http://blog.telematicsfreedom.org Official Blog of the Telematics Freedom Foundation Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:11:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 882287http://www.feedburner.com On a Smart Mobs blog post; i just discovered today about Copowi that is set out to offer a fully FLOSS ISP service, which would include also several additional guarantees for several rights of its users. They plan to release all their code under Affero License, as much as possible. They ... http://blog.telematicsfreedom.org/2007/08/24/cofree-isp-provider-through-free-telematics/ The thousands of generic software patents held by large software giants, and other dedicated private entities, are increasingly becoming a huge and unfair barrier for new software companies, development communities and products to achieve wide market adoption. In fact, as a software product competes with a product made by one of ... http://blog.telematicsfreedom.org/2007/08/07/how-to-prevent-software-patent-holders-to-stop-free-software-take-over/ It is great news that California - the software capital state of the world, the economy best positioned to benefit from a worldwide e-voting market, and lead state in many areas of legislation - has decided to de-certify all e-voting systems. Most, or possibly all, e-voting systems available today are just ... http://blog.telematicsfreedom.org/2007/08/07/software-capital-of-the-world-rules-out-e-voting/ We have photos from the Innovation Festival, from the 7th to the 10th of June in Rome. The Festival was held in the area surrounding Piazza Augusto Imperatore, and particularly, within the new Ara Pacis Museum complex - work of the internationally renowned architect Richard Meier - a prestigious venue with ... http://blog.telematicsfreedom.org/2007/07/11/innovation-festival/ Sustaining an ecosystem of "truly copylefted" telematics applications through the "Work-for-hire" loophole of FLOSS licenses - - - Imagine Google decided to aggressively responsiblize and incentivize his employees, consultants and partner companies.It would offer them very extensive performance bonuses on profits generated by software services, which they could design, ... http://blog.telematicsfreedom.org/2007/05/07/how-to-create-a-user-controlled-google-to-land-floss-in-the-internet-age/ It is not enough for citizens to be told to have certain rights as users of a given telematic service, under a license (such as FLOSS), or a legislations (such a national and global privacy protection regulations) or under a contract with the service provider (such as Terms of Use).To ... http://blog.telematicsfreedom.org/2007/04/25/free-telematics-a-model-for-the-democratic-control-of-telematic-services-2/ Telematics, the integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, is the most crucial industry sector for the future of humanity. It is key to the indispensable updating and possible deepening of our democratic systems, through their adequate extension to the global level and to the main systems of public opinion formation. ... http://blog.telematicsfreedom.org/2007/03/22/telematics-global-democracy-and-media-democracy/