are you creative? [u]

2005-12-19 Thread Geert Lovink [c]
From: "Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The ?Campaign for Creativity? (C4C) is the undisputed winner of the Worst EU Lobbying Award 2005! No less than 85% of the over 8000 people that took part in the online voting identified C4C as the most deceptive corporate lobby campaig

FLOSS Redux: Notes on African Software Politics

2005-12-19 Thread Soenke Zehle [c]
A very short piece I wrote this summer to follow up on some of my incommunicado05 (a conference on ICT and development issues we did at De Balie) conversations with Bill Kagai, Guido Sohne, and Joris Komen; instead of adding gender-and-FLOSS to an already crowded (and by no means comprehensive) sk

Joost Smiers: Abandoning Copyright: A Blessing for Artists, Art, and Society [u]

2005-12-19 Thread Geert Lovink [c]
(posted to nettime with the permission of the author. /geert) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abandoning Copyright: A Blessing for Artists, Art, and Society By Joost Smiers de Volkskrant, 26 November 2005 http://www.culturelink.org/news/members/2005/members2005-011.html (English translation of original