Quick follow-up of my post on the creation of a non-free public domain.
20 years ago today, the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) released the World Wide Web in the public domain. What better example than that to illustrate the importance of the public domain in our everyday lives?
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Like in many other countries in the world, the French government and lobbies have no respect for free stuff. One of the most obvious examples is their war against piracy (not real-life-ARRGHH piracy, but movies-and-games-torrent-downloading piracy), which may have some logical points (which I don’t agree with, but that’s a different issue).
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Yesterday, on BoingBoing: FCC planning new Internet rules that will gut Net Neutrality. Get ready to pay more for the stuff you love online..
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Some time ago, I signed up on Snipt, a website that allows you to store snippets. It was a free account, that I probably used once, to test the service (only because this was not something I needed).
But yesterday I received an email from them, announcing that they will move away from free accounts. This is a fair enough decision, I can understand the need for a stable income.
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For a few years now, I’ve been using a DynDNS free account to access my personal server (at home), even though I have a dynamic IP address. This means that I’ve had a URL that would always point to my server, even when my IP would change.
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