Former US Vice President Al Gore complains about the consolidation of the corporate media but no mention is made how this conflicts with his other loyalty: the Democratic Leadership Council.
First, check out this Gore quote from the Associated Press
Questions of fact that are threatening to wealth and power become questions of power, he said. And [...]
The Indian state of Kerala has chosen to migrate to GNU/Linux and it was a visit from Richard Stallman that put free software over the top.
Free software guru Richard Stallman’s visit last week had nudged the schools to discard the proprietary software altogether, state education minister MA Baby told FE [Financial Express]. Stallman has inspired [...]
After much bad press about Apple’s hardware failing including causing two instances of minor burns to people handling the machines, Apple has issued a recall on a bunch of bad batteries in their customer’s iBooks. Mike Pinkerton mentions a colleague’s Apple iBook battery won’t be recalled and asks
The odd thing is that all the [...]
Prof. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. Prof. Geist is working on 30 Days of DRM where each day for 30 days he brings something new to your attention in an attempt to examine the restrictions and limitations the Canadian government should include [...]
Fedora Core 5 GNU/Linux does not come with the latest version of the X11 GUI display software, software virtually everyone using this system runs and depends on for drawing a graphical display. Ante Karamatić doesn’t agree with the decision and asks
Fedora, remeber RMS and the GNU movment? Do you recall what OpenSource is?
The FSF [...]
On Slashdot, a technical discussion site, a poster tried to convince the readers that because the Free Software Foundation (which wrote the GNU GPL and is a big player in the free software movement) and the Motion Picture Association have the same power as licensors or defenders of licenses, one must see them the same [...]
I’m starting a new tag with this article—Technical—where I’ll cover technical subjects with little or no explanation of the jargon. These topics are not intended for the novice or the uninitiated. Everyone’s free to read and participate in the discussion, of course, but sometimes I feel like getting to the heart of the [...]
Tom Callaway would like you to write to Broadcom, a wireless hardware manufacturer, asking for driver software to run on a GNU/Linux system. This would mean that GNU/Linux users (perhaps users of other OSes as well) could use Broadcom hardware without having to reverse-engineer how the hardware works.
I wrote Broadcom the following:
Ironically Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman’s campaign is claiming he’s the victim of dirty political tricks at its worst. A good memory can provide the hat-trick that turns this into an amusing anecdote for your friends.
Extra bonus points to those who can connect the dots in the first and last items.
Richard M. Stallman gave an interview to Source21.nl during FOSDEM. Eben Moglen also gave a talk and took questions. This is available in two parts (1, 2). The second section has the Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted in any medium provided this notice is preserved. license in [...]
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