- Nov 2024
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www.fsf.org www.fsf.org
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Homepage of Free Software Foundation
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Free software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software
Definition basically
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We can't compete with Apple, we can't compete with Google, directly, in the field of resources. What we can eventually do is head count and heart count. We can compete on the ground of ideology because ours is better.
Isn't that sweet?
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- Sep 2024
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softwareengineering.stackexchange.com softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
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GPL "infects" other parts of a system to combat a work-around which was used to violate the software freedom of the user, by firewalling sections of GPL'ed code from the rest of the system.
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The point of GPL licenses is to protect the user of the software, not the developer. If you want "protection" as a developer, use MIT (disclaimer of warranty). GPL "infects" other parts of a system to combat a work-around which was used to violate the software freedom of the user, by firewalling sections of GPL'ed code from the rest of the system. If you don't care about your users' software freedom in the first place, then (L)GPL is the wrong choice.
- goal: protect user rights/freedoms
- non-goal: protect developer rights/freedoms
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www.gnu.org www.gnu.org
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If any of them is missing or inadequate, the program is proprietary (nonfree)
non-free software = proprietary software
missing any of these = non-conformant license (relative to a free software license)
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Users' control over the program requires four essential freedoms.
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The first two freedoms mean each user can exercise individual control over the program
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Either way, they give the program's developer power over the users, power that no one should have.
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When a program respects users' freedom and community, we call it “free software.”
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computer users' freedom—for users to control the software they use, rather than vice versa
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- non-conformant license
- user freedom
- software freedom
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- digital freedom
- non-free software
- proprietary software
- free software
- free software licenses
- empowering individual users
- free software: essential freedoms
- software should be under the user's control
- under my control
- respect
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www.gnu.org www.gnu.orggnu.org1
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www.gnu.org www.gnu.org
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However, the presence of nonfree software in the computer is an obstacle to verifying that the computer is loyal, or making sure it remains so.
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For instance, the AMT functionality in recent Intel processors runs nonfree software that can talk to Intel remotely. Unless disabled, this makes the system disloyal.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Free/Open Licenses Non-free Licenses
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- Aug 2024
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www.gnu.org www.gnu.org
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I'm often asked to describe the “advantages” of free software. But the word “advantages” is too weak when it comes to freedom. Life without freedom is oppression, and that applies to computing as well as every other activity in our lives.
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- Jul 2024
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The problem is not about Open Source or Free Software. The problem is everything else.
Good catch. There's more to the world than just that.
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free software is provided, "without liability". That rule should be enforced.
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When publicly distributed, the open-source code is hidden behind layers of indirection bypassing any packaging/integration effort, relying instead on virtualisation and downloading dependencies on the fly. Thanks to those strategies, corporations could benefit from open source code without any consequence. The open source code is, anyway, mostly hosted and developed on proprietary platforms.
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- Apr 2024
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lots of commercial products because the reality is these often have a better UX and larger user numbers.
State of FLOSS to date.
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- Mar 2024
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hackaday.com hackaday.com
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With the rising popularity of ebooks, it’s more important than ever that we have open hardware and software readers that work on our terms.
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- Jan 2024
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For consumers, the equivalent of "build or buy" could be called "ads or nerds". "Ads" meaning ad-supported services, like consumer Gmail or Facebook. "Nerds" meaning hobbyist services based on free software and commodity hardware.
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- Apr 2023
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Google allowed third parties to build their own Wave services (be it private or commercial) because it wanted the Wave protocol to replace the e-mail protocol.[2][16][17] Initially, Google was the only Wave service provider, but it was hoped that other service providers would launch their own Wave services, possibly designing their own unique web-based clients as is common with many email service providers.
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drewdevault.com drewdevault.com
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is becoming a minority
He said he wants to replace minorities.
Clearly not a fan of diversity of thought.
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- Oct 2022
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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Lots of comments here reminiscent about this restatement of the true purpose of the free software movement:
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- Sep 2022
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openscad.org openscad.orgOpenSCAD1
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- Jul 2022
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scattered-thoughts.net scattered-thoughts.net
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Free as in ...? Points out that freedoms afforded by foss software to the average computer user are effectively the same as proprietary software, because it's too difficult to even find the source and build it, let alone make any changes. Advocates the foss developers should not think only about the things that users are not legally prevented from doing, but about what things they are realistically empowered and supported in doing.
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- May 2022
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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as if the only option we had to eat was factory-farmed fast food, and we didn’t have any way to make home-cooked meals
See also An app can be a home-cooked meal along with this comment containing RMS's remarks with his code-as-recipe metaphor in the HN thread about Sloan's post:
some of you may not ever write computer programs, but perhaps you cook. And if you cook, unless you're really great, you probably use recipes. And, if you use recipes, you've probably had the experience of getting a copy of a recipe from a friend who's sharing it. And you've probably also had the experience — unless you're a total neophyte — of changing a recipe. You know, it says certain things, but you don't have to do exactly that. You can leave out some ingredients. Add some mushrooms, 'cause you like mushrooms. Put in less salt because your doctor said you should cut down on salt — whatever. You can even make bigger changes according to your skill. And if you've made changes in a recipe, and you cook it for your friends, and they like it, one of your friends might say, “Hey, could I have the recipe?” And then, what do you do? You could write down your modified version of the recipe and make a copy for your friend. These are the natural things to do with functionally useful recipes of any kind.
