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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Ubuntu has since become the most popular linux distribution for personal computers. Today, linux is just one of a vast number of open-source software projects. You can find high-quality open-source projects for videoconferencing, Web browsing, programming, word processing, making spreadsheets, modeling in three dimensions, mapping, online collaboration, and so on. These are the cultural riches of the twenty-first century—a beautiful and functional heritage of technology open for all to use, learn from, and build upon.

Put an end to spam and phishing by reforming email Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It needs to cover both the open source community -- all the linux users and the Unix users -- and of course the Microsoft and Mac world, as well. It must be an open source standard. It can't be a proprietary technology, yet it needs to be secure. It needs to be unbreakable and unhackable. There can be no back doors. The time for a move toward change is now. If we don't change, the very credibility of the email medium is at stake. If we don't change, governments are going to come in and mandate a solution that none of us want to live with. You can be sure of that.

The future of food fabrication, intellectual property and seeds Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It will be similar to the battle today between Microsoft and linux, in which the open source community has created a fantastic operating system without the promise of financial compensation. They've done it because they're a group of smart people who want to do something productive and interesting under a freely shared goodwill system. Our broken patent laws However, the biggest issue that I have is with the idea that our current patent system assigns intellectual ownership over things that were technically invented by nature, not man.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Some heavy-hitting industry analysts are already predicting that the open-source linux will pass Microsoft Windows to become the most popular operating system on the planet by the end of the decade. Open-source software would, by itself, be an important tool, but the real revolution of open source is the model itself. All around the world, people are putting the principles of open collaboration to work on all manner of projects, which far transcend the world of software. What started as a way to make better and freer software is unfolding into a model for making a better and freer future.

Today, linux is just one of a vast number of open-source software projects. You can find high-quality open-source projects for videoconferencing, Web browsing, programming, word processing, making spreadsheets, modeling in three dimensions, mapping, online collaboration, and so on. These are the cultural riches of the twenty-first century—a beautiful and functional heritage of technology open for all to use, learn from, and build upon. As in other open cultural arenas where anyone can contribute or start new projects, the material produced using open-source software varies in quality.

The computers come loaded with linux and are ready for classroom use. Yet while recycled computers are attractively cheap, they're also hazardous waste Opposite, left: The goal of the One Laptop per Child program is to make computers a tool every child can use. Opposite, right: Free Geek turns out-of-date computers into useable desktops for low-income users.

The prototype "green machine," unveiled in Tunisia at a United Nation's technology summit, runs on linux software and sports a color LCD screen, 500-megahertz processor, wireless broadband, DVD drive, and 500 megabytes of flash memory. Mesh networking capability allows the machine to communicate with its nearest neighbors, creating an ad hoc local network. A hand crank allows users to charge the battery far away from the electrical grid. The goal for production models is for one minute of cranking to generate enough battery power for a hundred minutes of use.

These networks first emerged in software, where they've built operating systems like linux at dizzying speed, with unmatched complexity and quality. But the paradigm is rapidly spreading to enfold all sorts of technical projects, from sustainable-energy systems to medical technologies for the developing world. It's even sweeping through nontechnical arenas. Nets of people are now translating schoolbooks into foreign languages for underserved communities, building online collaborative encyclopedias, and creating democratic news services.

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