...practices, production resources, technical regimes, and community practices in which they are embedded. This in turn may then help identify how the practice and principles of SE might be improved....
“Information” has become the newest buzzword in our fully-integrated Internet culture. With the pervasiveness of personal computers and kids learning how to surf the Web at an increasingly younger age,...
...the meaning that a standard setting organization would give it. B. Standard setting organizations use several words in this general area. Most commonly, “compliant,” “conformant,” and “certified.” The last...
...to obey, the church could deny certification to anyone that refused to comply. "Heresy," after all, is simply a more judgmental term for non-conformance. Still, Arius was lucky, compared to...
...in its entirety at Groklaw, together with her own commentary and links to related materials. If you read my earlier rough transcript and were (how to say delicately) put off...
...line), freedom of access (affordable broadband or otherwise), and freedom to create (open versus closed systems, the ability to create mashups under Creative Commons licenses, and so on). I believe...
...– not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good. As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety...
...support, or are trying to attract, one flavor or another of a book community, and many of these sites provide a free, basic presence to an author. Most operate on...
...and with others from a price comparison point of view. Subscribe for the service providers’ free newsletter, and compare the prices of the books they list. If the service has...
...recipients of the software the freedoms to use, run, study, modify, and redistribute the OS software in source code or compiled form for any purpose. These are considered “essential freedoms”...