Feb 24 2010
I’m a firm believer that non-profit organizations need to have a strategy, too. Maybe even more than for-profit ones, because of the constant lack of resources. I’ve been watching without commenting the development of the five-year strategic plan for Wikimedia Foundation: fascinating. The process has entered the last phase, synthesis. There is lots to learn [...]
Jan 28 2010
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 media distribution.
Yesterday a group of FSF volunteers set up “Apple Restriction Zones” along the approaches to [...]
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Nov 11 2009
Ho tenuto oggi una lezione di tre ore al Social Media Lab dello IULM dal titolo Etica della società digitale, ovvero perché ristabilire il senso di comunità porta al successo. Oggi ho avuto la conferma che il software libero ormai non è un concetto astratto. Praticamente tutti gli studenti (delle facoltà di Lingue, Turismo, Marketing [...]
Oct 30 2009
There is a new way to support Free Software Foundation: get a GNU credit card. At first I thought this would never happen, but Stallman is a very surprising man: he doesn’t use credit cards because they carry too much personal information to ‘Big Brother’. Nevertheless, they’re convenient to use and with this one 0.3% [...]
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Oct 06 2009
We’ll have to judge the new foundation by its actions, but as a start there are no promising signs that this will contribute in any way to the free software movement. Instead, the foundation seems designed to increase the amount of software that, although distributed with licenses that respect formally the four freedoms (call it [...]
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Sep 29 2009
We don’t hate Microsoft, and we don’t consider it the Great Satan. But we do recognize it as the company that has separated more users from their freedom than any other, and a powerful avowed enemy of computer users’ freedom. We act accordingly.
via Is Microsoft the Great Satan? – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation [...]
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Sep 28 2009
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 still busy pointing fingers at Richard Stallman for stating his opinion.
Stallman’s position is pretty clear [...]
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Feb 09 2009
Patent encumbered standards are the worst because they seem legit, but instead they can easily become incompatible with Free/Libre Open Source Software.’ Free Software Foundation campaign is alerting the community to act fast:
Last January, the Free Software Foundation issued an alert to efforts at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to sneak a patent-encumbered standard [...]
Jan 22 2009
Scott Mc Nealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has been asked by the new Obama administration to prepare a paper about ‘open source’. From what I read on the BBC report, though, he is using a tired losing proposition:
The secret to a more secure and cost effective government is through open source technologies and products.
To me [...]
Jan 21 2009
I still have Obama’s inauguration’s speech in my mind, so full of passion and hope. It’s such a powerful word, hope.’ What most impressed me was his call to politicians to stop bickering and get to work to reform politics.’ This morning I read a post of Mitch Kapor, about the interconnection between politics and [...]
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