Knowledge and Technology for a Free Knowledge Society
Advocates of freedom of information and citizen’s rights achieved an overwhelming victory when the European Parliament rejected the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on July 4th. The vote against ACTA by a vast majority of the European Parliament (478 to 39) … Continued
A couple of weeks ago Jan Stedehouder, a Dutch journalist, writer and Open Source advocate, published a blog post (english version here) about the use of Silverlight in the Dutch public education system. Silverlight was Microsoft’s attempt to steal the … Continued
Michel Bauwens writes in the P2P blog about the talk “A Radical Critique of Free Culture” that Geert Lovink presented at re:publica 2010. Many of the participants in the Free Culture Forum that have seen Lovink’s talk are surprised, to … Continued
The Spanish Internet Users Association (Asociación de Internautas) has published a manifest to raise awareness on the most urgent issues regarding European citizens’ rights in the digital arena: the Telecom package, privacy of electronic communications, broadband access to the Internet, … Continued
northxsouth has published an interesting article on the relevance of the lawsuit against The Pirate Bay for the FS community. Their arguments are in line with the ones repeatedly expressed by prominent members of the FSF: the final goal of … Continued
A first draft of this article has been sitting for months in my hard disk. I decided to finish it after reading that Microsoft will offer its operating system and office suite for $3 per machine to developing countries. That … Continued