Also further explained at about 10:20 in http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Richard_Stallman_Talk_2009-10-09_part2.ogv

"That term is so vague, or shall we say nebulous, that it can't be used for meaningful statements."
"Don't pay attention to who has your data, or who controls all of the computing you do, just ignore it."

Thanks a lot for the video and link/post. I wonder why googling 'a free digital society'
does not find it. Not even the FSF page has much info on the talk.

While discovering new properties of old phenomena is interesting,
does anyone ever question the 'bravado' of the wording of such
discoveries?

Does it inhibit later discoveries, in creating artificial limitations
through language and subsequently expectation?

The fact that this post is modded as flamebait shows how these ideas
are merely being censored, instead of discussed.

But, maybe you don't want to know that you *may* be supporting war and
murder with your way of life, so you can play video games and use ipods.

Either way. It will come to an end.

go the same route as sony did. epic fail.

Just destroy your selves so we can go back to our huts and tipis, thanks.

Until something changes, I have to treat this as more propaganda.
When the same press release admits to many other factors in these
"diseases" and even its own "medicine" system to be at fault, this just
sounds like more dribble.

"two massive, 6,000-year-old tombs that are among "Britain's first architecture,"

"The site has come as a surprise to the archaeologists who had thought that the area had been studied in such depth that few discoveries of such magnitude remained."

Maybe their thoughts are limiting them ...

I heard they sold all of their gold for two *bits* (per second).

"Making that same substandard security technology free won't change that equation.'"

Hmm?

A FOAF's worked on a project aimed at 'securing XP'. I do not know if it was this one.

This friend asked the programmer if he had heard of SELinux. He said, "What?"

Surreal.

"the government could use its massive purchasing power to get companies to produce more secure products" - really?

There needs to be more motivation for them to release products that are more than 'good enough'?

Pretty interesting.
I just helped a friend post his discography to demonoid-
I wonder if they would block links from them also?

Our behaviors aren't really all that advanced, as humans, and
in order for us to get much further we are going to have to
acknowledge that, instead of build bigger and better in order
to please some part of ourselves that is afraid to grow..

Just bought a newly released Asus netbook pre-loaded with XP.

I don't know why they chose XP, it could have been
many reasons, but as a casual user the changes
from Vista to XP were substantial - but they
always will be - your options are always the same.

(a) Choose another, similar product from the [vendor]
(b) Choose another, similar product from another vendor

In the case of windows and its lack of ethics in
regards to inter-operability [or their past] this
has harmed their overall effectiveness in the market.
The consumer has been locked in, and more
importantly so has their data ...

Now to change means an entire platform shift, as
there is nothing that is fully compatible and as
"comfortable".

Get rid of platform dependance, version
dependance. I myself run several machines
on this little netbook, multiboot and vm,
and they all perform various functions.