FOSS: The Consideration Bridge
A debate, seemingly endless in the Free and Open Source landscape between purest Free Software activists and Practicalist Open Source is starting to find it’s way into a recognisable, worthwhile...
View ArticleExample of FOSS Economics
People who read my blog regularly know I’m big on looking into discovering what it is that will allow software creators, bug fixers and all the other people involved in producing functional products...
View ArticleOpen Source Cargo Cult
Have you ever wondered if the people who claim to want to use “open source” don’t really understand what it is? I get this feeling a lot, mostly from the media, government politicians and...
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Free Culture Poster: Review
My dearest community, please consider spending a minute of your time reading this early draft of a poster I am constructing. It’s target audience is the general masses attending libraries, colleges and...
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Conceptual Icons
This is the current evolution of the FOSS icons I’ve been using for posters and flyers, as you can see I’ve been focusing on a number of concepts to iconify the powerful rights given to users with Free...
View ArticleHold on Tight to Principles
I wanted to take this comment I made in an email and post it to my blog. I’m fairly principled and I try my best with all sorts of things. There is something about principles which I think is not well...
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Ubuntu One and FOSS Services
My good friend S.Gerguri asked me to talk about the nature of the Ubuntu One services offered by Canonical Ltd. and has sent me his thoughts by email, I’ve quoted him here and responded with my own...
View ArticleWhat Do You Believe In?
I’ve been watching the tedTalk by Simon Sinek and I wanted to ask you all as a community what you believe in. According to Simon there are die hard Apple fans who love Apple and their products because...
View ArticleIs open siege under sourced? Let’s not hope!
An excellent post by txwikinger on his blog called Is open source under siege? Let’s hope not! paints a picture of all the recent movements in the business world which seem to undermine free and open...
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Ubuntu’s Non-Free Parabox
Our venerable friend Jono Bacon has posted an interesting blog post concerning the outcome of the bug to enable the nonfree installation of Flash on Ubuntu. It would have manifested itself in the...
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