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Thoughts on mobile cloud computing

Posted on 7 July, 2009 by Stef

Mobile cloud computing represents an opportunity for the free/libre open source software movement that is just as big and radical as cloud computing, maybe even moreso. This is part 1 of a post about it, part 2 will follow shortly. … Continue reading →

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Moodle ripped off, should switch to Affero GPLv3

Posted on 24 June, 2008 by Stef

Roberto reports about the Lazio e-Citizen project chose Moodle to deliver courses to educate elderly citizens (age 60 and more) to use computers and Internet, but they don’t say that openly.’  I found it offensive, that AICA and all the … Continue reading →

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Freedom and privacy in hosted applications

Posted on 5 June, 2008 by Stef

I’m not a big believer of hosted applications mainly because they fail to deliver the ‘run everywhere there is a connection to the internet’ promise. Nonetheless, I’m using hosted apps very often, especially for school papers where I have to … Continue reading →

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Give the GNU GPL an ‘A’, as in Affero

Posted on 14 March, 2008 by Stef

The GNU Affero General Public License v3 is now officially an ‘open source’ license, approved by the Open Source Initiative. Funambol started the approval process of the best license available to protect copyleft, and business based on it, from predatory … Continue reading →

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