Users' groups must go to bat for their users

The traditional users' group has largely been a semi-informal, unstructured gathering of users of some particular technological or electronic development, particularly those developments which are computer-based or oriented. The earliest users' groups, and many current users'...

Stallman, the Swedish Pirate Party, and copyleft

A few days ago, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation published an op-ed to the GNU project's website, in which he criticized the copyright views of the Swedish Pirate Party, which had recently succeeded...

is wikipedia violating human rights?

first  i want to explain why i am against wikipedia.i also want to let people know that i am not alone.recently wikipedia was called "the largest distributed bureaucracy in the world".i am against them,...

the truth about PENGUINS!

the truth about PENGUINS! NOT from WIKIPEDIA. Penguins - Monogamous for a year Penguins are termed as monogamous animals. When they fall in love the couple stand breast to breast with their heads thrown back,...

FlipSilent - mute your phone by flip it over

A few days ago was released the first freeware app FlipSilent which makes phone to be muted off with one simple gesture - flip over. More detail here.

Blogs | Free Geek Vancouver - ethics of free software

your computer boots Microsoft Windows, the statement you’re making is that transnational corporations should control access to the most powerful public media that ever existed. You’re passively accepting, too, that non-industrial nations should be kept from...

Jimmy Wales Gives Talk on Free Culture, Transparency, and Search

Following Cory Doctorow's talk about 2 weeks ago on, "The State of the Copy Fight", Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia gave a lecture during Evan Korth’s Computer’s and Society course at NYU on "Free...

Next on menu for Starbucks? It's hot food

According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...

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