Category Archives: free culture

An email this morning from John Patterson of MetManiac reporting that he met with Met management and they have reached an agreement to allow MetManiac to return. Mr. Volpe of the Met is apparently responsible for this sanity. It is a nice practice to thank people for their sanity. Insanity reported here. Continue reading →

Dave bravely (given the excitement about Mitch’s latest contribution) defend’s Don Park’s concern that the Open Source Applications Foundation will fuel an “erosion in the sense of value for software.” That is an important and valid concern, but it needs to be kept in context…. Continue reading →

RMS wrote with kind words about the substance of my OSCON talk, but with fair criticism about its form. Flash!, for all its magic, is not “free” in the relevant sense. Can’t I, RMS asks, put this up in a free form? He volunteered to OGG the MP3 file. But is there someone who has played with the emerging free video tools enough to be able to convert the mix of text and images into a free form? I’d love to tinker with it, but there are mice to be freed…. Continue reading →

So out of the muck, Sheila has pushed the idea of picking two candidates, one D and on R, to defeat in the fall. She nicely suggests an organization to start. She also describes Coble’s (R, NC) libertarain opponent, supported by Dave Winer, Tara Grubb. Man, that would be a coup. Just the sort of thing they would say the geeks could never do. Doc’s got a nice email from Timothy Phillips (who has been a key contributor to the Eldred case from the start) pushing my hero Hank Perritt, and opposing Mary “Sonny thought copyright should be forever” Bono…. Continue reading →

This just in from Gary Murphy. Now we just need some tunes, and then we’ll have a movement… From: Gary Murphy Subject: I had a little agent In his OSCON address free culture defender Lawrence Lessig laments that he’d like to write a song to help his cause, but he can’t — I Had A Little Agent ———————— (words by Gary Murphy) I had a little agent, my agent pleased me. I fed my agent from the Greenback Tree. And my little agent did diddily-squat did diddily did diddily did diddily-squat I had some musicians, my musicians pleased me. I… Continue reading →