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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: Free/Open-Source Software Community Networking/Computing <comnet-www_-at-_flora.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:56:44 -0500 (EST)
I'm glad to see a growing number of articles making the connections
between Free/Libre and Open Source Software
<http://www.flora.ca/floss.shtml> and other network-based
socio-political-economic movements. I am forwarding a relevant
article/link for people to read and think about.
I do hope that more people opposed to nCEG also recognize the importance
of adopting FLOSS (both the software and the philosophies behind it) as
being critical to this.
It is simply not enough to be against something --- you need to
articulate, support and adopt alternatives!
If you want a short-form "buzz-phrase" method to understand the importance
of FLOSS to global socio-political-economic movements:
Given that: not sharing "information is power"
and also that: "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
and also that: "code is law" in the modern electronically connected
world (Lawrence Lessig, etc)
Therefore: not sharing information is corruption
and: not sharing code is corruption
---
Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses,
VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen
and not a third party. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 16:39:03 +0000
From: Chris Croome <chris@croomeNOSPAM.net>
Reply-To: list-en@oekonux.org
To: list-en@oekonux.org
Subject: [ox-en] The Rise of Open Source, Network-Based Movements
Hi
This is an interesting article on the F15 global demonstrations:
The Rise of Open Source, Network-Based Movements
by Graham Caswell - caswell@indigoNOSPAM.ie
Growing Another World
The vast, coordinated protests that occurred worldwide last Saturday
were just the latest manifestation of the power of the loose,
non-hierarchial, evolutionary movements that have been enabled by
the development of the Internet. And this fundamental social change
is just beginning.
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=29627
Chris
--
http://chris.croome.net/
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