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Soviet-like antipiracy campaign targeted at kids in Mexico

The mexican newspaper El Universal published a contest for kids sponsored by IMPI (the organization that in charge of “intelectual property” and patents in Mexico) which invites kids to report to the IMPI for any “piracy” acts their parents, teachers and friends do. Gunnar Wolf sent an open letter (in spanish) to the newspaper and […]

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Emacs GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

Identica mode for Emacs update: support for any Laconica server

I’ve updated identica-mode for Emacs and now has a way to connect to any laconica server, instead of just identi.ca. To configure add this to your .emacs file, or your customizations file or your choice: (setq laconica-server “myserver.com”) I’m working on publishing the git repository of the project. In the meantime you can download it […]

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Digital rights Law & Freedom GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source personal

Depending on web services

What would happen if your access to most of your online services were to be disabled? What would you loose? I’ve been in situations where we have to decide either to run certain applications on our server, like E-mail, scheduling, project management, etc. Or use the ubiquitous, given-for-granted web services from huge companies with huge […]

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Chrome license makes Google more than the new Big Brother

Yesterday’s big news was that Google released their own “open source” browser called Google Chrome. They released only the binaries for Windows, and even thought they claim to be open source, I don’t see where I can get the source code yet. But what really bothers me is the license agreements for Chrome: 11. Content […]

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Emacs GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

Identi.ca mode for Emacs

Identi.ca is a free software microblogging service, similar to Twitter, based on the Status.net code base. I recently needed to update my status from Emacs, since its faster for me and easier. I’ve been using an an Emacs mode to update my Twitter account, but there was nothing to use for my Identi.ca account. And […]

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GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

Free software hosting for free or open source projects

There are several services to host your project’s code on the web for free. But recently there’s been some outages on “very reliable” services like Gmail, Amazon and let’s not get started with Twitter. Also some service policies may bother you like Google code rejecting a lot of software licenses, and Facebook will never delete […]