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FRhack in live !
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| Below, youâll find the live report of FRhack international conference
| in BesanÃon, for the first day. But here is a snall overview of the
| contents of this conference (in french, sorry !), ripped from the local
| news...
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http://bruno.kerouanton.net/blog/2009/09/06/frhack-in-live/
The Stallman Paradox
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| Until society can resolve what I will call for the first time the
| âStallman Paradoxâ, where learning and access enabling technologies,
| such as for example digital books, conversely disables the freedom to
| read and hence more than negates the actual benefits of said access,
| the rush to embrace all digital libraries and textbooks is a rush to a
| new dark ages.
|
| [...]
|
| The logical solution is one where the right to read and think, and to
| share knowledge, is not made into a good that only few will be able to
| experience. In the European dark age, education was an exclusive
| privilege enabled only for a very few. While most societies today now
| recognize that universal education is both a right and a need, the use
| of mandated digitally restricted e-book solutions for education could
| well return societies to a new dark age.
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http://planet.gnu.org/gnutelephony/?p=5
The Freedomware Project Manifesto
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| In addition, large software corporations often inhibit sharing of ideas
| by not allowing the user to share the software with other people.
| Software patents exist in order to prevent individuals from outdoing
| the large organizations who wish to retain that âcompetitive edge.â
| Having the source code was out of the question, and woe be unto those
| who shared copies with other people, despite the fact that the software
| in question was vastly overpriced. This is why organizations such as
| the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative exists.
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http://www.freedomwareproject.org/index.html
Related:
Freedomware?
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| Freedomware is not intended as a term to replace Free Software or Open
Source
| Software aka FOSS, FLOSS. These terms have their niche and place in
society.
| They are well established and we are all better for it.
|
| [...]
|
| We are not reinventing the wheel nor are we asking that Freedomware be
used
| in lieu of Free Software or Open Source Software. We are after all,
just
| scratching an itch! While simultaneously filling the communications gap
that
| exists between the developers and the rest of the world.
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http://thetuxproject.com/freedomware_defined
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