Land of the free is land of the dead

The web defined a lot of lives and set new laws of economics that baffled most scholars, with new business models that not only benefits entrepreneur with capital but also garage kids in third world with bright ideas.
This notion is very visible with the explosion of high speed broadband, low price of storage capacity and […]

Stallman: If you want freedom don’t follow Linus Torvalds

“Please don’t call GNU ‘Linux’,” says Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation. In this interview, he also asks readers whether they will fight for freedom or be too lazy to resist.
You launched the GNU Project in September 1983 to create a free Unix-like operating system, and have been the project’s lead architect […]

How Gene Patents Are Putting Your Health at Risk

From Lori Andrews, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, who chaired the federal ethics advisory committee to the Human Genome Project.
A fifth of your genes belong to someone else. That’s because the U.S. Patent Office has given various labs, companies and universities the rights to 20% of the genes found in everyone’s DNA— with […]