Recently Matthias Kirschner, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), has renewed his critique of talking about open source software or open licenses in relation to the encryption software called Qabel. He emphasizes that its Qabel Public License (QaPL) is “neither approved by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as a Free Software license nor […]
It seems that the pot is starting (or have already started) to boil over. The role of academic publishing houses in the dissemination of knowledge has attracted the attention of people outside academia. And, certainly, it has attracted the attention of our blog. Mary Gray, Chris Boulton, and Zachary McDowell have chimed in with some important ideas about the philosophical […]
I’ve been quite interested in the kerfuffle that Ubuntu has taken since the introduction of Unity. To put it mildly, it’s been controversial. Before I start with my observations, I should make a disclosure of why I am so interested in the commotion. First and foremost, you may have noticed that the fonts we use here at […]