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Corporate investment the price of Linux's freedom
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| But now it seems that every corporation has its finger in the open source
| pie, and every long standing free software developer has been employed by a
| multi-billion dollar company to work on the project of his or her choice.
| This change began to happen during the late nineties, prior to Red Hat's $6
| billion flotation on the NASDAQ, but became truly significant when IBM
| announced its commitment to Linux in December 2000.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/610008/corporate-investment-the-price-of-linuxs-freedom
What is an “Open Source Company?” The Billion Dollar Question
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| My poster child for this is, predictably, Google. As I discussed last year, I
| consider Google to be an “open source business” because the business is
| effectively built on open source. True, its software is no more open than,
| say, the pieces of the IBM portfolio that embed the Apache HTTP server, but
| it’s undeniable that Google is a business that is built on, with and from
| open source software. And while some will undoubtedly challenge their side of
| the give and take equation, given their contributions from Summer of Code to
| Mark Callaghan’s MySQL patches I find it hard to argue that they are not
| benefiting a variety of communities.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/02/25/opensource_billions/
Recent:
Free Is Not Socialism
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| I've had a browser open with a two part series from the site "e-consultancy"
| for the better part of a month, debating whether or not it's even worth going
| through this battle again -- but it seems worth it to clear up some serious
| misconceptions. The first article decries "digital socialism" and the second
| part goes after the "tyranny of the consumer." This, by itself, seems
| contradictory. The capitalist free market works thanks to the tyranny of the
| consumer. That is, the entire reason why the free market works is because
| consumers have power to move to a competitor -- and that keeps producers
| in-line. Complaining about consumers getting their way is a rejection of
| capitalism and the free market, not support for it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081121/0323212915.shtml
Related:
Environmental and social justice groups unite in support of free software
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| Read and comment at the BadVista.org blogVista was engineered from the ground
| up as a Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and Treacherous Computing (TC)
| platform. Microsoft hides these defects under more benign-sounding names
| like “Digital Rights Management” and “Trusted Computing”. But the fact is
| that Vista is designed to monitor what people do, and in particular to limit
| what they can do with digital media files. These limits obstruct common and
| legally protected uses like sharing news story clips and copying text from
| government documents. Vista has also been designed for easy updating from a
| central authority, so that new restrictions can always be imposed, disabling
| certain features or programs. When a user clicks OK to install Vista,
| Microsoft claims—illegitimately—that she is consenting in advance to this
| control. It is the computational burden of this constant monitoring in
| combination with the requirement that all hardware support these software
| restrictions that is driving many of Vista’s steep hardware requirements,
| leading to the environmental consequences that groups like the Green Party
| and Greenpeace have described.
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http://printsho.station193.com/php/wordpress/archives/2008/07/06/environmental-and-social-justice-groups-unite-in-support-of-free-software/
Filipinos offer open source human rights monitoring software
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| Filipino members of an organization of computer professionals have launched
| open source-based software designed for human rights organizations.
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| [...]
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| CPU has been an advocate of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the
| country.
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| "These CPU projects prove that FOSS is a viable replacement even for very
| specific tools of non-governmental organizations," Bahague said. "The toolkit
| is also our small tribute to many human rights violation victims of the
| current regime as reported by Prof. Philip Alston recently."
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=105962
Yahoo: China's censoring Flickr
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| Popular among a growing class of digital-photo enthusiasts in the
| world's second-largest Internet market, Flickr has not shown photos
| to users in mainland China since last week, amid rumors that Beijing
| took action after images of the Tiananmen Square massacre in early
| June 1989 were posted.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6190356.html
Yahoo stockholders vote against anticensorship proposal
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| Yahoo shareholders voted down a proposal that would have forced
| management to adopt stronger policies regarding government attempts
| to limit Internet access and to curtail freedom of speech in
| countries where Yahoo operates.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=813106908&rid=-50
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