a GNU step forth
Last weekend I took the chance of once again installing a whole load of GNUStep packages to my Debian desktop machine. That’s some sort of ritual I’ve been doing almost regularly now for quite some...
View Articleich bin ein GNU
Seit reichlich zehn Jahren bin ich jetzt schon GNU-Enthusiast, und irgendwie merke ich gelegentlich, daß sich gewisse Diskussionen über GNU, GNU/Linux und freie Software insgesamt regelmäßig...
View Articlecultural technology
After once again booting into the Copy4Freedom GNU/Linux Live CD this evening, I am once again ending thinking about technology and its role in culture and society and, probably this is a place as good...
View ArticleGNU/Solaris gaining speed
Quite some time has passed since SUN Microsystems announced to release core components of their Solaris operating under an open-source compatible licensing, thus opening doors wide for the Open Source...
View ArticlePetition für standardisierte Dateiformate
Wie Pro-Linux; berichtet, haben sich engagierte Zeitgenossen aufgerafft, eine Petition ins Leben zu rufen mit dem Hintergrund, die Verwendung offener und standardisierter Dateiformate im elektronischen...
View ArticleSAP, Open-Source und “Visionäre”
Wenn man sich die aktuellen Kommentare von SAP-Produktentwicklungs-Chef Shai Agassi zum Thema OpenSource so durchliest, weiß man einmal mehr, wozu Lizenzen wie die GNU GPL notwendig und für freie...
View ArticleFree Software as a social movement
zmag.org has an excellent, verbose interview with GNU mastermind and Free Software advocate Richard Stallman. Probably not bearing much news to those who are a little into the whole GNU movement, it...
View ArticleWindows 10, GNU and actual “open-ness”?
Business as usual, one could say… All along with the announcement of Microsoft Windows 10 being released, I found an FSF statement on Windows 10 in my inbox, boiling down to what I by now consider the...
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Proposing a GNU Social Network Manifesto?
Reading through the GNU Free Software philosophy once again, I wonder whether, right now in the current disputes surrounding Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon and the quest for a more “open” social network...
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