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Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources Select ResourcesChaos Computer Club: Europe's biggest hackers' congress underway in HamburgJanjevic, Darko Article 2015 DW Some 12,000 hackers are challenging the power of Google, Facebook and Youtube to filter information and shape users' view of the world. One of them demonstrated how to hack into VW's cheating software... CopyleftSources Select Resources Encyclopedia Article A play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedo... EFF to Librarian of Congress: Let Car Owners Look Under the HoodWalsh, Kit Article 2014 Electronic Frontier Foundation The reach of copyright law has expanded so far that it now threatens people's ability to repair their own cars and protect them against malware. Yesterday, EFF launched a legal campaign to fend off th... GNU General Public LicenseSources Select Resources Encyclopedia Article A widely used free software license. GNU ProjectSources Select Resources Encyclopedia Article A free software, mass collaboration project. IntelligentSearch.caWebsite 2017 Sources A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make ... Open ContentSources Select Resources Encyclopedia Article Open SourceSources Select Resources Encyclopedia Article Open Source Software: a necessary tool to build our movements | What's LeftArticle 2016 Citizens' Press Software companies are exploitative and other companies should invest in unionized products, condem work to lower wages and act in solidarity with other workers in the software industry. Open-source SoftwareSources Select Resources Encyclopedia Article Computer software that is available in source code form for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits us... OpenStreetMapDatabase OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, ... OpenStreetMap (Wikipedia article)Wikipedia article Article OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availabi... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Connexions This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issue... Protect your freedom and privacy; join us in creating an Internet that's safer from surveillanceRogoff, Zak Article 2013 Free Software Foundation In order to defang surveillance programs like PRISM, we need to stop using centralized systems and come together to build an Internet that's decentralized, trustworthy, and free "as in freedom." Share-alikeSources Select Resources Encyclopedia Article A descriptive term used in the Creative Commons project for copyright licenses which include certain copyleft provisions. Stallman, FOSS and the Adobe NightmareDon't Say Stallman Didn't Warn You! Lopez, Alfredo Article 2013 CounterPunch If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. Free Open Source Software gives control to users, whereas proprietary software gives control to the corporations that own the so... Volkswagen and the Quandary of Hidden CodeBlunden, Bill Article 2015 CounterPunch After Volkswagen's emissions-rigging scandal, Blunden states that this company is not the only one engaging in the practice of secretly modifying technology. Rather, systematic hidden codes are embedd... Where the free software movement went wong-and how to fix it.Finley, Klint Article 2013 Tech Crunch Finley discusses the differences between Free Software and OpenSource software from a political perspective. Who's downloading pirated papers? EveryoneIn rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website Bohannon, John Article 2016 Science Researchers are increasingly turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest largest 'pirate' website for scholarly literature. Sci-Hub is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library. Sources BookshelfYou Are Not a GadgetA Manifesto Lanier, Jaron Book 2010 The internet has spawned a hive mentality, where the crowd takes precedence over the individual. |
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