Free and Freedoms aka the Instagram drift
Update 12/18 7:15pm: Instragram explains. I don’t think it will change my view, we’ll see. For context, from the late 1970’s until, well probably 2002 I spent a considerable time arguing for free software. Free as in rights, not as in beer, as early as 1985 I had a letter in Computer Weekly on the topic. Over the last few years, the explosion of free “as in beer” software has been staggering, everything from Facebook, and the google empire. Increasingly the amount of advertising is making the apps unusable, and their claims of ownership over your personal information, and the content that you create … Continue reading Free and Freedoms aka the Instagram drift