Archive for the ‘Free software’ Category
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Ubuntu 7.10 (codename "Gutsy Gibbon"), released last month, is for me the first really usable Linux, which is saying a lot considering I've made a serious attempt to switch to Linux about once a year for the last six years. The last 3 of those attempts have been with Ubuntu, ...
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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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