«'Public Software'? The so-called Public Software is a political project which aims to remove the Free Software main feature: the Freedom. It tries to put the people in the role of mere 'viewing public'.
Read more »“Public Software”: a serious symptom of the crisis in the Free Software Social Movement
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Franklin Street Statement on Freedom and Network Services
"...The current generation of network services or Software as a Service can provide advantages over traditional, locally installed software in ease of deployment, collaboration, and data aggregation. Many users have begun to rely on such services in preference to software provisioned by themselves or their organizations.
Read more »EFF: E-voting
Many states are hastily implementing flawed electronic voting machines and related election procedures.
Read more »Remember the "iGeeks" - New Campaign Takes on "I hate digg" Suzanne Shell
Suzanne Shell is at is again, censoring her critics. She posted the information of a critic who was a minor on her site, and filed a police report against him for causing the DIGG effect to get her in addition to putting her website in a frame on his or as Suzanne likes to call it, domain hijacking.
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Write to WBUR/NPR radio and tell them to stream in a format other than MP3!
MP3 is encumbered with patents which require listeners to buy licensed players or risk facing patent infringement lawsuits. Since WBUR is publicly funded, it seems silly for it to use resources to enrich a private enterprise. Listeners have already payed once to have the content made, so they shouldn't have to pay an extra MP3 tax.
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