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What is free software and why is it so important for society? — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software</tit

https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

than one of our own computers in our own home, we could be caught and fined or put in jail. That’s what’s in the fine print of the license agreement you accept when using propriet
The FSF is a charity with a worldwide mission to advance software freedom.

Metropoli BBS - C:\SOFTWARE\TEXTS\COMPUTER

https://files.mpoli.fi/software/TEXTS/COMPUTER/

in the world of microcomputers. Hundreds of terms and acronyms defined with many useful reference tables. Each entry is cross-referenced to other entries, with an intuitive interf

Frequently asked questions by the Press - Tim BL

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html

it is made from computers and cables. What Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn did was to figure out how this could be used to send around little "packets" of information. As Vint points out,

George Julius Genealogy

http://tote-history-atl.net.au/george_julius_genealogy.htm

electronic digital computers. The simplest block diagram you can draw of a digital computer consisting of four boxes can equally be applied to the Julius tote however below that l
Genealogy of George Julius, the inventor of the world's first automatic totalisator and other contemporary interest like the restoration of his lathe

Ari Kronen's Abridged CV

https://armikron.neocities.org/

and managing individual computers or large networks running Windows, OS X, and Linux; Familiar with administering RAID and JBOD arrays; Skilled with implementing automated backup
Ari Kronen's Abridged CV (Quirks Mode w

John Gilmore's home page

http://www.toad.com/gnu/

the First Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy. I remained quite active in EFF, and served on its Board of Directors for decades, until a spasm of political correctness du

The Vine & Fig Tree Worldview

http://vftonline.com/

we are not impersonal computers like a human computer programmer would create. We are not like the animals, trees, or rocks. When most people say "I have free will" what

Open Voices Podcast with Linus Torvalds - WackoWiki

https://wackowiki.org/doc/Org/Articles/LinusTorvalds

completely new uses of computers and that might just happen because computers get pushed down and become cheaper and that might change the whole picture of operating systems. But

2blowhards.com: The Mencius Vision

http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2007/04/_trial_version.html#004052

taxes, writing, computers, these kids these days, and lousy educations. E-Mail Donald Demographer, recovering sociologist, and arts buff E-Mail Fenster College administrator and a
2blowhards.com - a weblog

xx80 | Opinionated Guides

https://opguides.info/posts/xx80/

Chernobyl happened, Computers were still mostly 8-bit, Asbestos was still being used, and, despite the numbers declining already, cigaretts were still way more common. All that as
The year is 198x. #I stare at my amber terminal. Hexadecimal fills my screen and my mind has become lost in the flow of 6502 assembly, as I hand optimize the code flow.I’m

Columns & Editorials by Steve Wood

http://www.mathdittos2.com/columns/

about using Macintosh computers for their web sites! I wrote the That Other Steve... series for the now defunct MacTimes News Network in 1998-99. The View from the Classroom serie

The Early Years of Academic Computing

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/AcademicComputing/text/dtss.html

networks of personal computers that swept universities soon afterwards. From a modern viewpoint the most surprising feature was that the entire software was developed at Dartmouth


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