Tag Archives: Free Culture
Government for the People Makes You Special
“It turns out that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group for organisations including the MPAA and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade Representative to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India for its “Special 301 watchlist” because they … Continue reading
WordPress Declaration of Independence
The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to … Continue reading
Counterfeit Intellectual Property
What’s interesting is that there’s clearly a collateral campaign underway to support ACTA by hammering on the wickedness of counterfeiting – allowing the bait and switch game to be played again. Here’s an example:
Canada trails far behind the United States, United … Continue reading
Free and Open Source from the Roots Up
“Free and open source from the roots up. “Open source” can be much more than a development methodology. For me, it also constitutes a world view that upends institutionalized notions of competitive advantage that saw their apex in the twentieth … Continue reading
Develop diverse widespread community commitment
Chris Messina in response to his own post (with a little help from Richard MacManus):
Pirates don’t steal digitalized information
The term piracy when referring to theft of digitalized information is ridiculous. Piracy is a vile act involving theft, kidnapping and murder still committed today in the world’s oceans, and seeming on the increase, it has nothing to do with … Continue reading