{"id":199,"date":"2008-07-19T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T10:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2008-07-19T11:44:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T10:44:57","slug":"free-network-services-benjamin-mako-hill-wikimania-2008-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/free-network-services-benjamin-mako-hill-wikimania-2008-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Network Services &#8211; Benjamin Mako Hill [Wikimania 2008, notes]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/43646035@N00\/483211325\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/204\/483211325_e5e7a4bc94_m.jpg\" alt=\"GIMPShopped Gulmohar\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/43646035@N00\/483211325\">Harshad Sharma<\/a> via Flickr<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Free Software Definition\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Free_Software_Definition\">Free Software Definition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The freedom to:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Computer software\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_software\">software<\/a> for any purpose (libra, not gratis)<\/li>\n<li>Study and modify<\/li>\n<li>Distribute copies to others<\/li>\n<li>Collabroate and share your changes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more at the FSF page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.html\">http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Free Software is really about <strong>Control<\/strong>. Communications technologies that we use have profound effect on how people communicate. This is immense power, that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want the companies to have.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Network Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The basic idea of network services are these tools that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run on our own computer, but somewhere on the grid. Traditionally free software requires access to my software.<\/p>\n<p>Example of network services are: Google, Facebook and even Wikipedia. These are services that most of people are spending most of their Internet time one.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The most simple positive effects of network services is that they usually work on alternative operating systems like <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Linux distribution\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux_distribution\">Linux distributions<\/a> or OS X. But it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really matter what you are running on your computer, since Google now has efficiently it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own proprietary operating system. This means that user freedom has actually decreased with time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Affero approach to opposing negative affect of network services to free software.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We need technical and legal ability to modify and protect the freedoms. In the past the Freedom worked great, because the software had to be distributed. This is a problem for network services since there is no distribution.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Affero General Public License\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Affero_General_Public_License\">Affero GPL<\/a> license (AGPL) ensures that the free software you write for networked service, the source code is released to users that uses it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LiveJournal is released under AGPL, so you can run your own version if you want.<\/p>\n<p>SourceForge also opened it, once they opened it people create GForge.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But AGPL is not enough, since we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get the data.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Autonomo.us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Group of hackers, activist, scholars and free thinkers that are exploring these issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Franklin Street Statement &#8211; <\/em>What the best practices are today for free network services.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Developers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"GNU\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/\">GNU<\/a> Affero GPL<\/li>\n<li>Develop free-licensed alternatives to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Proprietary software\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proprietary_software\">non-free<\/a> service<\/li>\n<li>Develop software that can replace centralized services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Service Providers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose Free Software<\/li>\n<li>Release customizations freely<\/li>\n<li>Make data available:<\/li>\n<li>Users should control their private data<\/li>\n<li>Data available to all users of the service should be free<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Users<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run distributed alternatives to services<\/li>\n<li>Use services that follow the guidelines above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Street Statement in full &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/autonomo.us\/2008\/07\/franklin-street-statement\/\">http:\/\/autonomo.us\/2008\/07\/franklin-street-statement\/<\/a><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/legend>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080716-autonomo-us-group-hopes-to-free-data-locked-in-web-services.html\">Autonomo.us group hopes to free data locked in web services<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/140934\">Web apps: the next battleground for FOSS?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/121751\">FSF releases license for network-distributed software<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/139885\">GPLv3, one year later<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/fieldset>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/506de260-72db-4d46-926d-19c26a3371ae\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_c.png?x-id=506de260-72db-4d46-926d-19c26a3371ae\" alt=\"Zemanta Pixie\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Harshad Sharma via Flickr Free Software Definition \u00c2\u00a0 The freedom to: \u00c2\u00a0 Use software for any purpose (libra, not gratis) Study and modify Distribute copies to others Collabroate and share your changes \u00c2\u00a0 Read more at the FSF page: http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.html \u00c2\u00a0 Free Software is really about Control. 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