Archive for category Free Software
Free Technology Academy
Posted by Jason in Free Software on February 3, 2010
Saw this on reddit today. The Free Technology Academy is a “joint initiative from several educational institutes in various countries” that attempts to offer an online masters-level course in Free technologies. One of the cool things is that all materials are used by the FTA are available under Free and Copyleft licenses. (Check out the 545-page [...]
Copyright Assignment
Posted by Jason in Copyright, Free Software on February 2, 2010
Copyright Assignment is a tricky topic in the FLOSS world. The first time copyright assignment drew my attention was in how Novell’s go-oo hypocritically uses it as FUD against Open Office, and – of course – how ignorant and/or malicious mono apologists used it as a talking point. Today, I read a very interesting post [...]
FSFE awarded
Posted by Jason in Free Software on February 2, 2010
The FSFE has been awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal for contributing to the “development and establishment of rules for good global governance.” Congratulations!
The Free Software Way
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Red Hat on January 27, 2010
Wowiee wow wow! So happy to see this! Red Hat’s new site opensource.com has a brilliant article up entitled “The free software way“. Written by Richard Fontana, the Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel at Red Hat, it eloquently hits on a number of my favorite points. The term “open source” originated in a 1998 [...]
Checking in on the GNOME Foundation
Posted by Jason in Free Software on January 27, 2010
It’s been a little over a month since the initial kerfluffle about GNOME and GNU. In that first run-up we basically had a couple of the usual chuckleheads waging war against a flimsly constructed straw man in hopes of discrediting RMS/FSF/Free Software with a secondary effect of promoting “Open Source” as the preferred term (and [...]
The Lantern: WTF?
Posted by Jason in Free Software on January 25, 2010
I really, really hope this is just poor reporting: Alek Rollyson, a third-year in information systems and the club’s president, said there is a difference between free software and open source software. Free software is like “free beer, or free as in it doesn’t cost me anything,” he said. Open source software is not just [...]
OSFA: Guidelines for Government
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Standardization on January 20, 2010
Open Source For America is a coalition organized to support and promote Open Source Software use by the US Government. (They are a bit inconsistent in deciding if it is “Open Source” or “Free and Open Source” – both terms are used, the former much more than the latter). One of the strongest arguments against proprietary [...]
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