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Closed Source and Ethics: Good, Bad, Or Ugly?

by Jono Bacon | Jun 11, 2018 | Closed Source, Free Culture, Free Software, Open Source

Recently the news broke that Microsoft are acquiring GitHub. Effusive opinions flowed from all directions: some saw the acquisition as a sensible fit for Microsoft to better support developers, and some saw it as a tyrant getting their grubby fingers on open...

Suggestions for Donating a Speaker fee

by Jono Bacon | Mar 25, 2016 | Free Culture, Free Software, Open Source, Uncategorized

In August I am speaking at Abstractions and the conference organizers very kindly offered to provide a speaker fee. Thing is, I have a job and so I don’t need the fee as much as some other folks in the world. As such, I would like to donate the speaker fee to an...

My Creative Commons Archive

by Jono Bacon | Nov 12, 2013 | Free Culture

For many years I have been a long supporter of the Creative Commons. I believe Free Culture is good for people; it brings enjoyment, encourages sharing, helps creates an archive of material others can use in their own creative endeavours and more. Over the years...

Rock For Water

by Jono Bacon | Nov 5, 2013 | Charity, Creative Commons, Free Culture

I am running a fund-raising campaign for WaterAid to provide clean and sanitary water for poorer parts of the world. Dirty water is the source of so many health problems in the world, and I hope I can help a little in the wider cause. To this end I have written and...

Announcing openrespect.org

by Jono Bacon | Nov 8, 2010 | Community, Free Culture, Planet GNOME, Ubuntu

Recently I blogged about some concerns that I have had about increasing disrespect in the Open Source, Free Software, and Free Culture communities. My blog entry shared some of the work I started on an OpenRespect Declaration, but I wasn’t sure if I should...

Canonical and Creative Commons Meet Donations Target

by Jono Bacon | Nov 9, 2009 | Canonical, Free Culture

Melissa from the Creative Commons pointed me to the rather good news that Canonical’s offer to match Creative Commons donations up to $3000 has already been matched: Just five days ago we announced that Canonical would be generously matching every donation...