Ed writes that he finds atheists depressing when they throw away the "real message" of religion. .. Ed writes: http://www.buzzwordoverload.co.uk/blogs/bigbadblog/?p=14 As an atheist, I have...

http://matthewhelmke.net/index.php/2007/12/23/24-holiday-greetings-and-hyper-sensitivity

"the doctrine of opposition to the separation of church and state." An unfortunately common stance in the US, especially given that many of the...

It occurred to me, sitting on the train to visit my parents, that there's a major flaw in George Bush's War on Terror; that is,...

It is often claimed that there are no contradictions in the Bible. It is also often claimed that this is a lot of bollocks. Just...

From http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62035655,00.htm: > Chizen characterized the open-source community as taking its inspiration > from commercial companies. "The open-source community takes a lot of the >...

Mark Pilgrim writes about [the future of reading][]. Read it, think about it. Also, read rms' essay [The Right to Read][]. [the future of reading]:...

There's been discussion some time back (September or so) about the use of BSD-licenced code (wireless drivers from OpenBSD) in the Linux kernel; specifically, that...

A while back, after all the uproar with Ubuntu including proprietary, binary drivers, Mark Shuttleworth announced that there'd be a version of Ubuntu with nothing...

Some time ago, Eric Raymond (pioneer of the open source movement, as opposed to the free software movement) wrote a paper in which he, basically,...

One of the controversies about the GNU Free Documentation Licence__ is that it allows the inclusion of "invariant sections", sections which are not relevant to...

I dislike the term "Open Source"; it's generally used by people who don't care about the ethical or philosophical reasons for using free software, instead...