-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Open and Accessible
,----[ Quote ]
| One of the many things I love about working
| in the world of open source is that this
| field is much more about passion than
| profit. Think of how many extra hours you or
| your friends and colleagues put in on nights
| and weekends (and occasional holidays). You
| don't do that for just a "Job".
|
| [...]
|
| But when I step back and look at all the
| individual pieces we contribute – like when
| Emma takes the time to teach some elderly
| people how to get a handle on their gadgets,
| or when ZaReason works with volunteers to
| refurbish and donate 16 computers to Kids on
| Computers, or The Apache Foundation works
| with partners to provide live streaming for
| FREE to people who can't make it to
| ApacheCon US this year, or Google's amazing
| outreach with the Google Summer of Code – I
| see that our small parts are actually
| increasing accessibility in a big way.
`----
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/ROSE-Blog-Rikki-s-Open-So...e-Excha
Recent:
RMS and His Magic Bread
,----[ Quote ]
| Imagine that you are in a world where people are starving. Imagine you have
| some bread, and you were confronted with starving people: most would feel a
| compulsion to share that bread. But imagine now that you had RMS's special
| kind of bread that could be eaten once or a million times: how much greater
| would the duty to share that bread with the hungry be? And how much more
| despicable would the person who refused to share that bread be?
|
| Translate this now to the realm of ideas. We are surrounded by people hungry
| for knowledge, and we do possess that magic bread - digital copies of
| knowledge that can be shared infinitely without diminishing it. Do we not
| have a similar moral duty to share that magic bread of digital knowledge with
| all those that hunger for it?
`----
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/rms-and-his-magic-bread.html
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkrzkXoACgkQU4xAY3RXLo5bJgCeLor/vdO6djfX9/ldDMjUZN95
JdgAn044akA5BoN2vhpXcZ77lGvuPiNC
=+g50
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Linux