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26 May 2009
RIAA Fines: Not so Fine
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Yesterday I told the story of RMS and his magic bread, and what it taught us about sharing; here's the negative corollary, courtesy of ...
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25 May 2009
RMS and His Magic Bread
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One of the reasons I admire RMS is because of his complete integrity and consistency. He simply will not compromise on his principles, even...
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30 April 2009
P2P is Political
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Richard Stallman has always regarded free software as about freedom, and hence inherently political. And so it's no surprise that many ...
17 April 2009
Copyright Industries' Pyrrhic Victories
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It's extraordinary how much that formerly-drab old subject of copyright is in the news these days. There's the Amazon Kindle story...
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Of RMS, Ethical Visions, and Copyright Law
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As RMS emphasises again and again, at the heart of free software lies an ethical vision of sharing and mutual respect. Although open source...
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16 April 2009
Is RMS Entering the Fray Again?
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The influence of RMS on the world of free software and beyond is, of course, immense. But sometimes his presence is more symbolic than real...
15 April 2009
RMS on Amazon's "Swindle"
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As you've probably seen, there is concern over Amazon's plans to pull the text-to-voice capability of the Kindle e-book reader, beca...
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29 March 2009
Building on Richard Stallman's Greatest Achievement
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What was Richard Stallman's greatest achievement? Some might say it's Emacs, one of the most powerful and adaptable pieces of softwa...
24 March 2009
And RMS Spake, and it Was Good
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As well as being a great coder, RMS is a fine writer (he made a number of excellent suggestions when I sent him rough drafts of the relevant...
21 March 2009
RMS "Broke into Microsoft and Stole Software"...
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...that, at least, is what this deranged story in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper claims : Ричард Столлман. В 1990 году он объявил крест...
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01 January 2009
Laying Down the Law
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Ever since RMS drew up the GNU GPL, code and law have been inextricably linked. Mark Radcliffe provides a good summary of the last year fr...
28 November 2008
Microsoft Gets Busy in the Ukraine
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There are so many high-profile battles for the soul of computing going on that it is easy to overlook what is happening in some of the world...
19 November 2008
Why Free Software is a Con-Trick
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A number of sites have noted this interesting study of a particular kind of con-trick, known as "The pigeon drop". What really c...
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04 November 2008
Open Content's Great Healing
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There is an irony at the heart of the open content world: that the two biggest successes there – Wikipedia and the Creative Commons movement...
29 October 2008
A Big Day for Fans of Archimedes
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At 2pm on October 29th, 2008, ten years after the Archimedes Palimpsest was purchased by the present owner, the core data generated by the p...
20 October 2008
Clouds on the Cloud Horizon
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Following my post about RMS's doubts about clouds, Stan D. Freeman has kindly pointed me towards the growing kerfuffle over iGoogle...
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The Real Story Behind GNU/Linux
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If the prospect of another week stretching out before you is getting you down, I've got good news. There's a post about GNU/Linux th...
07 October 2008
Get Real, People: Get *Real* People
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I'm not a big fan of top “n” lists. They generally lack any kind of metric, and end up with bizarre compromise choices. This “Top Agenda...
29 September 2008
Watch Out! It's a Trap....
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Go, RMS , go: "One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control," he said. "It...
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11 September 2008
The Real Reason to Celebrate GNU's Birthday
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As you may have noticed, there's a bit of a virtual shindig going on in celebration of GNU's 25th birthday (including Stephen Fry...
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