Now a recipe is a lot like a computer program. A computer program's a lot like a recipe: a series of steps to be carried out to get some result that you want. So it's just as natural to do those same things with computer programs — hand a copy to your friend. Make changes in it because the job it was written to do isn't exactly what you want. It did a great job for somebody else, but your job is a different job. And after you've changed it, that's likely to be useful for other people. Maybe they have a job to do that's like the job you do. So they ask, “Hey, can I have a copy?” Of course, if you're a nice person, you're going to give a copy. That's the way to be a decent person.
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- Apr 2022
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www.colbyrussell.com www.colbyrussell.com
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except its codebase is completely incomprehensible to anyone except the original maintainer. Or maybe no one can seem to get it to build, not for lack of trying but just due to sheer esotericism. It meets the definition of free software, but how useful is it to the user if it doesn't already do what they want it to, and they have no way to make it do so?
Kartik made a similar remark in an older version of his mission page:
Open source would more fully deliver on its promise; are the sources truly open if they take too long to grok, so nobody makes the effort?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140903010656/http://akkartik.name/about
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- Mar 2022
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alarmingdevelopment.org alarmingdevelopment.org
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Open source is the ideology that all software should be free.
It's weird that in 2021 this canard associated with conflating libre and gratis is still showing up.
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www.lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr
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Dans la science ouverte, une publication reste un tout que l’on ne modifie pas. Donc, les REL se rapprochent plutôt de la logique de l’Open Source.
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- Jan 2022
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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Unfortunately, the part that deals with SOAP transformations is not free.
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- Oct 2021
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Else, H. (2021). Giant, free index to world’s research papers released online. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02895-8
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certificates.creativecommons.org certificates.creativecommons.org
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Open source software is cited as the first domain where networked open sharing produced a tangible benefit
The phrase should be:
The Free Software and Open-source movements were the first domains where networked open sharing produced a tangible benefit.
Why?
Free Software movement started in 1983.
Open-source movement started in 1998.
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- Mar 2021
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blog.izs.me blog.izs.me
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Nothing about the Unix Philosophy explicitly relates to a culture of software sharing. However, it should be no mystery that it comes from the software community where we argue at length about the best way to make our programs properly Free. Software that is developed according to these principles is easier to share, reuse, repurpose, and maintain.
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- Feb 2021
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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A free cultural work (free content) is, according to the definition of Free Cultural Works, one that has no significant legal restriction on people's freedom to:
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- Jan 2021
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At work, I cannot maintain this project. At home, I'd rather spend time with my children and on projects that I'm currently passionate about.
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www.gnu.org www.gnu.orggnu.org1
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If it is powerful and reliable, that means it serves them better.
software is often oriented towards performance as primary (if not only) criterium, it is developed through a performance-centric lens.
other cultural, social, ethical factors are ignored or not taken into account
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- Nov 2020
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madewithsvelte.com madewithsvelte.com
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Why do we need this proprietary service?
So they can track us when we go to: http://svelte-autocomplete.surge.sh/?ref=madewithsvelte.com ?
Rather than bookmark/use https://madewithsvelte.com/svelte-autocomplete I would prefer to just use https://github.com/elcobvg/svelte-autocomplete as the canonical URL for this project.
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madewithsvelte.com madewithsvelte.com
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Express - 19 $ 🏃♀️ Skip the Review Queue 🕒 Published in 3 days 💌 Full Customer Support 💚 Support the team
Wow, after seeing how this site works, I don't like much like it anymore.
Esp. this below:
Choose your preferred publish date - 9 $ Feature your project on top for 14 days and get an additional tweet - 19 $
I hope there is/will be soon a more open/free alternative (like the "awesome" lists that use GitHub PRs instead of an opaque/proprietary submisison form).
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- Oct 2020
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Prior to version 6.0, BitTorrent was written in Python, and was free software.
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- Aug 2020
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Stallman has also stated that considering the practical advantages of free software is like considering the practical advantages of not being handcuffed, in that it is not necessary for an individual to consider practical reasons in order to realize that being handcuffed is undesirable in itself.
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Free software thus differs from: proprietary software, such as Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides or iWork from Apple. Users cannot study, change, and share their source code. freeware, which is a category of proprietary software that does not require payment for basic use.
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GitLab is moving all development for both GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition into a single codebase. The current gitlab-ce repository will become a read-only mirror, without any proprietary code. All development is moved to the current gitlab-ee repository, which we will rename to just gitlab in the coming weeks. As part of this migration, issues will be moved to the current gitlab-ee project.
