• 5 years of LibreOffice

    5 years of LibreOffice
    5 years of LibreOffice In 2010, shortly after Oracle's purchase of Sun, some of the OpenOffice.org developers and many members of the community (including myself), smartly decided to make a fork of that office suite to continue the work that Sun, after buying and releasing the source code of StarOffice, had started back in 1999.

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  • How to avoid PRISM with free software

    How to avoid PRISM with free software
    PRISM is a program run by the US government dedicated to spy on the communications we make through the Internet including email. In PRISM BREAK we can find free software alternatives to avoid it. "Opt out of PRISM, the NSA's global data surveillance programme. Stop reporting [...]

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  • How Patents Hinder Innovation

    An interesting infographic about how patents, in our software and hardware guild for example, can stifle free competition and the technological development they are supposedly intended to promote, if they are not used with common sense.

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