Tobias Escher at the OII

At the congress yesterday I also was lucky enough to hear a talk by Jérémie Zimmermann from APRIL, a French association to promote and defend the logic of free/libre software. No clue? Well, not really surprising given that his organisation has been active only in France (and hence in French) but it is a shame [...]

I spent this day at the Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) in Berlin which is a four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), a national society of politically minded hackers. It brings together hackers and activists from around the world (this time probably between 3-4,000!) whose interest focuses mostly on hacking (as in tinkering [...]

Five years ago the idea of Creative Commons was born and since then the idea of “some rights reserved” has caught on. While the utter ignorance I experienced when mentioning Creative Commons to some people in my vicinity suggests there is still some way to go it did emerge that some people are in fact [...]