How to Evaluate Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) Programs

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it to Windows. Today's computers and OSS/FS operating systems are so inexpensive that it's often cheaper to buy special-purpose computers for a task than to try to change the appl
This paper describes how to evaluate open source software

Computer Criticism vs. Technocentric Thinking

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writing would condemn computers any more than literary criticism condemns literature or social criticism condemns society. The purpose of computer criticism is not to condemn but

Mindless Intelligence and Smart Sentience

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sentience. Digital computers and the software they run are not phenomenally-bound subjects of experience ( cf . The Binding Problem ). Ascribing sentience to digital computers or
Why digital computers will always be micro-experiential zombies

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