The gradual disappearance of open wireless networks is a tragedy of the commons, with a confusing twist of privacy and security debate. This essay explains why the progressive locking of wireless networks is harmful — for convenience, for privacy and for
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Semantic Bundle is a pre-packaged bundle of extensions for use with wikis that are based around the Semantic MediaWiki extension. It can be obtained either through SVN or by downloading a single .tgz or .zip file.
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While Android may have the legal licensing to qualify as open source, it utterly fails on the equally important issues of transparency and community. Android basically gives you two options: Accept what Google gives you, or fork the entire codebase. Other
Rasmus Fleischer (Copyriot) i Sydsvenskan 23 augusti 2009: "Digitaliseringen har osäkrat bibliotekens identitet. Vissa svarar med den enfaldiga visionen om “digitala bibliotek”, i linje med den gamla idén om ett cyberspace dit befintliga verksamheter kund
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"We’re a global community of thousands who sincerely believe in the power of technology to enrich people’s lives. We’re a public benefit organization dedicated not to making money but to improving the way people everywhere experience the Internet. And we’
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