2017 – Year of the Linux Desktop
In a recent post Steve Burge reflects on how Free Software has managed to spread into tech companies in a big way, but…
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Fonts, don’t come easy to me
If there’s one aspect of Linux that has more Wild West in it than a typical Charles Bronson movie, it’s fonts. Linux fonts.…
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LibreOffice extensions – Leclerc, we have a problem
Why Leclerc? Because Houston sounds American, and Leclerc sounds more French, and Libre is sort of French, ergo title. The reason why we’ve…
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The Basic Principles of Security (and Why They Matter)
To many users, security begins and ends with anti-virus and malware protection and regular software updates. But there is much more to security,…
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Give me Support or Give me Death
I guess I’m insecure like that, but I often find myself trying to rationalise my affinity for Free Software. How I do this…
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Age of Makers
The late 70s and early 80s were arguably the golden age of computer nerdiness. This was an age of innovation and invention: the…
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Spanish lawmakers to kill CC licensing and turn the country into a “digital backwater”
A new restrictive copyright legislation, ready to be passed into law in Spain, may very well hinder the interchange of ideas and render…
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Crowdfunding and Saturation
Over at Linux Magazine, Bruce Byfield has published an interesting article on Open Source and crowdfunding. Go ahead and read it. It is…
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