Thu January 1 1970 Free Software has been advancing in many regions of the world, giving freedom to computer users. Though we hear an occasional news about somebody going to migrate to Free Software, we never realise the extent to which people have migrated. It is interesting to take a look at all the migrations over the last few years and see to what extent GNU/Lin ...

Thu January 1 1970 I had written about misusing freedom earlier, and that was provoked by a television invading into the privacy of a couple of teenage children when they were in a miserable state. I have to write again about how a newspaper has used a photograph by an amateur photographer without either asking her permission or even acknowledging her.

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Thu January 1 1970 This is something that had been in my mind for quite some time - a conference on Free Software and Education. The idea is to get speakers to explain the importance of using Free Software in education, demonstrate pieces of software that can be, and that are being, used in different levels of education, and give a call to all educational institutio ...

Thu January 1 1970 Nothing much happened on 2nd, 3rd and 4th. We did go to a place where Lucho's friends were doing a podcast called Mango Podcast. There was a discussion about Free Software involving a few of Lucho's friends, Juan and me. One of them apparently thought that I was being misled by Lucho about the state of their country. But he did not raise the issue ...

Thu January 1 1970 After the conference, I have been largely idling, though I was involved in discussions with some of the people related to the government who are working to bring Free Software in education in the country and a two-hour discussion on the radio in which Marco, Juan, Charles Escobar and Chepi Gimanez (who also interpreted for me) were involved. Day b ...

Thu January 1 1970 I was invited to the Free Software Conference at Asuncion, Paraguay, to talk about the IT at School project. Being almost on the other side of the planet, the journey was rather tough. I have written about it in my blog Free as in Freedom. Here I will try to write about the conference as such.

Thu January 1 1970 The Government of Paraguay is organising an International Conference on Free Software at Asuncion, the capital of the country. Some important names in the Free Software world - such as Marco Ciurcina, Diego Saravia, David Sugar - will be seen in the list of participants. I am one of the lucky guys to be invite ...

Thu January 1 1970 Over the last several hundred years, people have created a large number of cultural artefacts in the form of sculptures, paintings, pottery, clothes and so on. And also "immaterial" stuff like stories, music, films and so on. But over the last couple of centuries or so, we have had the means to preserve these in the form of material objects like g ...

Thu January 1 1970 An Interview with Richard Stallman
(This interview appeared in Frontline, Volume 26 - Issue 04 :: Feb. 14-27, 2009 under the title "Liberating Cyberspace")

Richard Mathew Stallman needs no ...

Thu January 1 1970 A comment on my earlier post on the denial of democratic rights to individuals and communities attracteda a comment that virtually accused me of supporting "terrorists". I can understand the feeling of the writer, a retired army officer. Maybe he had to face "terrorists" during his service. But, in my humble opinion, gives no right to the State to ...