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Category Archives: Free Culture

Is Fedora for newbies?

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Last week I responded to an email sent to the webmaster@fp.org address. Most of the replies we make to those emails are stock-answers, such as http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ServerTestPage when they email that Fedora stole their website and replaced it with “your page,” or a pointer to the Fedora communicate and get help page. I [...]

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Free distro love - an audiocast

Monday, May 19, 2008

When we met at CommunityOne to have a “battle of the GNU/Linux distros,” (or “smackdown” as Barton called it,) I didn’t expect it to be imbalanced.  But it was.  There was entirely too much love, respect, and violent agreement for me.
You can witness for yourself by hoisting down this audiocast that includes a cool cast [...]

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Should we use the CC when it’s not truly freeing?

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

If you haven’t read the well-reasoned article on FreedomDefined.org about not using the non-commercial (NC) clause of the CC license, please do. Recently I saw Benjamin Mako Hill give a talk about free culture, and he showed some graphics that are several years old about the proliferation of CC licenses, especially which types are [...]

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