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The Free Software icon that we need the most. Fifteen years ago
Today, while cleaning up old backups, I found a text file named as this post, which I saved on November 17th, 2000, but never used. Cannot remember what I was planning to do with it, but here it goes. A bit naive, surely dated (just look at which Free Software companies I was suggesting to go for help…) but still interesting, considering how things stand today. Here it goes, unchanged:
Antex answers my 2013 post
(this is the complete answer, without any change, that I just received by [Mr Colagrossi, BU-IT Direttore of the FIS / Antex Group giorgio.colagrossi@antex.it], to a post I wrote last year)
Three thoughts on the Iron Mountain tragedy
My first three thoughts after reading of the Iron Mountain fire in Buenos Aires were, in this order:
Data, file formats and protocols as the first platform of network politics
This was the abstract of a talk I proposed for a Network Politics Conference in 2011. The talk wasn’t accepted, but I’d like to restart a conversation on this topic, so here it goes.
Why free trials of certain software programs are bad
(this is a reformatted/expanded version of a comment I made in November 2013 on the Libre Office mailing list)