In his keynote at the Open World Forum 2013 in Paris, John Sullivan, the executive director of the Free Software Foundation explains why he and every other FSF associate ‘can’t Skype’. What he means is of course that everyone at the FSF could use Skype (or any equivalent proprietary software) but chooses not to. Sullivan’s […]
Continue Reading →A few weeks ago, I came across a reddit thread asking “If the US had spent as much on NASA as we did on military, where would we be today?“. The highest rated answer was given by a NASA Engineer with more of 25 years of experience: The main thing that needs to be understood […]
Continue Reading →In this fascinating lecture, Susan Greenfield, a neuroscientist and professor of Pharmacology at Oxford University, talks about the effects of a digitized world on the human brain. She argues that the brain’s frontal cortex, the area responsible for abstract thought and analysis, is significantly altered in adolescents growing up with a high exposure to digital […]
Continue Reading →It really is amazing how much these things are timeless. The three philosophers I will quote in the following have lived more than 2000 years ago. In completely different world. Yet their minds were just as sharp as ours are today (or maybe sharper). And what they have to say applies every bit to our […]
Continue Reading →30 years ago the then MIT researcher and exceptionally gifted programmer Richard Stallman posted the following text to the net.unix-wizards group: Free Unix! Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu’s Not Unix), and give it away free to everyone who can use it. Contributions of […]
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