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Top 10 technologies to beat tyranny
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| Shaun Nichols: When people like Richard
| Stallman and Linus Torvalds created the pillars
| of the open-source software movement, they did
| so with the fundamental belief that software
| and digital data should be open and accessible
| to all users. This is, of course, quite
| conflicting with the basic tenants of
| tyrannical rule.
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| One of the great things about open-source
| software is that it can be opened up and
| tinkered with by just about anyone who wants
| to. Additionally, open-source tools and
| applications can be more or less shared freely
| on the web. This allows people who may
| otherwise not have access to the resources to
| both use the software and learn how to build
| and tinker with it themselves.
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http://www.crn.com.au/News/165470,top-10-technologies-to-beat-tyranny.aspx
Maven gets more restrictive
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| Until recently Maven allowed for two ways to
| upload an open source project to the central
| repository. One could file a request for a
| manual addition which would take forever to get
| fixed (the last time a batch of manual requests
| was processed happened two months ago) or,
| alternatively, one could setup an rsync
| repository and request an auto-sync -- which
| was the preferred way. The auto-sync procedure
| was covered in this blog entry by Torsten Cudt.
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http://www.javaworld.com/community/?q=node/3959
Recent:
U.S. To Costa Rica: No Sugar Access Without Copyright Reform
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| Reports from Costa Rica indicate that final
| approval of the Central American Free Trade
| Agreement with the United States is
| languishing in the Legislative Assembly due
| to concerns over the copyright provisions.
| The CAFTA copyright provisions are similar
| to those found in the other major U.S.
| trade agreements concluded in recent years:
| DMCA-style protections, ISP liability, and
| copyright term extension are all part of
| the package.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4697/125/
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