I have thought about the question "What is Free Culture?" for some time. Benjamin Mako Hill’s "Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software Movement" encouraged me to write this weblog entry. Basically i agree with Benjamin Mako Hill. While we have a clear definition for Free Software nobody knows the basic Read more »
Could it be a crime to wrap your pass in aluminum foil? It seems like the answer is “yes” if you are on the WSIS and the pass contains a RFID chip. Read more on Bruce Perens blog entry Friday, November 18: Richard Stallman Gets in Trouble with UN Security for Wearing a Tin-Foil Hat
“Knowledge of Future Culture” is the title of a interesting paper, released for the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis. Many known people are part of this paper, e.g. Lawrence Lessig, Richard Stallman an many others.
Through Nat Friedman’s blog i have found Larry Lessig’s free culture presentation. I think both the presentation style and the content is really impressive. Sadly, while Larry Lessig speaks about free culture and free code the only way to get the presentation is by using proprietary and patented formats like flash, mp3 and powerpoint-slides. Larry Read more »
Auf der diesjährigen Internationalen Funkausstellung (IFA) ist der neue TV-Standard HDTV, welcher das PAL System ablösen soll, dass große Thema. HDTV bietet eine deutlich bessere Bildqualität, was sich am Anfang sehr positiv anhört hat aber auch seine Schattenseiten. “HD-ready”-Geräte haben nämlich auch den Intel Kopierschutz HDCP eingebaut, d.h., dass in Zukunft der Sender entscheiden kann Read more »
i have created a small fellowship button for my homepage, maybe you like it too. The button is quite simple, but for a first try i think it’s ok. Of course everyone can use and/or modify this button.
Today i have looked at www.gnufriends.org for the first time since some months and i was really confused… my browser sends me to www.fsfe.org? What happens? Does gnufriends.org no longer exists? Was this always a site from the FSFE or why gnufriends.org now redirect to fsfe.org?