What are the social consequences of basing one’s communication on email, instant messaging, or netnews? Randal Schwartz, Perl hacker, gave an interesting talk on this matter at FISL7 (download the audio or listen now). This talk is distributed to you … Continue reading
The GNU General Public License (or GPL), the most widely used free software license, is being revised. Version 3 is imminent and there is much heated discussion because this license is a kind of constitution for the free software movement. … Continue reading
Prof. Eben Moglen’s opening keynote from the “Wizards of OS” 3 (audio, play it now!): Die Gedanken Sind Frei (The Thoughts are Free). Informative, insightful, and a real crowd-pleaser. This talk is distributed under the Creative Commons By-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
They do for making programs and working on various projects, but the Open Source Initiative has quite a history telling people that it is okay to dismiss freedom talk. I think highly of people, like Eben Moglen, who are able … Continue reading
From FISL7.0: James Gettys of One Laptop Per Child (audio) talking about the project. This recording is distributed to you under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. If you’ve ever wondered about this project or are interested in getting viable … Continue reading
I found Daniel Olivera’s part of this talk (audio) interesting (I only speak English, so I can only discuss the English parts of it), but I’d like to expand on the last part some more. This video is licensed under … Continue reading
Apple released a new version of their proprietary music player iTunes. iTunes is both a music player program and a music download service. Apparently this new version can make your purchased iTunes music vanish and only the administrators at Apple … Continue reading
Democracy Now! reports (audio) that According to the U.S. Census Bureau, one in eight Americans and almost one in four African Americans lived in poverty last year. It was the first year the poverty rate did not increase since President … Continue reading
In what’s sure to be an ongoing series here about undemocratic control over institutions, I direct you to an article from MSNBC on Patricia Dunn, HP’s Board Chair, spying on her boardmembers home phone records in order to find out … Continue reading
The BBC reports that Sisvel is targetting SanDisk for not paying their MP3 licensing fee. It’s a warning to users as well; users can be sued for patent infringement too. Paul Heckel, a software developer who held patents which allegedly … Continue reading