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gOS: A wake up call for Freedomware marketing

libervisco — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:45:30 -0500

Think gOS. It might not be such a bad advice after all. It's been hyped up, but it sold out. And there may be lessons in its deployment and success for all of us Free Software and GNU/Linux advocates!

Consumer-control industry and their security damnation

libervisco — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:40:30 -0400

As Apple's Steve Jobs is announcing that they suddenly "want native third-party applications on the iPhone", something its users have been yearning to have ever since they started buying these phones (even if it meant hacking them), Steve justifies their prior resistance to this kind of openness by security threats. As he says, they are "trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once â€” provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc."

Where are the Free Software Women?

tbuitenh — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:27:07 -0400

Today I found an excellent small website about the gender imbalance in Free software. There's been a lot about the topic on the linux/free software news sites too.

Large parts of the free software community are rather hostile towards women, as unfortunately is usual in communities with a huge male majority. Which then prevents the community from becoming balanced because it will be unattractive to women.

Free/Open Services Definiton

tbuitenh — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:12:22 -0400

Another definition of free/open (web)service.

An Open Service Definition

tbuitenh — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:10:32 -0400

A definition of free/open (web)service.

Freedomware free as in $$

tbuitenh — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:56:53 -0400

Why is Free (as in freedom) software free (as in free beer)? A good answer in this post!

Time for a Free Software Business Initiative

libervisco — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:07:34 -0400

It is not enough to have Richard Stallman travel around the world endlessly giving standard Free Software speeches among other things repeating how Open Source is not the same thing as Free Software and how the operating system widely known as "Linux" is actually "GNU/Linux" (because GNU project in fact started that OS). It is not even enough to have Free Software supporters constantly keep pointing these things out and arguing why they believe so.

Merging "Open Source" and "Free Software"

libervisco — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:49:02 -0400

Due to the increased diffusion of "Open Source" as a term this article suggests its gradual phase out in favor of the original "Free Software" term and renaming of the "Open Source Initiative" into "Free Software Business Initiative" (no matter how controversial the proposal may be).

There are three ways we could look at Microsoft's recent approaches to the "Open Source" phenomenon.

1. They are in a process towards genuinely embracing Free Software or Open Source.

Free Computing Environment as a Undeclared Human Right

tbuitenh — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:57:34 -0400

Gustavo's post led to an interesting short discussion with yours truly. Is the availability of a free computing environment an undeclared human right, or is it merely a necessity for preserving human rights in today's society? Splitting of hairs, writing of words .

After 10 years: What is Open Source?

libervisco — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:35:12 -0400

In our earlier article, "Facts and Friction on Open Source and Free Software" we have explained where "Open Source" is coming from and what is its relation to Free Software and the Free Software Foundation that represents it. One of the points made was that the term Open Source deliberately de-emphasized a certain aspect of what defines Free Software as originally specified by the FSF in order to make Free Software, albeit under the new term, better appeal to the business world.