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Saturday, September 20. 2008

Free software, proprietary maps?

If you didn't know it, today is Software Freedom Day.

Just noticed that, when you surf to http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/map.shtml to look if there's something happening around you on SFD, you'll get a proprietary google map.

It seems that the organizers of the SFD can't look beyond one's own nose. I often saw this behaviour in parts of the free software movement (being ignorant about proprietary stuff if it's not software), but found this example especially frightening, as we have a well working alternative.

Posted by Hanno Böck in Computer culture, English, Linux at 07:33 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Saturday, September 20. 2008

Free software, proprietary maps?

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