Monday, June 20, 2011
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John Sullivan, Executive Director
John started working with GNU Press and the Free Software Foundation in 2003 and then became the FSF's first Campaigns Manager, working on outreach efforts like Defective by Design, BadVista, and PlayOgg. In 2011, John became the Executive Director after four years as Manager of Operations.
His background is mainly in the humanities, with an MFA in Writing and Poetics and a BA in Philosophy, but he has been spending too much time with computers and online communities since the days of the Commodore 64. He's become a dedicated GNU Emacs user after first trying it around 1996, and contributes code to several of its extensions.
Prior to the FSF, John worked as a college debate team instructor for both Harvard and Michigan State University.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Build up from Schools, Inspire The Children and Make Them Creative
I just agree with Thomas Thym. We have to introduce Free Software from Schools.
As I know 'Kak' Seto Mulyadi, National Commission for Child Protection's Chairman, have support the movement to stimulate children creativity. And we know that it's the advantage of Free Sofftware.
Let's promote the movement and support our children's creativity.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
MySQL : Dolphin as Logo
Do you ever stop and think? It happens to me all the time, random subjects kick in and I end up searching (aka googling) and today I wondered … Why is MySQLs logo a dolphin? Shame on me it took me so long to ask the question but as the saying goes, better late than never.
See it there.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Free Software
Free Software Movement was started by Richard M Stallman founder of GNU Project. GNU is recursive acronym of GNU is Not Unix.
Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer. Free as in Freedom. This statement is very confusing because when talking about free software, it is best to avoid using terms like give away or for free, because those terms imply that the issue is about price, not freedom.
Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. It's diferent from open source.
References :
1. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
2. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
3. http://opensource.org/docs/osd
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement
