Anonymous telephony and the internet
I had an interesting conversation with Daniel Olivera from Ututo last week, although he perhaps didn’t perceive it as that. Mostly it involved trying to get some video feeds working from here and Italy...
View ArticleHow the net was lost
Those who currently struggle to maintain what is called “Net Neutrality” on the internet I think have taken too limited an approach to their struggle. What they ask is to maintain an existing status...
View ArticleSome comments on the Gartner report on FOSS on Microsoft Windows
I had heard about the latest Gartner report claiming that Microsoft Windows will become the dominant platform for "Open Source" (and free) software in the future. While there are certainly a number of...
View ArticleThin clients and network desktops
I read an interesting article in LinuxJournal on setting up thin clients recently. I have always liked the idea of having a server and using X in one of the ways it was originally meant to be used, but...
View ArticleInsecure by design
CALEA (Computer Assistance Law Enforcement) is quietly in the background of current news again, because the FBI is pushing congress to mandate that all future routing equipment manufactured will...
View ArticleThe GNU "Lesser" General Public License gets some love
With the introduction of the GNU GPLv3, the GNU Lesser General Public License (L-GPL) has seen much less attention. This has changed with the recent GPLv3 conference in Barcelona, and I think it has...
View ArticleThe secret of GNU/Linux desktop adoption
Having been engineering director at one company that became public, and a founder and CTO of another, as well as a long time professional software engineer working at such companies as Matushita...
View ArticleThe GNU GPL - a software license for yesterday, today and tomorrow
With the draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) have come many interesting comments, although not all of which I have found positive. While I understand proprietary vendors have...
View ArticleThe state of the swag at LinuxWorld San Francisco
While at LinuxWorld, I was contemplating how IBM's multi-billion dollar investment in free software has born fruit in the form of their hard sought after two inch rubber tux, when I met up with Robin...
View ArticleCopyright, bad faith, and software licensing
Robin Miller recently published a story on Newsforge about "Stan"[1], as an example of a situation that demonstrates proprietary software is a danger to business continuity. I found this story...
View ArticleSecure VoIP calling, free software, and the right to privacy
All free nations in the world today recognize certain basic principles, such as freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the freedom of privacy. These values that we all share were articulated by and...
View ArticleThat darn startup sound (Knoppix vs Vista)
Imagine you are in the boardroom, asked by the president of the company to fix his laptop during a critical presentation. You reach for your handy knoppix on a flash, and set it off to boot, so ready...
View ArticleFrom freedom to slavery; a week of two distros
While gNewSense enjoys its initial introduction as a fully free as in freedom distribution, it seems at the same time an existing GNU/Linux distribution has turned to slavery. Excuse me a moment, while...
View ArticleLiberating Verizon FiOS using free operating systems
As we prepared to open a new Freedom Technology Center in a rehabilitated site in New Jersey, I came to learn that Verizon was capable of offering fiber service at our location. Officially, they only...
View ArticleLooking the gift horse in the mouth
I believe, by now, everyone has heard of Microsoft's attempt to bribe bloggers by giving them free laptops running Vista. More amusing is that, in response to the publicity they received when they were...
View ArticleIntegrated telephony and the roadmap to Bayonne 3.0
I have noticed many of our sister free software projects have recently incorporated features commonly associated with Bayonne. Asterisk 1.4, for example, introduces a native scripting language. The...
View ArticleMicrosoft the copyright infringer
When we consider the situation Microsoft finds itself in with regard to the GNU General Public License (GPL), it is important to consider how one determines when someone has accepted the GNU GPL and,...
View ArticleThe software protection racket
Again in the case of Intellivision, much like so many other of its “partners” (including Sendo), Microsoft demonstrates that their business model is based primarily on fraudulent and deceptive business...
View ArticleSecure VoIP, GNU SIP Witch, and replacing Skype with free software
For the last few years I had occasionally been working on what is called the GNU Telephony Secure Calling initiative. The GNU Telephony Secure Calling initiative was itself originally formed...
View ArticleFree Software economics for Indigenous Nations
Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving (Russell Means)Some of the surviving nations in North...
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