Saturday, October 27th, 2007
RMS (Richard “Not Milhous” Stallman) has always been insistent that the important virtues of “free software” are ethical, not practical or technical. As best as I can surmise, RMS’s ethical claims boil down to:
Society is better off with a non-proprietary software infrastructure because it protects users against software that does ...
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
A while ago, I proposed a website for funneling donations from 'content consumers' to 'content producers', and it turns out others have a similar idea and are doing something about it but framing the idea as 'tipping' rather than 'donating'. Nick Szabo, who wrote the best early assessment of why ...
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