Richard Stallman: Free Software Newsletter Issue 31 June 2012

Free Software Supporter Issue 51, June 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS URGENT: Kill ACTA Stop software patents in Europe Two job openings on the FSF campaigns team FSF recommendations for free operating system distributions considering Secure Boot GNU GPLv3 turns 5 Dear Microsoft: fsf.org is not a “gambling site” FSF’s new operations assistant Emacs Reference mugs …

Chuck Spinney: Progressives Argue Over Defeating Obama – a Conversation on Email

Most of my liberal friends reluctantly support President Obama’s re-election, because the alternative is so much worse.  Invariably, they invoke the effects of a Romney presidency on judicial appointments, especially those to the Supreme Court (ironically, Obama’s two appointees just voted with the majority to decline to hear the Guantanamo case, if effect, putting another …

Penguin: Bruce Schneier on US Destabilizing Cyber-Space

Stuxnet cyberattack by US a ‘destabilizing and dangerous’ course of action, security expert Bruce Schneier says Schneier calls Stuxnet ‘mistake’ for US, argues world needs to tackle cyber-arms control By Ellen Messmer Network World, June 18, 2012 Revelations by The New York Times that President Barack Obama in his role as commander in chief ordered …

Tom Atlee: The Design Economy – How to Meet the Challenges of the Next Economic Era

The concepts of “design” and “association” in this article, related so fundamentally to the creation and contextualization of important information, seems closely related to the idea of open intelligence and the larger meme of open everything.  So, fyi. The Design Economy: How to Meet the Challenges of the Next Economic Era Joe Costello, author of …