Society wants to incentivise creativity and private enterprise.
Copyrights patents and trademarks have emerged as a protection of what we today call intellectual property.
There are plenty of examples when these serve a useful purpose, however excessive extensions to the expiration of copyright as well as harmful patent trolls show the negative side of this arrangement.
Open source software and hardware has emerged as a powerful alternative that is compatible with profit making but also with building a Commons benefiting everybody inclusively.
The efficiency of a system is its ability to produce a certain amount of output per unit of input. Its resilience is its ability...
Are you worried about bots, and spam accounts and fake accounts on the various social media platforms? You could decide that this worry should...
Recently I was able to observe a team member exerting real violence on software tools that he was using for completely unintended purposes. Why?...
