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Who Else Wants Start Their Own High Demand -eBook- Software Empire From Scratch, Without Any Programming Skills?! http://t.co/Z7R4C5AOJK

Twittter Free Software - Thu, 2013-05-16 19:03
Who Else Wants Start Their Own High Demand -eBook- Software Empire From Scratch, Without Any Programming Skills?! http://t.co/Z7R4C5AOJK
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Do you know a non-profit that needs contact center software? We want to help. #freesoftware http://t.co/uRN5QuvZMv

Twittter Free Software - Thu, 2013-05-16 18:23
Do you know a non-profit that needs contact center software? We want to help. #freesoftware http://t.co/uRN5QuvZMv
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100% Give Away: Software Packages To Generate Massive Waves Of Traffic To Your Website http://t.co/handByKbLh via @worldprofit

Twittter Free Software - Thu, 2013-05-16 14:17
100% Give Away: Software Packages To Generate Massive Waves Of Traffic To Your Website http://t.co/handByKbLh via @worldprofit
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4th day #WSIS already started It was great to be there! Thanks to all the people involved in the organization #GNUHealth #HIS #freesoftware

Twittter Free Software - Thu, 2013-05-16 08:43
4th day #WSIS already started It was great to be there! Thanks to all the people involved in the organization #GNUHealth #HIS #freesoftware
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Happy 10th Anniversary, Dear Groklaw! Happy 10th Anniversary to Us! ~pj

Groklaw - Thu, 2013-05-16 04:01
We made it. A decade of Groklaw as of today. Who'd a thunk it?

Not I.

When I started, I thought I'd do a little fiddling around for a couple of months to learn how to blog. But then all you guys showed up and taught me some important things that I didn't know, and vice versa I hope, and here we are, on our 10th anniversary, still going strong, together on a very different path than I originally imagined. The important moment for me was when I realized the potential we had as a group and decided to try to surf this incredible wave all of you created by contributing your skills and time. I saw we could work as a group, explain technology to the legal world so lawyers and judges could make better decisions, and explain the legal process to techies, so they could avoid troubles and also could be enabled to work effectively to defend Free and Open Source Software from cynical "Intellectual Property" attacks from the proprietary world.

And it worked! That's the amazing part. It actually worked. So far, so good.

If I take three things away from our experience, it's this: 1.) Education is never a waste,
2.) All of us together are smarter and more powerful than any one of us alone, and
3) FUD withers in sunlight. It only works when people lack accurate information. Group dynamics are awesome. Whenever there is a new need, somehow the right people show up and fill it. Whether it was meticulously demolishing SCO's claims, one by one, or doing patent prior art searching, or explaining that software is mathematics and hence unpatentable subject matter, or noticing what the real game is in the patent smartphone wars, you came through with competence, donating your knowledge, research, and skills to the group effort. And you did it entirely as volunteers, as a free gift to the world.

Groklaw was attacked with venom, of course. But here we are, ten years later, still standing.

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App developer calls critic “f*cken little know it all”; site goes down http://t.co/fwK2rFzC9Z #freesoftware

Twittter Free Software - Thu, 2013-05-16 00:56
App developer calls critic “f*cken little know it all”; site goes down http://t.co/fwK2rFzC9Z #freesoftware
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