Simon Law gave an OSS presentation to the Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo that was fantasitc. I was actually most impressed with the question and answer part of his talk. First of all, the Waterloo CS club asked some awesome questions. Questions that really deserve good answers but usually get much less [...]
I was sent this article and just had to laugh when I read it: Open Season on Open Source? This seems like a bunch of corporate propaganda to me. The author completely fails to make the distinction between the open-source definition and the definition she used for this article. Open-source does not just mean any [...]
After reading through the freeculture.org site I found savetheipod.com. It’s a website devoted to making people aware of the INDUCE Act. The INDUCE Act is legislation being pushed by the record industry that would allow them to file lawsuits against companies that make unrestricted music hardware or software, such as the iPod or filesharing programs. [...]
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Posted 21 November 2005
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I’ve released all the songs that I’ve written and recorded so far (with a few exceptions) to The Radix Point on the Music page. Since I’ve been getting so into the idea of Free Culture, I decided that just licensing my code under the GPL wasn’t enough. I’ve published this whole website under the Creative [...]
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Posted 11 November 2005
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Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture presentation. If you don’t fight for your freedom, then you don’t deserve it. – Lawrence Lessig Open source advocates always see the fight for freedom as a battle between us and the government. No matter what, our government is for the people, by the people. No one will be able to [...]
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Posted 16 October 2005
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