Software Cooperative News

In a great post a few days ago, Jono asks why you are doing free software and reminds us to remember it. It’s quite easy to lose sight of our goals and motivations while working on the day-to-day tasks.
This reminds me of an interesting point made in the course I’m currently studying on Applying [...]

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Today is the Day Against DRM, working against Digital Restrictions Management or Technological Protection Measures (TPM). I’ve two tips to help with our public disservice British Broadcasting Corporation which has consistently failed to act in the public interest and reject DRM:

If you want to link to a BBC radio show like Global Business, you [...]

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This talk at Manchester Free Software’s meeting is covering the question:
“From the literally hundreds of GNU/Linux distributions in existence, what makes Debian special?”

For our co-op, it’s that “Debian GNU/Linux, like all GNU/Linux distributions, is the product of a massive cooperative effort” (in the words of former Debian project leader Branden Robinson) and that debian is [...]

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Contained in the recent billionth-spam report from Project Honeypot is the revelation that “The volume of spam drops approximately 21% on Christmas Day and 32% on New Year’s Day.” (Thanks to Raphael for the pointer.)
Happy Christmas to those of you who celebrate it…

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I’ve kept a page of email clients that support mailing lists for a while and it’s been a bit disappointing that I couldn’t suggest Mozilla Thunderbird or its freer derivatives (IceDove?) as good clients. They work fine in most other ways and it’s nice having something good that we can suggest to users on [...]

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