"The Participatory Culture Foundation, a Massachusetts based 501(c)(3) non-profit, makes bottom-up economies and cultures possible by ensuring that our political, social and cultural systems are open and democratic everywhere. We work to eliminate gatekeepers and empower communities around the world."
Jeanne Shaheen (D), in NYT: Kaspersky Lab, the cybersecurity company, is close to Putin’s government. So why is the U.S. government using its software?
From the late 90s, illegal filesharing gradually brought the music industry to its knees. Exclusive extracts from Stephen Witt’s book pinpoint how music ‘got free’
abt Alan Ellis
a comment: ""Brought the music industry to it's knees"? Bollocks. End of story."
Slate, "But as shocking as Volkswagen’s fraud may be, it only heralds more of its kind. It’s time to address one of the most urgent if overlooked tech transparency issues—secret code in the criminal justice system. Today, closed, proprietary software can put you in prison or even on death row. And in most U.S. jurisdictions you still wouldn’t have the right to inspect it. In short, prosecutors have a Volkswagen problem."
"The biggest unsolved, but acknowledged, problem is getting the resources to build platforms that can compete with venture capital-funded platforms. ... The answer can be simple. The Black Star Coop brewery and restaurant in Austin, Texas, is owned by its customer-members while the workers manage it."
The State Duma’s vice speaker has asked the Russian government to ban the use of the Windows 10 OS among Russian civil servants over fears the American software may give access to classified information and Russian officials’ personal data.
Nir Eyal 23.6.2012: “What people aren’t telling you,” Peter Thiel taught his class at Stanford, “can very often give you great insight as to where you should be directing your attention.” - "monetizable secrets" abt "user behavior", and network effects - "software continues to eat the world"
Elias Aarnio: "FLOSS.fi:n idea on koota VALO-käyttäjiä erilaisiin viiteryhmiin, joilla on jokaisella oma fooruminsa." "FLOSS.fi on käynnistetty [Oct -13?] Euroopan sosiaalirahaston rahoittaman Avoimuudesta Voimaa Oppimisverkostoihin eli AVO2-hankkeen toimintana."
in a Swedish book about libraries I found this reference to Vinton Cerf's lecture "The Future of Information and Communication Technology" However, the lecture is presented in a commercial format, which is not accessible with the web browser I use. I wish the new library of Alexandria would offer this lecture, and all web content, also in formats which are compatible and readable with open standards and free software.
"Though a fervent supporter of his former employer to this day, Wozniak told attendees of an event in Sydney that Apple could still open the architecture on its growing range of phones, computers and tablets to the masses for the greater good"
"Toimitusjohtaja Tatu Ylönen yrittää vetää tietoturvayhtiö Tectian pörssistä ja palata yrittäjäksi. Hän tahtoo luoda uutta ilman pörssin tiukkoja sääntöjä. Ylönen haluaa käyttää kykyjään esimerkiksi puolustusvälineisiin, joilla voitaisiin torjua kyberhyökkäys. Hänestä kynnys iskeä tietoverkkoihin on selvästi alempi kuin kynnys pudottaa pommeja."
April 3, 2012 - 9:33pm By Joshua Kim Have you noticed that books are looking more and more like apps? Do you find yourself buying books from the Kindle Single store? Browsing the nonfiction selections at nowandthenreader.com? Checking out the original stories at atavist.net? Getting excited about the newest release from the TED Books?
Bundesbildungsministerin Annette Schavan muss sich gegen neue Plagiatsvorwürfe bei ihrer Doktorarbeit verteidigen. Der Gründer der Internet-Plattform VroniPlag, Martin Heidingsfelder, wirft der CDU-Politikerin vor, an deutlich mehr Stellen abgeschrieben zu haben als bislang bekannt. „Auf über 33 Prozent der Seiten finden sich Plagiate bei Frau Schavan“, sagte der Erlanger Plagiatsexperte der „Augsburger Allgemeinen“ (Mittwochausgabe) nach einer Überprüfung der 32 Jahre alten Doktorarbeit.
Deeplink by Julie Samuels, "Essentially, Apple's patent provides for a device to investigate a user's identity, ostensibly to determine if and when that user is "unauthorized," or, in other words, stolen. More specifically, the technology would allow Appl
While Android may have the legal licensing to qualify as open source, it utterly fails on the equally important issues of transparency and community. Android basically gives you two options: Accept what Google gives you, or fork the entire codebase. Other
Semantic Bundle is a pre-packaged bundle of extensions for use with wikis that are based around the Semantic MediaWiki extension. It can be obtained either through SVN or by downloading a single .tgz or .zip file.
Rasmus Fleischer (Copyriot) i Sydsvenskan 23 augusti 2009: "Digitaliseringen har osäkrat bibliotekens identitet. Vissa svarar med den enfaldiga visionen om “digitala bibliotek”, i linje med den gamla idén om ett cyberspace dit befintliga verksamheter kund
"Code is the technical backbone of the DPLA. Where possible, the DPLA will make use of existing free and open source code; all new code funded by the DPLA will be free and open source. In order to facilitate and maximize interoperability, the DPLA platform will support open standards. It will be freely accessible for others to fork, host, and replicate with no discrimination based on use or field of endeavor."
