It was for no particular reason that on Monday, 3d of June, I picked the „linux-bangalore.org/2004“ t-shirt from the pile. Or so I thought. When next day I received an e-mail from Harald Welte informing me that Atul Chitnis (on… Mehr lesen >
Munich’s LiMux project announced that on 12.12.2011 the 9,000th PC workstation in the city’s administration was migrated to the new LiMux Client, putting the project ahead of its schedule. With a few exceptions all MS Office suits have been uninstalled… Mehr lesen >
The multi-stakeholder Global Congress, convened in Washington, DC on 25-27 August 2011, issued The Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. A powerful statement for the public welfare purposes, such as education and health, that all legal protection… Mehr lesen >
On 25-27 August 2011 the American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC will host a Global Congress, no less. If you want to participate in „one of the most important meetings on international intellectual property law and policy… Mehr lesen >
re-mi-x-erogra-philist-er-kenntnisse Zu Kunst und Recht der Re-Kreativität (März 2009) Volker Grassmuck erschienen in: Odin Kroeger, Günther Friesinger, Paul Lohberger und Eberhard Ortland, Hg., Geistiges Eigentum und Originalität: Zur Politik der Wissens- und Kulturproduktion, pp. 199-213, Wien: Turia + Kant, 2011.
Richard Stallman today published an Open Letter to Brazil’s President Elect Dilma Rousseff and the Citizens of Brazil. The founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation congratulates Brazil on its readiness to introduce the freedom to file-share… Mehr lesen >
Shortly before my KLM 747 landed in São Paulo yesterday the in-flight entertainment system crashed. And re-booted. And up comes not what you would have expected but a friendly Tux. No Flying-Bluescreen but free software above the skies. Click image… Mehr lesen >
Wissenskommunismus und Wissenskapitalismus Volker Grassmuck vorgetragen auf dem Symposium „Der Karlsruher Ansatz der integrierten Wissensforschung“, Uni Karlsruhe, 22.-23.2.02 Ich möchte Sie bitten, sich eine gewaltige mähdrescherartige Maschine vorzustellen , die sich in den Regenwald hineinfrißt. Die Bäume, die… Mehr lesen >