Today is Document Freedom Day. If you’re not one of the open source faithful, or even if you are, you might not be familiar with this digital independence day. According to the web site at http://documentfreedom.org, “Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort [...]
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Happy Document Freedom Day
March 31st, 2010 
Tim 
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Tags: DFD, document, Document Freedom Day, educate, freedom, grassroots, liberation, open document formats, open standards 
1 Comment »The First Android Apps: From a Linux Startup!
January 13th, 2008 Tim Introducing the first Android prototype – USATODAY.com A post on Mashable brought this to my attention. It should be no surprise that a CA Linux startup, A La Mobile, is the first to offer a suite of apps based on Android, Google’s mobile platform. Let’s hope open source can play an increasingly important role in [...]
FaceOff: My Mind’s Data is My Data
January 3rd, 2008 Tim Reading some of the comments on the Robert Scoble v. FaceBook issue this morning, which centers on an issue of great importance for all of us. It seems FB suspended Scoble’s account because he was using a script to gather data from his account. FB’s IDS probably caught the activity and took automated action. But [...]
Posted in Blogging, IP, Privacy, Social Media, Technology Tags: FaceBook, Privacy, Scoble Comments OffA LAMP Unto My Feet!
November 26th, 2007 Tim The title of this post is a reference to the way Free and Open Source software in general, and Linux specifically, have shown the way to escape the prison of proprietary software and the concept, perhaps, of intellectual property.
