits, and to defend against the RIAA's attempt to redefine copyright law."
Contributions to the Fund are tax deductible and may be made at the following URL...
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Free Culture Intro
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"...The GNU Free Documentation License is a clever piece of work: rather than using copyright law to prohibit you from using works released under it, it uses copyright law to guarantee that you will always be free to use, modify, redistribute and study works released under it.
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Free Software and Free Society
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"I participated in a panel discussion of Decoding Liberation at the Wolfe Institute at Brooklyn College yesterday. The book, written by Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter, colleagues of mine at BC, is an important sociological, political and technical treatment of the free software movement..."
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Richard Stallman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms",[1] is an American software freedom activist, hacker,[2] and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[3] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer.
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Video of Eben Moglen’s Talk at IBM Research Now Available Online
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"I just got a note from Joe Latone of IBM Research that brought the happy news that the video of Eben Moglen’s talk Copyleft Capitalism, GPLv3 and the Future of Software Innovation, given at at IBM Research on October 29, 2007, is now available online: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2408787365037153871 ..."
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Google, GNU/Linux and the future of personal computing
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"Nick Carr posted recently about 'Google, Apple and the future of personal computing'. I agree that mainstream popular computing is shifting from desktop apps to web apps, and while Microsoft is trying to do it all itself, specialist players like Apple and Google are forming coalitions. But I disagree that the future will be found in Apple: The future is in free software..."
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