I’m a long-time supporter and enthusiast of the FSF but I’m taken aback by what looks to me to be dangerous misdirection on the part of the FSF and I would like a reply, even if short, to my concern:
Apple’s general use of DRM is a mixed bag. In being a company that strives to [...]
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The DNS system maps names to IP addresses (and back again). A somewhat more mathematically complex mapping could link geometric shapes on a map with a URL via GPS. Think about it: go into a shopping center and instantly have a map of stores, locations of food, bathroom, and any other useful information. Mappings could [...]
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David Coursey over at PC World has written of the recently revealed and much hyped Nokia N900 that he “[would like] to see … Nokia licensing Palm’s webOS, used on the Pre” for the device. I couldn’t disagree more.
While Palm’s WebOS is a promising and mature platform already familiar to Pre owners, Nokia’s N900 is [...]
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Tagged: android, FOSS, free software, maemo, n900, nokia, palm, pre, smartphones, software, Technology
I’m an iPhone 3G user nowhere near finished with his two-year contract and I’d like to pay the new customer price for the iPhone 3G S, but I can’t, and that’s fair. Here’s why:
The iPhone doesn’t cost about $300, it costs about $600. When you sign up for a two-year contract, AT&T is subsidizing the [...]
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Open source has long been thought of as the rise of the computer literate, the programmers of the world, working in harmony to create solutions against proprietary and monopolistic companies: building a better world together, but I would argue this isn’t the full view.
The open source we see in news headlines, making splashes in the [...]
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Tagged: apple, business, ibm, linux, novell, open source, programming
The EFF is reporting the new buttonless iPod Shuffle 3G uses a form of DRM authentication with its new headphone specification, necessitated with Apple’s decision to move all player controls off the device itself and onto the earbuds. The EFF claims this is entirely unnecessary and will allow Apple to invoke the DMCA against third-party [...]
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Tagged: apple, drm, earbuds, eff, headphones, ipod, market control, quality control, shuffle