The attack on our technological freedoms from Apple is permanent, so is my boycott of their products and services. I am not sure why it’s still a question, but at least there’s more discussion and better understanding of what’s happening.

It’s business as usual, BTW.

"Following on Oracle’s announcement that OpenJDK will now be the reference implementation of Java, they have discontinued the non-free "Operating System Distributor License for Java" (DLJ), which was used for many years to ship the Sun JDK in Linux distributions including Ubuntu (through the Canonical Partner archive). Oracle recommends that all Linux distributions migrate to shipping OpenJDK packages, and that all users migrate to those packages, or download the Oracle binary builds (based on the OpenJDK source code) directly from http://oracle.com/java.

Oracle also recently posted several critical security patches to Java 6, including fixes for some remote exploits through the Java browser plugin. Since the Operating System Distributor License has been discontinued, Canonical no longer has permission to distribute updates to the Sun JDK packages, and is therefore unable to deliver these critical security patches to Ubuntu users. "

Java 6 Transition

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes/Java6Transition

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Its Debian packaging has been progressing nicely lately:

I used this how-to:

http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:MagicFab#Presentations_.2F_Events

Voici quelques exemples:

Silverlight listé comme technologie émergente:

http://www.webmaestro.gouv.qc.ca/fr/niveau3.asp?CodePage=2.3.6#a10

La "norme" encorageant l’utilisation de Flash, SIlverlight et GoogleGears pour les dev. web du gouvernement:

http://msssa4.msss.gouv.qc.ca/extranet/ri.nsf/vcat/77D6DE189A7D3407852578400069EEAF?opendocument

Registre Foncier du Québec:

http://www.registrefoncier.gouv.qc.ca/Sirf/guide/02_Avant_de_transiger/pf_02_01_avant-trans_outils.htm

Le réseau de Bibliothèuqes Gouvernementales:

http://www.ribg.gouv.qc.ca:81/ribg/ui-cmsweb.asp?iCCId=163&iCCT=0&iCAId=885&iCAT=11201&sCGCId=163,1,0,0,0,0,0&sUID=&iSPw=0&intLanguage=10201&sCINm=Postes+de+travail+requis&membersearchtype=

Et non le moinde:

"Tyrap (Ty-Rap en anglais) est le nom d’une attache autobloquante inventée en 1958 par la compagnie Thomas & Betts (T&B), qui en possède encore au XXIe siècle la dénomination commerciale. En anglais, elle est aussi appelée zip tie, zap strap, zip strip, wire tie, mouse belt, tie wrap, quick draw, rat belt, ou colson."
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrap

Voici le lien pour le menottes dérivées de cette invention (les "PlastiCuffs" !):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlastiCuffs

Comment y échapper (pour faire un truc de magie par exemple):

$1 when installed via Marketplace:

http://www.ulule.com/debian-handbook/

Étant donné que le projet Debian est la source même du projet Ubuntu, j’ai pensé partager cette initiative avec vous. 58% de l’objectif est atteint, il manque ~10K euros à ramasser en dons pendant les prochaines *heures*.

Je cite (traduite via Google translate):

"Nous voudrions vraiment voir le livre intégré dans Debian, et donc de le voir publié sous une licence qui est conforme à la «Debian Free Software Guidelines». Mais comme tout le monde, nous avons besoin pour vivre et nourrir notre famille, et nous croyons que nous sommes en droit d’avoir un paiement décent pour le travail que nous faisons.

Avec ce projet, notre but est de prouver qu’il est possible de gagner de l’argent même avec un travail qui est publié sous une licence libre. Le compromis que nous proposons est la suivante: en parallèle à l’objectif de financement que nous avons défini le Ulule.com, nous allons mettre en place un "fonds de libération». Si ce fonds atteint 25.000 euros, la version anglaise du livre sera distribué sous une licence libre (GPL2 + / CC-BY-SA-3.0).

Il ya 3 façons de contribuer à ce fonds libération:

choisir une récompense qui inclut explicitement une telle contribution;
donner plus que la quantité nécessaire pour la récompense de votre choix, le supplément sera automatiquement comptée dans le fonds de la libération;
choisissez «Je ne veux pas de récompense", votre don entier est affecté au fonds de la libération."

You’d be surprised how many "non technical" people run NoScript in Firefox. Look at how many people use Firefox now – or Chrome – remember the "99% use IE" discussions and how it was "impossible" that would change?

Depending on what your context is, you may consider all this extreme, radical, isolating, etc… reminds me of the environmental discussions just a few years ago. In fact, in some geographic areas recycling and not using plastic bags is still considered a futile, useless, stupid waste of time -"unavoidable" progress dictates it.

In order to know how stuff works, and to educate yourself about your car, and to know what your food is made of you’d need access. I don’t know many people that don’t care what their food is made of BTW! Try going INTO the kitchen, next time you go to a restaurant. Yes, you can do that. Did you ever bother to ask ? Same with your garage, technical shop, etc. You’re being denied access ? You can judge if you want to give your business to them then.

I agree with Brad that access should be perpetual, universal. If you haven’t noticed, open hardware is emerging and popularizing very quickly, and I am not even talking about Arduino or VoIP… here’s only but a tiny example:

http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2011/02/01/diy-industrial-scale-tools-open-source-ecologys-global-village-construction-set/

Published: 2011-11-28

The YaCy project is releasing version 1.0 of its peer-to-peer Free Software search engine. The software takes a radically new approach to search. YaCy does not use a central server. Instead, its search results come from a network of currently over 600 independent peers. In such a distributed network, no single entity decides what gets listed, or in which order results appear.

The YaCy search engine runs on each user’s own computer. Search terms are encrypted before they leave the user and the user’s computer. Different from conventional search engines, YaCy is designed to protect users’ privacy. A user’s computer creates its individual search indexes and rankings, so that results better match what the user is looking for over time. YaCy also makes it easy to create a customised search portal with a few clicks.

"Most of what we do on the Internet involves search. It’s the vital link between us and the information we’re looking for. For such an essential function, we cannot rely on a few large companies, and compromise our privacy in the process," says Michael Christen, YaCy’s project leader. "YaCy’s free search is the vital link between free users and free information. YaCy hands control over search back to us, the users."

Each YaCy user is part of a large search network. YaCy is already in use on websites such as sciencenet.kit.edu, yacy.geocaching-portal.com, or fsfe.org, to provide a site-wide search function that respect users’ privacy. It contains a peer-to-peer network protocol to exchange search indexes with other YaCy search engines.

"We are moving away from the idea that services need to be centrally controlled. Instead, we are realising how important it is to be independent, and to create infrastructure that doesn’t have a single point of failure," says Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. "In the future world of distributed, peer-to-peer systems, Free Software search engines like YaCy are a vital building block."

Everyone can try out the search engine at http://search.yacy.net/. Users can become part of YaCy’s network by installing the software on their own computers. YaCy is Free Software, so anyone can use, study, share and improve it. It is currently available for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS. The project is also looking for developers and other contributors.
Links:

YaCy homepage: http://yacy.net

YaCy search portal: http://search.yacy.net/

How to contribute: http://yacy.net/en/Join.html

Free Software Foundation Europe: http://fsfe.org
Contacts

Michael Christen
YaCy Project Leader
Tel. +49 177 6424235
Email: mc@yacy.net

I don’t want a PC, and current devcies like this seem to require setting up from a PC:

http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/hauppauge-wintv-hdpvr-video-recorder-1219/10107259.aspx?path=8857edb44f75b409080652fbffe93a0aen02

I don’t want any video/TV tuner /capture cards, the goal here is *zero configuration* on a PC.