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How does the licensing work in this new setup? Everything in the ee/ directory is proprietary. Everything else is free and open source software. If your merge request does not change anything in the ee/ directory, the process of contributing changes is the same as when using the gitlab-ce repository.
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- Jun 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Han, H., & Dawson, K. J. (2020). JASP (Software) [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/67dcb
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- May 2020
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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RAND terms exclude intangible goods which the producer may decide to distribute at no cost and where third parties may make further copies. Take for example a software package that is distributed at no cost and to which the developer wants to add support for a video format which requires a patent licence. If there is a licence which requires a tiny per-copy fee, the software project will not be able to avail of the licence. The licence may be called "(F)RAND", but the modalities discriminate against a whole category of intangible goods such as free software[11] and freeware.[12]
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The Free Software Foundation suggests the term "uniform fee only" (UFO) to reflect that such "(F)RAND" licenses are inherently discriminatory.
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- Mar 2020
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Skype is a clear example: when one person uses the non-free Skype client software, it requires another person to use that software too – thus surrendering their freedoms along with yours. (Google Hangouts have the same problem.) We should refuse to use such programs even briefly, even on someone else's computer.
which should be an alternative solution?
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Both non-free software and SaaSS can spy on the user, shackle the user, and even attack the user.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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The free software movement is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedom to run the software, to study and change the software, and to redistribute copies with or without changes.
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- Dec 2019
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www.howtogeek.com www.howtogeek.com
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There are thousands of to-do list apps out there, in part because no system works perfectly for everyone. I’m not going to say todo.txt is the exception, and that it will work for everyone, because that would be crazy. But todo.txt is the most flexible tool I’ve come across. In part, this is because of the sheer number of clients available, but also because the simplicity lends itself to improvisation.
First time I've seen improvisation used like this.
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newpipe.schabi.org newpipe.schabi.org
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Why NewPipe is free
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Our goal is to make the internet a more free (libre) place and open it for everyone
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- Aug 2019
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github.com github.com
- Jul 2016
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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“the free software movement does this.” And again, I have to say: not quite.
True. But some of us are saying something slightly different. The free software movement shares some of those principles and those go back to a rather specific idea about personal/individual agency.
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Convivial tools should be accessible — free, even.
Free as in (neoliberal) speech.
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The computer programming the child.”
Stallman often uses a similar idea to condemn proprietary software. Rushkoff proposes a similar alternative. Should we choose the red pill or the blue pill?
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- Jan 2016
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www.talkingnewmedia.com www.talkingnewmedia.com
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unlike Adobe DPS, Inkling, or some other would-be competitors…it’s free.
And unlike Calibre, it’s “free with purchase” and not “free as in speech” or even, really, “free as in beer”.
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- Dec 2015
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if the group should decide to fork Moodle together
Contrary to Free Software, Open Source has special affordances for forking, even if the forks become commercial.
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alliance of Moodle service providers that currently collaborate on Moodle-related projects of mutual interest
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- Nov 2015
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ma.tt ma.tt
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The four freedoms don’t limit us as creators — they open possibilities for us as creators and consumers. When you apply them to software, you get Linux, Webkit/Chrome, and WordPress. When you apply them to medicine, you get the Open Genomics Engine, which is accelerating cancer research and bringing us closer to personalized treatment. When you apply them to companies, you get radically geographically distributed, results-based organizations like Automattic. When you apply them to events you get TEDx, Barcamp, and WordCamp. When you apply them to knowledge, you get Wikipedia.
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as of December 2013, 21% of websites are powered by WordPress. One-fifth of the web is built with a tool that anyone can use, change, or improve, whenever and however they want (even more when you count other open source projects
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B2 was ultimately abandoned by its creator. If I’d been using it under a proprietary license, that would have been the end — for me, and all its other users. But because we had freedoms 2 and 3, Mike Little and I were able to use the software as a foundation
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I’ve spent a third of my life building software based on Stallman’s four freedoms, and I’ve been astonished by the results. WordPress wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for those freedoms, and it couldn’t have evolved the way it has. WordPress was based on a program called B2/cafelog that predated it by two years. I was using B2 because it had freedoms 0 and 1
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www.gnu.org www.gnu.orggnu.org1
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The Free Software Foundation's definition of free software, originally expressed by Richard Stallman. It is free as in free speech, not as in free beer. Software offered for a fee can still be free. A program is free software if the users have four essential freedoms:
0. Run the program as you wish, for any purpose.<br> 1. Study the source code, and change it as you please.<br> 2. Copy and distribute the original program.<br> 3. Copy and distribute modified versions.
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walterbender.github.io walterbender.github.io
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Turtle blocks
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- Oct 2015
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www.cultofpedagogy.com www.cultofpedagogy.com
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It’s free.
Free as in “tracked”. Sure, Google signed the privacy pledged and they don’t use data to advertise directly to students. But there are many loopholes. As rms makes very clear, GAfE is the exact opposite of Free Software. It’s “not having to pay for your own enslavement”.
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- Sep 2015
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www.jonobacon.org www.jonobacon.org
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freedom is also a deeply personal thing.
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