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		<title>Apple&#8217;s iPhone OS license is worth avoiding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As if you didn&#8217;t already have enough reasons to avoid doing business with Apple, here&#8217;s one more&#8212;read The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement (local copy of the agreement PDF).
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties organization based in San Francisco, used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the secretive license [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2010/03/08/apples-iphone-os-license-is-worth-avoiding/</link>
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		<title>Glenn Greenwald versus Rachel Maddow and Andrea Mitchell on whether Andrew Joseph Stack is a terrorist and his suicide note</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened to see the 2010-02-18 Rachel Maddow show and the 2010-02-25 Democracy Now!.  Both discussed Andrew Joseph Stack III, the man who flew his plane into Building I of the Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas which killed Stack and IRS manager Vernon Hunter.  Stack left a suicide note (local copy) published [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2010/02/25/glenn-greenwald-versus-rachel-maddow-and-andrea-mitchell-on-whether-andrew-joseph-stack-is-a-terrorist-and-his-suicide-note/</link>
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		<title>Eben Moglen&#8217;s talk on Freedom in &#8220;The Cloud&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Eben Moglen, head of the Software Freedom Law Center, gives another must-not-miss talk on software freedom with hosted services (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and other third-party services run on behalf of their users), colloquially known as &#8220;the cloud&#8221; (a purposefully vague reference to hosting services somewhere else, a virtual place that contains your data).  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2010/02/09/eben-moglens-talk-on-freedom-in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Sita Sings the Blues vs. Ink: How licensing treats us differently</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sita Sings the Blues&#8221; is an independently produced movie that is widely legally copied on the Internet.  Writer/director/producer Nina Paley released &#8220;Sita&#8221; under a license that allows sharing (and far more, actually, but the details of how much more are beside the point of this article).  Sita is also for sale on her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2010/02/06/sita-sings-the-blues-vs-ink-how-licensing-treats-us-differently/</link>
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		<title>Remote control of your computer with non-free software is unwise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
BitTorrent is the most popular filesharing protocol on the Internet today.  BitTorrent users typically obtain pieces of the data they want and share pieces of the same data with others.  By cooperating in this fashion, almost everyone who wants a copy of the data gets what they want.
There are many programs one can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2010/01/31/remote-control-of-your-computer-with-non-free-software-is-unwise/</link>
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		<title>A free software conference or an open source conference?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[linux.conf.au describes itself as a &#8220;conference about Open Source Software, including Linux that brings together the world&#8217;s community of Linux enthusiasts who contribute to the Linux operating system&#8220;.  The description is apt because it clearly states how focused on the &#8220;open source&#8221; philosophy that conference is.  Their views and conclusions would differ if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2010/01/18/a-free-software-conference-or-an-open-source-conference/</link>
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		<title>Laying bare the myth of Obama&#8217;s beneficial presidency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How good can a president be when he continues the hated acts of his predecessor?  How valuable can that president&#8217;s support be when they challenge the predecessor&#8217;s wrongdoing but remain virtually silent about continuing the same bad policies?
Glenn Greenwald on Bill Moyer&#8217;s Journal in a web exclusive (video, transcript) had this to say about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2009/10/31/laying-bare-the-myth-of-obamas-beneficial-presidency/</link>
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		<title>Happy Software Freedom Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Software Freedom Day!  Today is a great day to share free software with everyone: chat it up with your friends and help them understand that software freedom is important in its own right.  The freedom to share, improve, and run software is critical for a democratic Internet built on making your computer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2009/09/19/happy-software-freedom-day-2/</link>
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		<title>gNewSense 2.3 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the gNewSense GNU/Linux hackers for putting out another release!
If you&#8217;re looking for a fully-free software GNU/Linux distribution for your Intel-compatible personal computer (most are such computers), download this disc image and give gNewSense a try.  gNewSense is a complete operating system based on the GNU OS and the Linux kernel.  gNewSense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2009/09/15/gnewsense-2-3-released/</link>
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		<title>Financial contributions help improve free software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m glad to be a financial contributor to a number of these projects precisely for the reason Webber mentions.  If you have the means, I too urge you to help free software projects financially.
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		<link>http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2009/09/13/financial-contributions-help-improve-free-software/</link>
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