Collection of articles regarding online freedom/liberty/privacy

Many of the articles here come from places like Slashdot and Kuro5hin. I'm not addicted enough to those kinds of sites, and I haven't read a tenth of promil of the articles there, and linked here only the ones which I read and found relevant/interesting. If you want more, go to those sites directly, you'll probably find much more of interest there.

Free software/information, licensing, and law issues

• 2002-09-07 – An article at Advogato about freedom of choice – and the way sticking to one software development methodology, be it (just some examples) commercial, proprietary, or free software, hurts us in general.
• 2002-02-07 – An article from Eric S. Raymond about the case of Quake cheats as considered by John Carmack, CEO of Id Software, on the release of the Quake source code under the GNU GPL.
• 2001-05-07 – An article at Slashdot about the EULA (End User License Agreement) of Microsoft's Mobile Internet Toolkit, or rather, about the section in it prohibition the use of the SDK to develop free software under many common licenses (Including the GNU General Public License, the Artistic license, the Mozilla Public License, and any license which prevents you from re-licensing your software under another license, A.K.A copyleft). The link to Microsoft's EULA there is broken, and I couldn't find it (please contact me if you know where it can be found), but I can copy the quote which appeared there (at Slashdot) from it with the relevant clause word by word. Take a look here. This is defining the GNU GPL (and other copyleft licenses) as viral software
• 2001-03-07 – An article at Kuro5hin about the future of information rights.

Privacy and personal information issues

• Well, not really an article, but an RFC regarding Spam... RFC 3098 will most probably not help the existing spammers, but more likely help the ones who are not understand what is bad about it.

Freedom of access to technology issues

• Afghanistan bans the Internet

Miscellaneous issues

• Another step in Microsoft's domination - Smart Tags - do you want the content you view and compose to be controlled by Microsoft?

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