"Readers interested in the effect of the media environment on our lives will appreciate OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture, a critical examination of the public discourse surrounding the influence of multinational corporations, marketing, and branding..."
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Proprietary vs. OSS Software: The Debate Continues
Proprietary code powers the world banks, networks, voting machines and other critical applications that we regularly interact with. But the real question is where mission critical applications like this can be done with open source code, as many open source advocates would like to see happen.
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Free as in free milk: Microsoft's business practices in developing countries
In 1977 a boycott campaign was launched against Nestlé to protest for its marketing of breast milk substitutes. To make a long story short, Nestlé’s commercial agents in developing countries gave free samples of the infant formula to mothers shortly after they had given birth.
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FOSS and the philosophers
I used to think of myself as something of a rare bird -- a philosopher and software developer with a keen interest in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movements.
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History: Unix, GNU, Gnome
"A brief review of the history of Unix will place in context much of the terminology and philosophy of this operating system. Terms like Linux, GNU, Unix, Gnome, Free Software, and Free and Open Source Software get bandied around, often with little understanding and usually with much misunderstanding..."
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Twisting the Meaning of 'Free'
According to CESC Ltd chief information officer Subroto Das, “There is nothing called free software”. I beg to differ.
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Free as in Freedom by Sam Williams - Free eBook
Download Richard Stallman's crusade for Free Software. Available free, in a large variety of formats, from Manybooks.
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Open to Misinterpretation
"Before "open source", before free software, there was software in the public domain. You could say that software in the public domain was truly free."
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Pendulum has swung in the open source debate
"Once upon a time, the term "open source" was coined to save the free-software world from itself--or, rather, from the free-software zealots, as you can read on the Open Source Initiative's Web site."
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Open Source is no Web 2.0
"It is time we stop the term open source from getting hijacked. I recently wrote about how tech media doesn’t get open source. The events in the last week or so have confirmed my thesis further."
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Techzone: Ubuntu for Dummies ?
This is in response to the article at Jem Report .
I have tried to justify Ubuntu users are not Dumb.
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Black Google not as green as painted
Interesting blog about how environmentally friendly Google is, and whether painting the background black instead of white would save electricity and help save the planet.
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Ubuntu’s best move ever
"Was it the Dell laptops deal? The costless CD shipping from Shipit? The launch of the fully-free Gobuntu? Or will it be the liberation of the proprietary Launchpad platform?"
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Tech media doesn’t get open source
"The problem with the tech media (conventional media and tech blogosphere) is that they are way too deep into proprietary software and hit based economic models. This has resulted in way too many misinterpretations about open source."
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Do we still need LUGs?
"In the world of Linux, many things have changed in the last decade. The operating system itself has grown up, and is no longer an "upstart." But one mainstay of the Linux community, the Linux user group (LUG), appears to be on the decline in some areas. Attendance is down, LUG presidents say, and some groups have stopped meeting. Does this mean we don't need LUGs anymore?"
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