Analytics Governments Are Spending Billions on Software They Can Get with Freedom How a Software is Owned In the proprietary software world, when software is released, and when users buy that software, they don’t usually buy the entire software, but instead, they buy what’s known as an end-user license agreement (EULA). This EULA gives them the right to do only some specific things with that software. Usually, […] February 14, 2019April 16, 2019
Analytics Dark Days are Waiting the Open Internet There’s no argument that the Internet is one of the backbones of the modern world today. Yet, it seems that we are heading toward the end of the open Internet on the long run; An Internet that respects the user privacy & security, and protects him both from censorship and tracking seems to be long […] December 10, 2018April 16, 2019
Analytics A Privacy & Security Concern Regarding GNOME Software GNOME Software is the default application in the GNOME desktop environment to manage software. It also allows you to receive firmware updates through an underlaying daemon called “fwupd“, which is based on an platform called “LVFS“. In order to understand the relationship in a clearer way, you can think of LVFS as the online platform […] April 13, 2018April 16, 2019
Opinions People Should Really Be Thankful For Free Software Developers Users don’t usually realize the value of free software they get for free. Things like Linux, LibreOffice, Inkscape, GIMP and a lot of other free software may be essential in the daily life of each of us. However, we may not actually feel “pleasure” for those software developers who provided us with all of this. […] August 13, 2017July 22, 2019
Tutorials 7 Tips to Reduce Battery Usage on Linux Battery usage on Linux may be a big problem for many users, depending on the distribution you use and the hardware you have, you may face this problem from time to time, and we have some solutions to help you through this. But First, Why Battery Usage On Linux is So High? You have to […] August 4, 2016April 16, 2019
Interviews Meet Ali Abdulghani, a Blind Programmer Working in the field of Open Source It’s rare actually to hear about people with such will and desire to continue their lives even though they suffer such tragic disabilities, for this, meet “Ali Abdulghani”, an Iraqi young man working in the field of free and open-source software although he is completely blind! Who said that you should be useless when you can’t […] July 18, 2016April 16, 2019
