March 13, 2006

Expanding the Pie Of Freedom

Category: Ethics,F/OSS — @ 9:26 am

Alchemical Musings has mused some very interesting thoughts on the implications of “free” (as in beer not in speech”) webservices:

Considering Google’s stated ambitions to “house all user files, including: emails, web history, pitcures, bookmakres, etc” the freedom movement better wake up to the fact that there is more to freedom than free software, and we are being outflanked.

Free software is only one corner peice of this puzzle – to complete the jigsaw we need the corners of free data, in a free format. Anything else?

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