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 […]
Driving back from San Francisco, I thought the whole time about the fairly incredible afternoon I just had. Sometimes you are present, involved, or even instrumental in something that just might be the beginning of a whole new world of love, and the after glow is pretty sweet. OK, this wasn’t really like […]
Following up on my post about Jono Bacon’s topic of the ‘vocal minority’, I asked him directly to make it clear that when he is talking about this vocal minority, he really means a relatively small subset of people to whom freedom is the most important feature. Point made and taken.
The resulting discussion […]
I’m sure that Jono Bacon didn’t mean to equate everyone who insists on a 100% free software distribution with rabid people-kickers “full of vitriol.” It just sounded as if that is what he meant to say. And since he asked that when we observe people being vitriolic, negative, and oppressive of other’s choices in the […]
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Caught this recently, our local public library has chosen an open source solution (Koha ZOOM) and provider because, “We are convinced that open-source products provide greater functionality and control over what we can do with an ILS system,” (Dan Landry, Director of IT for SCPL). From the press release I was pleased to read […]
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
While I was enjoying my colleague Ruth’s video for Document Freedom Day, I was struck by the irony that to get her message out widely, she was forced to write to a non-free format (Flash). “From our frying pan we leaped … and landed in another frying pan.” Fedora is often in […]