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Debating the Best License
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| The âwinnerâ was the GPL, as debated by Matt Asay - ironic
| considering Mr. Asay seems to disparage the GPL quite
| frequently of late. His strongest points seemed to be two-fold:
| one, the popularity of the GPL is evidence of its strength;
| two, it fosters âtrustâ where other licenses can not.
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http://www.the-source.com/2009/09/debating-the-best-license/
Turtles all the way down to the source code: FSF's Boston
Software Freedom Day event to feature Walter Bender
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| Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 -- On Saturday, September 19th,
| Boston's casual free software users and the technologically
| curious will gather together for a Software Freedom Day event
| hosted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
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http://www.fsf.org/news/software-freedom-day-boston-2009
Recent:
Sugar Labs' Walter Bender on the Sweetness of Collaborative Learning
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| He has founded Sugar Labs, a foundation that seeks to advance development of
| Sugar, the user interface originally designed for OLPC.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63354.html
Linux start-up Sugar Labs in informal talks with four laptop makers
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| Sugar Laboratories, Inc. is now in informal discussions with four ultra-low
| cost laptop manufacturers about the possibility of running its Linux software
| on their hardware, according to the new company's founder.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Linux_startup_Sugar_Labs_in_informal_talks_with_four_laptop_makers/1211467857
http://tinyurl.com/3ereo6
Walter Bender Discusses Sugar Labs Foundation
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| I can only speculate as to what was meant by the
| characterization âopen-source fundamentalistâ. I suppose it was said in the
| mistaken belief that I am more interested in advancing the cause of free and
| open-source software (FOSS) than improving the tools for learning. In terms
| of learning, I am steadfast in my belief that we need to be fostering the
| appropriation of knowledge, not just access to it. We should provide tools
| that skew the odds towards appropriation, without being proscriptive. For
| example, you could give a child a book as a PDF file or in a Wiki format. In
| both cases, the child can read the book. But the choice of representation
| does make a difference: the chances that the child will add a comment to a
| PDF file, which is read-only, are much less than to a Wiki page, which has
| built-in affordances for annotation.
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http://www.openeducation.net/2008/06/03/walter-bender-discusses-sugar-labs-foundation/
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