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  • Jun
  • 06
  • 2008

Canadian Govt Caught Editing Wikipedia Entry about Copyright

“Everyone makes mistakes” appears to be the rather banal lesson from Canada this week, as Industry Canada got caught with its hand in the Wikipedia copyright cookie jar and the Canadian anti-throttling forces screwed up the difference between kilobits and kilobytes in official regulatory filings. Oops.

In a separate proceeding, both Bell Canada and the Canadian Association of Internet Providers have filed detailed responses to Canadian regulators about Bell's P2P throttling plan. Bell argues that its deep packet inspection-based…

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  • Apr
  • 30
  • 2008

Can we rescue OLPC from Windows?

FSF president Richard Stallman calls on Negroponte and the OLPC project leadership to reject overtures by Microsoft and recognize the importance of free software to its core educational mission. RMS has just started using one as his main machine.

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Its functioning is secret, so it is incompatible with the spirit of learning. Teaching children to use a proprietary (non-free) system such as Windows does not make the world a…

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