The Microsoft hasn’t made the world better, it just made Microsoft richer along with several other companies who are benefiting from proprietary software : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm
We need a real alternative, not Apple products - not Adobe or any of the companies who are monopolizing the right to distribute software. You believe it’s ok ? Think of […]
The canadian government want to amend the Canadian copyright law with the bill C-61. While I agree that the old law was aging there’s no reason to make it that restrictive.
The bill goes against piracy, fair enough and good try. Now try to transform it, because digital sharing of electronic art, otherwise known as “piracy” […]
Everybody knows I’m Ubuntu user, and like most Ubuntu users I got excited by the release of the latest installment of the most popular Linux distribution. Ubuntu is not the goal it’s only the accidental best medium for Software Freedom to take on the proprietary world, I’m saying it but Mark Shuttleworth the father of […]
Documents are the base of the modern social life, you need them at birth time, when you’re looking for a job or when you simply pass this memo.
Suffice not to free the tool to produce them we must also free their product the document, the real reason of why we use computers. HTML works all […]
There’s a strong tendency in administration of justice and law to make people pay to have access to legal documents. There’s an american upseted by the appopriation of the publication of rulings by private companies and government, who are doing a lot of money by selling public information :
This week, Carl Malamud posted free electronic […]
That’s a good news for everyone who’s using office suites:
The Open Document foundation finally get ODF (open document format) to be approuved by the International Standard Organization (ISO). Read an article about it, in eweek.com
Read the Original Press Release (PDF)
Why is it good? Because it is the promise that our documents can live longer […]
There’s a news going around that said internal desktop at IBM would not go to Microsoft VISTA, because they cancelled their contract with Microsoft.
Altough one may think that IBM is some sort of Open Source shop, it is not, they are doing FOSS business because they can make money out of it and they see […]
