While waiting for the imminent release of PCLinuxOS 0.94 I started wishing for a USB flash drive to back up my /home data. I usually just buy the Live CD, but I then started to think, what I'd really ...
Lately, I've been thinking about what the free software movement is really about. Is it really just a bunch of guys who work with code, releasing it under a particular type of license? We seem to talk ...
The Free Computer is not a dream but it is a reality waiting to happen. All the elements are there we just need to gather them together. There has never been a better time to talk about the idea of th ...
While waiting for the imminent release of PCLinuxOS 0.94 I started wishing for a usb flash drive to back up my /home data. I usually just buy the Live CD, but I then started to think, what I'd really ...
What is free software? Should you care and if so, why and what does it have to do with cakes and my mother? # My mother and computers “Write a complete beginner’s guide to free software”, they said. “ ...
In my blog post a couple weeks ago I suggested non-profits should package up some free software solutions into niche packages and sell them as a fund raiser. The idea that there is so much FOSS availa ...
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the housenot a creature was stirring, just my USB mouse; The wife and the children are all settled in bed,As I sit at my desk scratching my head. And ...
To think about what free software licences should do about tivoisation, we have to understand what problems we're trying to prevent, and how it works - so that we can ensure that it doesn't work. # Ho ...
In the summer of 1947, President Harry S. Truman ordered formed asecret organization of military personnel, scientists, and members ofgovernment. A reaction to the Roswell UFO crash in July of that ye ...
I am planning on changing the world with this article. I can’t do it on my own: I need your help. Well, I must admit that changing the whole world might be a little ambitious. For now, I will settle f ...
The picturesque village of Yankeetown on Florida’s Nature Coast has been the recent target of a large time-sharing resort condominium development proposal. Several townsfolk looked into the developmen ...
The ideals of free software may have freedom have its center, but for many the concept of ‘free’ relates to its price. Even with RMS’s jingoistic “free as in freedom, not free as in beer” people don’t ...
Nvu, the GPL "complete web authoring system for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows"has been a boon to web developers seeking a free cross-platform WYSIWYG HTML editor since its 0.1 release back in early200 ...
I’m sure like many of you out there you have experienced the same frustrations that I have when trying to install Linux or BSD on a laptop. We need a new approach. There’s always some little piece of ...
Bruce Byfield of Linux.com has a great editorial up about Why FOSS isn’t on activist agendas. Bruce points out that although FOSS enthusiasts are great at discussing their “shared values” within their ...
“Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?” “I think it would be a very good idea.” “But what about American democracy?” “I think you better start using open source voting machines.” OK, ...
Gervase Markham, the Mozilla Foundation's licensing officer, in an article in the Times Online, talks about being questioned by a northern UK Trading License Officer about giving away software. The tr ...
Our family loves reading. The bookcases are full and most flat surfaces are covered with reading material. The written word seems to flow through our house, making brief stops to be read and then sent ...
I've been re-reading _The Third Wave_, by Alvin Toffler. Though first published over twenty years ago, there's still some serious predictive mojo left in that book. The basic concept is this: there ha ...
Mylatest blog entry began with this paragraph: > Messing with MP3 files is, for some people, a synonym for illegal use of copyrighted music. Well, actually it's not. The reason I wrote that incipit re ...