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Dunajská vlna & Čankišou
I’d like to promote two of the current music crowdfunding campaigns on Hithit that are approaching their ends. They ask money for new CDs and while they’ve already gathered more than two thirds of the target amounts, they haven’t reached the targets yet (as of today). IMO both the campaigns are very much worth to […]
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25 years of Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) celebrates 25 years of its existence this month. AFAIK the EFF makes a lot of useful work defending civil liberties, fair competition and consumer rights in the areas of computing and the Internet. One of good ways to participate is to financially support the EFF if you haven’t done so yet. […]
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International Day Against DRM
Today is the International Day Against DRM. I’m afraid we are not any better than a year ago. OTOH, we’re probably also not worse. Hmm. What to do?
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Czech translation of DRM flyer
Czech translation of FSF DRM flyer is available now. If you can help improve it, please look at the translation coordination page and follow the instructions, or contact me.
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Debian 8 released and Microsoft celebrates
Debian 8 was successfully released yesterday. Good news, reason to celebrate and I look forward to upgrade my machines during the next weeks (and also wonder how some things will work with systemd). But there is another interesting news: Microsoft celebrates Debian 8 release too. The company makes some good steps under the new management. […]
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How Internet Explorer supported free software
Internet Explorer, the nightmare of all web developers and many Internet users, the vendor lock-in application of the worst kind, has significantly contributed to the advancement of free software. How is it possible that such a product could help us? When Internet Explorer appeared all the (at the time) modern and popular web browsers were […]
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25 years of Indies Records
I had the opportunity to attend the 25th anniversary festival of Indies Records last month. Indies Records, founded 25 years ago and later split to Indies Scope, Indies MG and Indies Happy Trails, has always been a great music label supporting Czech high quality alternative and non-commercial music. They did a lot of hard work […]
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GCompris crowd funding campaign
GCompris is a great software collection and our children have been enjoying it a lot during the years. The project runs a crowd funding campaign now to make an improved graphics. I like the opportunity to support such a great project.
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Snowdrift project
The Snowdrift project looks interesting. Its purpose is to help funding free works in a sustainable way and without commercial pressures. I don’t know whether it will work (who knows?) but it’s worth to try.
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Moving to WordPress
For several reasons, I decided to move my Web pages to WordPress. I tried to retain the most important content and URLs from the old pages. If there is something wrong or you miss something, please let me know. If you know some simple clean WordPress themes, I’d like to know too.