Nov
14
2009
There are many companies making money with Free/Open Source Software and it’s still not easy to identify a free software company. I’ve always advocated to put respect of customers’ needs and ethics in digital society as one of the crucial elements to identify a free software business.
Simon Phipps has put together a scorecard, a set [...]
Tags: ethics, free software buisiness, open source, phipps, scorecard
Dec
20
2007
Standards can be a Royal PITA and every developer and hacker knows that. But for users they’re the only way not to go crazy. Web standards give users the possibility to connect to the Internet from any device and blog, check email, get and make information. The debate is heating up on [...]
Tags: antitrust, ethics, IE, interoperability, microsoft, open standards, opera, W3C
Nov
09
2007
Roberto’s latest comment reminded me of his presentation at quifree.’ One of the points he made was about the missing ‘perception’ of Free/Libre software, a constant discussion theme during the years at FSFE.’ What are the values of Free Software? How to make such values meet the needs of users, citizens and companies? While many [...]
Tags: business, community, ethics, free software, marketing