Tim Jordan

University of Sussex, Head of the School of Media, Film and Music

T.R.Jordan@sussex.ac.uk

LibreOffice: time to reconsider Open Source and power?

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[Cross-posted from DSC@KCL Blog] Having been a longtime OpenOffice.org user I was a little surprised recently when installing the Ubuntu flavour of Gnu/Linux to find that something called LibreOffice was the default office suite. It looked remarkably similar to OpenOffice.org (which I noticed because I knew exactly where the place to turn off autocompletion of […]

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Information War?: Lulzsec, Anonymous, Wikileaks and Stuxnet

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Just after Wikileaks was being refused services from corporations like Mastercard and Amazon, following the leaking of thousands of USA State department documents, the group Anonymous rocketed into public view as it attacked back.  Co-ordinating denial of service attacks against many who were refusing services previously provided to Wikileaks, Anonymous came into worldwide prominence. In […]

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