Safiirilasi, kehittynyt akku ja huipputehoa. Siinäpä joitakin Canonicalin Ubuntu Edge -puhelimen ominaisuuksia. Mutta Linux-luuria ei tule, jos netin joukkorahoittajat eivät lähde mukaan. I t-viikko 23.7.2013 14:43
The gradual disappearance of open wireless networks is a tragedy of the commons, with a confusing twist of privacy and security debate. This essay explains why the progressive locking of wireless networks is harmful — for convenience, for privacy and for
"Used during the Great War Archive Initiative and Woruldhord project, CoCoCo (Community Contributed Collection) is a Ruby on Rails Web application used to collect and catalogue content contributed by website users. That content can be either textual or co
"We’re a global community of thousands who sincerely believe in the power of technology to enrich people’s lives. We’re a public benefit organization dedicated not to making money but to improving the way people everywhere experience the Internet. And we’
"Ydinvoimalan valvomon seinässä on sadoittain mekaanisia painikkeita ja hantaakeja. Tunnelma on hämmästyttävän 70-lukulainen, vaikka muutamia nykyaikaisia pc-työasemia onkin käytössä. No, emme oikeasti ole valvomossa vaan sitä tarkasti mallintavassa simul
Cyclos is open source online banking software for complementary currency systems like Barter networks and exchange systems as C3 (commerce and consumer circuit) that are introduced in order to stimulate the circulation and the availability of credit in re
This is an unofficial translation of the GNU General Public License into Finnish. It was not published by the Free Software Foundation, and does not legally state the distribution terms for software that uses the GNU GPL - only the original English text o
kirjasto ei enää tyydy "antamaan rahaa siitä, ettei ole estetty käyttämästä jotain ohjelmaa". Avoin lähdekoodi perustuu Internetin täysimittaiseen hyödyntämiseen ohjelmistokehityksessä: sen voima syntyy laajojen ihmisjoukkojen osallistumisesta prosessiin.
Fairphone was started by a group of passionate thinkers, designers and makers who want to change the phone industry. As our campaign grew into a social
Mishi Chowdhary: It's perfectly possible for a contact tracing app to help us fight COVID-19 while taking our right to privacy seriously. That is what we should demand.
To sum up India’s current situation, the government can order its citizens to use any piece of software without taking any responsibility for its accuracy, security or privacy architecture; it can eliminate the entire system of standards and architecture of the internet by moving fast, breaking things and as its an emergency, citizens can never ask for any review or rights but must feel very proud about this feat.
camille - February 7, 2014 "A theoretical question on my mind: has anyone ever tried putting a voluntary botnet at work to mine crypto-currencies for philanthropic fundraising purposes? "
"December 19, 2013 Great news! Thanks to the efforts of developers in France, CollectiveAccess has now been validated by the French Ministry of Culture for "Musées de France" inventory. "
There are so many hackers involved, even at this early stage, because FLOK (which stands for “Free/Libre Open Knowledge”) proposes a fundamental disruption of society. FLOK’s reason-to-be is to create a legal, economic and social framework for an entire country (Ecuador) that is consistent with principles that are the basic foundations of the Internet: peer-to-peer collaboration and shared knowledge FLOK Society is, at its core, a research project occurring within a university: Ecuador’s post-graduate-focused state school the IAEN.
Publishers Weekly, By Andrew Richard Albanese | Jul 26, 2010 Includes a 9 min Youtube presentation byCalifornia entrepreneur Jared Friedman, chief technology officer of "social publisher" Scribd, plus an interview with the same.
Zero to book in 5 days. Seem impossible? Its not, its very possible, fun, and extremely rewarding. There are three important outcomes from Book Sprints: * Producing a book * Sharing knowledge * Team/community building
Another unintended victim of game-changing Iran attack By Phil Muncaster, 11th November 2013 The infamous Stuxnet malware thought to have been developed by the US and Israel to disrupt Iran’s nuclear facilities, also managed to cause chaos at a Russian nuclear plant, according to Eugene Kaspersky.
The ’61 series systems do not have any way to provide the same loopback function or “Stereo Mix” that previous systems have provided. This is by design of the hardware. There cannot be any driver update to enable this function as the hardware layer does not support it.
T61Fortunately for Ubuntu the Lenovo ThinkPad T61 power consumption difference between Windows and Ubuntu Linux was not nearly as large as that of the Atom 330 plus Ion-based netbook. The ThinkPad T61 with Ubuntu consumed 14 per cent more power than Windows 7, but when both were loaded with Nvidia's binary driver that uses Powermizer and other power-savings techniques, Ubuntu consumed just nine per cent more power on average.
computer sweden 21.11. 201: Massimo Marchiori som är professor vid det italienska universitet Padua University har nu börjat presentera knapphändig information om den nya söktjänsten som går under namnet Volunia.
I understand that FlexBooks are free, or open source. Is the software that supports the FlexBooks open source, too? Our mission is to provide all our materials for free under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-Commercial/Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-NC-SA) License. For more information on the CC-BY-NC-SA license, see the selection of this FAQ about the content of FlexBooks, or visit the following URL, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. Our CK-12 system for FlexBooks is not yet geared to be a separate open source project.
Netflix has consistently shown reluctance to support customers using Linux and other open-source operating systems.[162] The company continues to support only Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX, relying on Microsoft Silverlight technology. On August 9, 2011, Netflix released a Google Chrome web store item for Chrome OS, PC and MAC, but it does not enable Netflix streaming on Linux machines. On Linux Machines running Chrome Browser, the extension sends users to Netflix.com