The FreedomBox

September 18, 2010 by muyiwa

"We're not going to win the freedom of the Net argument by taking FaceBook on our back".

"If you want to know who I talked to on Friday night, get a search warrant and stop reading my e-mail"

"We're surrounded by stuff listening to and watching us, by mine-able data"

"So, let's give ourselves a direction in which to go - towards freedom, using free software to make social justice"

Watch Eben Moglen's video presentation at NYU to understand why that corporate Google email may not be such a good idea afterall.

More information about the FreedomBox Foundation

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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755

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Reclaim your computer!

A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours. Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over.
— Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005

The most serious impediment to a lasting archive is the evolution of media, platforms, formats, and the applications that create them. Unique, proprietary, and constantly evolving data formats such as Acrobat-4, MPEG-4, Oracle 8, Quicken 2001, Real G2, and Word 2000 suggest or even guarantee obsolescence.
— Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher in Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group.

LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES. You can recover from Microsoft and its suppliers only direct damages up to the amount you paid for the software. You cannot recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages.
— Clause 26 of the Windows 7 License.

Moodle Resources

Open source web conference systems

BigBlueButton: http://www.bigbluebutton.org/
Open Meetings: http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/

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