Thank you very much for those great readings/resources! I love your IBM and
VW examples as well, will use when I talk to others about the subject.
And also add https://www.softwarefreedom.org/ to the list -- Eben Moglen is
one of the Directors here. There are also a bunch of videos on the site
penyuanhs...@gmail.com wrote:
I suspect the same thing. Can you elaborate a bit more on why you think
this is the case? Is there academic discussion on the definition of
consumerism and the ethics (or lack thereof) behind it?? I'd love to
read about this.
I suggest the work of Noam Chomsky,
Terry wrote:
The FSF has incredible geniuses who understand code, technologies,
future directions and social implications. Their philosophies are
incredible, however some lack of people skills contributes to remaining
exclusionary through alienating many by not understanding and embracing
brendanpmur...@gmail.com wrote:
Teaching coding doesn't involve explaining licences: that is something that
should be instilled by practice and leading the kids to use solutions that
have the appropriate licence.
I disagree; licensing power and responsible use of that power is very much
Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
So MS excel is looking to imitate gnumeric which already consults
with R project to get accurate statistics? Why would they need to buy
company to do this? Or did I miss something?
In order to legally distribute a non-free, user-subjugating program
compatible with
Ali Abdul Ghani wrote:
http://onpon4.github.io/other/fsf-no-derivatives/
I'm guessing you pointed us to this article because you wished to
discuss the article. Here are my views on this article.
The article makes a number of claims without any sources; there are no
links to other pages as
Miles Fidelman wrote:
I've begun to wonder if there is a conflict between software freedom and
key pieces of software that create massive dependency webs. Or put
another way, vendor lock-in.
I see no such conflict because the freedoms of free software don't
guarantee software you'll like
I wrote:
Are there any LibrePlanet 2015 mirrors getting reliable feeds of the
conference (which is running as I type this)?
It seems the streams from live.fsf.org are working again. Thanks!
It would be good to know if there are any reliable mirrors in case
live.fsf.org streams drop out
rysiek wrote:
Rather, Internet of Broken Things:
http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/26722r/the_internet_of_broken_things/
But yes, the question of retaining software freedom in a world of computing
things is a valid one, and a hard one. There is no silver bullet, and the
market will
Two years ago the radio show This American Life talked about software
idea patents:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
The show asked a number of unresolved questions about the details
involved in why people sue and threaten to sue others over
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