Recently, I purchased "The FairTax Book" out of curiosity and found that it was actually an interesting book to read.
As the name of the book suggests, it deals with the FairTax legislation (HR 25/S 25), a bill which is sponsored by Congressman John Linder. This nonpartisan legislation is …
read moreI figured the best way to finish tonight's recent anti-DRM related posts would be with a link to an excellent book entitled "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity".
It is written by Lawrence Lessig and explains how the short-sighted …
read moreDefectiveByDesign is organizing some protests (or actions as they put it) that will be coinciding with the Windows Vista launch parties that are going to be held in New York City.
If you are going to attend, you are asked that you obey the law and respect private property while …
read moreI just finished reading an excellent article regarding Digital Rights Management (DRM) on Polishlinux.
The article, entitled "DRM, Vista, and your rights", gives an readers an easy to understand and well thought out view on why DRM is harmful to consumers and what they can do to protect themselves from …
read moreLinuxDevices has posted a interview with Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's executive director.
The interview talks about the merging of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and Free Standard Group (FSG) and what they plan to do in the near future. It is definitely worth a read in my opinion …
read moreJorge Arellano Cid recently announced that Dillo, a small light-weight GTK+ web browser written in C, has been frozen due to the lack of funds and manpower.
The Dillo project's web site will be updated with an official statement regarding the situation after he is able to get back in …
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