RMS: «If you are talking about the practice of installing non-free software into a browser, the only thing that is good to offer is the reminder that you must refuse to do that.» --
Read more »Why the Web is Defective by Design!
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Radio New Zealand interview with Richard Stallman
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Full interview available in Ogg Format: http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Free...
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Free Software, Free Society: convenience vs freedom (was "My disagreement with Richard Stallman")
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* RMS: «We cater to them (people who don't care about software freedom) to the extent it doesn't interfere with more important goals, such as establishing a free society.»
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Richard Stallman in Auckland: On the ethics of free software
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"...RMS also spend some time on elaborating why people shouldn't just talk about 'Linux' when they discuss those distributions they run on their computers, but instead should call it GNU/Linux [...] GNU's philosophy and motivation is the freedom of users, while Linux does not represent those values at all.
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Freedom Socks - Episode 4
http://socks.freedomdreams.co.uk –
Freedom Socks is a podcast about Linux and freedom in general. In our fourth installment, we go over this weeks news, review dvorak and the naughty ktouch and vent our fustration with jokoster. Then, we review some Linux games, and discuss their ethics, before finishing off with some feedback. Availible in ogg and mp3.
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The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
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"The hackers of the artificial intellegence lab did most of their programing in the lisp programing language [...] They began writing programs in lisp that were unrelated to their work in artificial intellegence.
Read more »Peer-to-peer searching and sharing of electronic documents -- Paul Stacey (october 2004)
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"Peer-to-peer systems have existed since the first incarnation of the Internet. In recent times the Internet has taken on a more hierarchical form, power has been taken away from the individual and placed in the hands of operators of large servers. However, with the re-emergence of p2p the individual is gaining more freedom.
Read more »Learning Perl, 5th Edition
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Wanna learn Perl? Huh? Do ya, do ya, do ya? Sorry. When I started thinking about writing this review, I had a Dory moment. The question (such as it is) still stands, though. Do you want to learn Perl? If you do you've come to the right place...maybe. Let me explain.
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autonom.us aims to be think-tank on network service software licensing issues
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"Network services are one of the fastest growing areas in modern software. However, while network services have much of the convenience of free software, only a minority are available under a free license. In fact, it was only last November that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) released the GNU Affero General Public License for network services.
Read more »Demonstrations for Freedom in Europe and the US on the 11th of October
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Free Software, Free Society: convenience vs freedom
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RMS: «... We cater to them (people who don't care about software freedom) to the extent it doesn't interfere with more important goals, such as establishing a free society.»
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Design in a P2P world: interview by Julien McHardy
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"I met Julien McHardy, who is doing a master thesis at the Glasgow School of Art on the role of design in the creation of creative communities, during my lecture at the Urban Learning Space where I was invited by Yvonne Kincaid in April 2008.
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Free Software leader slams NZ copyright
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"..RMS’s other mission here is to promote the Free Software Movement. The creator of the GPL...is at pains to correct misunderstandings of what the term free software means and to draw a distinction between it and the open source movement.
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Why sharing matters more than marketshare to GNU/Linux
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In a recent article, Ryan Cartwright argued that free software isn't playing the "same game" as proprietary software is. He's right—but that begs the question: what game is GNU/Linux playing?
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Why free software and Apple's iPhone don't mix - by John Sullivan
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"I've published a second article for the Free Software Foundation about Apple's iPhone, looking at the measures Apple uses to control iPhone users and prevent developers from writing free software for the platform. It turns out that this is a good example of why updating the GPL was important, and why it's a good idea for developers to use the new version (GPLv3).
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