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Author Archives: dvdjaco

The European Parliament kills ACTA
6 Jul 2012

The European Parliament kills ACTA

by dvdjaco | posted in: Uncategorized | 0

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

acta, copyright
Open standards in Dutch public education
4 Oct 2011

Open standards in Dutch public education

by dvdjaco | posted in: Uncategorized | 0

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

education, open st
The Free Culture Forum is not the Gratis Culture Forum
27 May 2010

The Free Culture Forum is not the Gratis Culture Forum

by dvdjaco | posted in: Uncategorized | 0

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

free culture
Civil Rights, Net universality and neutrality
21 May 2009

Civil Rights, Net universality and neutrality

by dvdjaco | posted in: Uncategorized | 0

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

net neutrality, spain
Why the free software community cares about The Pirate Bay
21 May 2009

Why the free software community cares about The Pirate Bay

by dvdjaco | posted in: Uncategorized | 0

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

Free as in free milk. Microsoft’s business practices in developing countries
13 Aug 2007

Free as in free milk. Microsoft’s business practices in developing countries

by dvdjaco | posted in: Uncategorized | 0

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

developing countries, free software, microsoft

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