☞ Rejection

Skype security weaknesses could endanger ‘vulnerable users’ This Privacy International report covers a few of the reasons citizens in surveilled society should avoid Skype. I avoid it for these reasons and more, including: It’s 100% closed – design, interfaces, source – so all four software freedoms are absent I’ve no idea who is tapping it, [...]

☆ The Threat Of Parallel Filing

When we consider software patents, it’s easy to believe they are something outside the open source communities. Mentally, many of us model them as a weapon belonging to “patent trolls” – companies who don’t make products in the area of the patents they own (they may have other business interests they are funding) but instead [...]

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