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[News] Use of Freedom/Openness to Eliminate Waste, Poverty

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How to Save the Amazon Forest by Sharing

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| Sharing this kind of info (a) costs *nothing* to the governments concerned 
| and (b) could give this important project a big boost.  
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-save-amazon-forest-by-sharing.html

Open Sustainability Network Event in San Francisco, this weekend

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| North by South will be participating in the Open Sustainability Network camp 
| in San Francisco this weekend. OSNCamp is “a BarCamp style conference about 
| free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international 
| development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.”   
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http://news.northxsouth.com/2008/10/15/open-sustainability-network-event-in-san-francisco-this-weekend/

"The Internet? We are not interested in it."

                                --Bill Gates, 1993


Recent:

No need to burn books you can't read - DRM and public libraries

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| As my correspondent says: "After all that I still couldn't open the document
| (which I've only opened once before) and got this. Now I know I haven't
| opened the document at another computer because this is my only computer with
| a printer - so I didn't open it anywhere else. I am never using this service
| again. The British Library, Microsoft and Adobe can go shove their DRM up
| their document delivery service exit. "
|
| This, let me reiterate, is a public body providing publicly paid-for research
| to a highly-qualified professional engaged in impeccable work for the public
| service.
|
| It is hard to imagine something more expensive, condescending, inaccurate,
| frustrating and enraging – nor something better calculated to restrict
| knowledge and broadcast ignorance.
|
| It's almost as if the parties involved actively want to prevent people
| learning. It certainly feels that way.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009526o-2000331777b,00.htm


Related:

Microsoft: We Like DRM

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| Steve Jobs wants the music business to drop restrictions for digital
| tunes. But Microsoft, which began competing head to head with Apple
| in the digital music business last fall, is happy with the way things
| are, says media exec Robbie Bach.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2lrz3y
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