Freedom links for 2008-01-03 (2008)
Happy new year to you all! Kicking off 2008 with a couple of links. I’m going to try and increase the number of links here, each day, so I can eventually provide you with 20 or so links a day. * Sears infects customer computers with spyware * Netflix and HD: a DRM disaster that costs you your videos and control of your hardwareIf you have links to share – email them to me – mattl@gnu.org – put ‘Freedom Links’ in the subject line.
Publishing will set us free! (2007)
I have long longed for my dream publishing tool for the web. With the release of Movable Type under the GPL, I took another chance to evaluate it – I have a long and unhealthy relationship with it. It wasmy tool of choice, but like many, moved to WordPress when Six Apart fucked with the license. The free software release of Movable Type, or MTOS, as they’re agonisingly calling, is a lot prettier than the lastMT I used – it’s still a clusterfuck of Perl scripts, but either I’m better at insta