Posts Tagged ‘open source’

The divide between technical and artistic is never so evident as it is in open source software. Virtually all open source tools of significance are technically oriented. Browsers. Backend website software. Debuggers. The next big debate over opening the web is currently taking place around audio and video. But unlike so many other open web [...]

Last night I heard about the Independence Party of Minnesota. While its core values are a little vague, I saw the emergence of this group as a possible step in the right direction of introducing open source values and practices to our government. As I read their collection of core values, I kept seeing words [...]

My academic training is in medieval history and literature, and nobody understand the true meaning of the frustrating phrase “those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” like a medievalist. I can’t tell you how many <facepalm> moments I’ve had when somebody talks about “The Dark Ages” or insists that some modern concept is [...]