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Do you like the new sticker from Defective by Design?
The campaign to free the digital world from Digital Restrictions Management just got a new sticker. The old one is on my laptop’s screen represents the famous iPod silhouettes with white wires acting as shackles. It was a simple and … Continue reading
Beyond removing GNU software from mobile stores
Last week the Free Software Foundation asked Apple to either remove the game GNU Go from the iTunes App Store or change the terms of service on it. Apple chose to simply remove GNU Go from the store and the … Continue reading
Ryzom is free as in freedom software
Ryzom is a Massive Multyplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), a beautiful one, with a very big universe and a lot of users. With the help of FSF, Winch Gate Properties, the copyright holders of Ryzom, released the server and … Continue reading
Why I wish I could reject your email attachment
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched a campaign calling on all computer users to start politely rejecting email attachments sent in secret and proprietary formats: for freedom and the good of the web! I believe that open standards are … Continue reading
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Tagged campaign, community, fsf, microsoft, mobile, odf, open standards, openoffice.org
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A free decentralized social networking platform
Eben Moglen’s call for a free and decentralized social networking platform seems to have been heard OneSocialWeb, Apache2 license, developed by Vodafone R&D Labs The purpose of onesocialweb is to enable free, open, and decentralized social applications on the web. … Continue reading
iPad DRM endangers our rights
The Free Software Foundation guys are ready to remind us the real threat that iPad furthers: The iPad’s unprecedented use of DRM to control all capabilities of a general purpose computer is a dangerous step backward for computing and for … Continue reading
Why I agree with RMS concerning Mono
I’ve been listening to the conversations about Mono since this summer. I was waiting for the dust to settle before I started re-reading the various comments but the dust is not settling and the protagonists of the summer name-calling-fest are … Continue reading
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Tagged community, fsf, interoperability, mono, novell, rms, software patents
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Locked devices, GPLv3 and the path to mobile freedom
In a recent discussion with friends I realized that tivoization is a sub-optimal world to describe the problem that the Free Software community has with freedom being controlled by those that control the hardware. The word clearly targets one specific … Continue reading
Posted in business, community, eng, fsf
Tagged cloud, community, funambol, gplv3, locked devices, mobile, mobile cloud
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Get the facts of DRM, don’t buy CRAP
Did you think Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) can be good for society? If that’s your opinion, you better start looking at facts. Ars Technica reports that Some Kindle users are angry because Amazon blocked them from their Kindle accounts, thereby … Continue reading
Mobile phone markets are designed to split our community
Apple’s iPhone biggest innovation is its mobile app store: for the first time it allowed installing software on the mobile device with the convenience of any modern GNU/Linux distribution. Like in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, installing software is just a matter … Continue reading