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Toronto Open Source Conference Report
derrickoswald writes "Today's Ottawa Citizen is running a report in the TechWeekly section on the recent open source conference in Toronto organized by U of T's interdisciplinary Knowledge Media Design Institute and last month's Real World Linux trade show. It highlights the extremely poor Extremadura region of Spain's success story using open source to bootstrap themselves technologically. Quotes from FOSS luminaries include: 'Who controls the software, controls life. Well, it had better us. That's the real political meaning of the free software movement,' said Eben Moglen. Open source 'was the default way you built Internet Infrastructure. You wrote code and released it without trying to commercialize and monetize it,' said Brian Behldendorf." Newsforge (also part of OSDN) has a series of reports on the conference: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.
I'm not sure how exactly acceptance of open source software relates to "[my] rights online"
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On the front page there's a Microsoft ad touting how much better their server is and less expensive?? wtf? lol
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It could be worse: You could have the Ministry of Silly Rocks after you.
Who controls the software, controls life
That's very melodramatic. One can always make more software. I'd think a more true statement would be, "Who controls the energy, controls life." Talk about your closed system, energy production and distribution is tightly held. I'd think that rather than worry about a replaceable commodity like software, he'd be worried about keeping energy flowing. Energy is free and wants to remain free, yet we all pay for it.
Anyone for an open source energy production facility?
Toronto is a fine city, you know nothing about. You don't even know how to spell, who's going to take your advice?
Haha, sir, you are amusing. Our association is happy to see that we can reach individuals such as yourself to spread our message.
We will make you an honorary member of the GNAA. We even have parades, where we ride small scooters like the Shriners. And funny handshakes.
I second that!!
Thank you for your suggestions, dear sir. We will take those under advisement. Unfortunately our budget for this fiscal year is complete, so perhaps for the next?
If you give us your contact info (just e-mail it to corporate.relations@gnaa.org), we'll be happy to send you an invitation to one spanking contests. They're great fun and there's lot of jell-o, which I'm sure you love to indulge in.