This picture is from an article that was in the UWO Gazette a couple of weeks ago. Apparently people at UWO go through about 4000 paper coffee cups a day.
4,000 cups is a lot of waste
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Monthly Archives: November 2005
Free (as in speech) hardware?
Everyone has heard of free software. How about free hardware?
Check out Ronja.
Ronja is a free technology project of reliable optical data link with current range 1.4km and current communication speed 10Mbps full duplex.
GPL licensed hardware designs. Awesome.
Software as speech
Well, my sense of software is that it’s something that is both speech and a device, depending on how you define it. When you talk about software as speech, many good things tend to flow from that. When you use software as a device you can get into great benefits and also fairly scary issues.
— Don Marti
The above was taken from the November 2005 issue of Linux Journal in an article titled “Dialogue with Don“. This article is definitely worth reading if you have access to it or can wait for it to become freely available.
Tuition referendum
So the Canadian Federation of Students is holding referenda at Universities in Ontario asking if students believe tuition fees should continue to be frozen. Students at UofT have already voted 98% in favour. The vote at Western happens today.
Asking students if they think tuition should be reduced is like asking the NRA if they think guns should be banned. The result is a foregone conclusion.
Linux as a species
Doc Searls (Linux Journal guy) has offered up another explanation of the Linux kernel. This explanation is a extension of the “Linux is the trees” analogy which has been discussed in past Linux Journal issues.
I found the link to this article on Kernel Planet.