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Free as in Freedom as well as to Free as in Beer

I just came across Aaron J Siego’s post in his blog about the difference between free as in beer versus free as in freedom, and how the open source community has not done enough to espouse the benefits of the second form of freedom.

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A Comment on Politics

With the UK general election upon us, I decided to reflect on my feelings about politics in general, and the problem I have about how to vote. Although I am no longer a “young person” who feels disconnected with Politics – I can well understand why they might feel totally disenchanted with polititians.

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A New Vision for the Desktop

Introduction

As I start to write this article at the end of March 2005 I have in my head a partially formed vision for how to improve the usability of the Personal Computer Desktop. I will use this article so slowly explore that vision and try and turn it into a complete concept. I will do that in stages, so that ultimately this becomes a multipage specification for the complete vision of a new version of the way the PC desktop operates. As I publish each update, I will reset the date of the article so that it reappears at the top of the list of articles on this site.

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