Wired has a story about how current copyright law has made it illegal to view a PBS documentary film series from the late 1980s. Wired News: Putting Eyeballs on Copyright Law
The main motive of the Free Software Movement is to reverse the trend of locking up copyrights, explicitly making "Intellectual Property" available to everyone.
John Locke is the lead developer and founder of Freelock, LLC. In addition to being a proficient web developer, he is an experienced technical writer, network administrator, and all around problem solver. He has worked with computers since 1984, and currently advises small businesses on open source software.
How much do you spend on your website? I'm not asking how much it cost you to create/build -- I mean day to day, what does it cost to own and maintain your site?
And what happens if you stop paying that?
To wrap up our round-up of awesome open source packages, and to get back to business, our final selection for the year is NextCloud.
For the holidays, we're highlighting some awesome Free/Open Source software -- three amazing platforms that have gone far beyond any commercial/proprietary competitor.
In the spirit of the holidays, we're doing a few posts on Free/Open Source projects that we use every day, that isn't what we sell.
After 15+ years, Google cut off our "forever free" business account yesterday.
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