User contributions for Ciaran

7 September 2010

• 13:5913:59, 7 September 2010 diff hist +131‎ Gowers review on intellectual property ‎ →‎International Association of Music Libraries: ==External links== * [http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Gowers_Review_of_Intellectual_Property ESP notes on the software patents finding]
• 13:5213:52, 7 September 2010 diff hist −50‎ Gowers review on intellectual property ‎ Revert edits by a SPAMBOT Undo revision 20733 by Loretta (Talk)
• 13:4913:49, 7 September 2010 diff hist −368‎ David Heyes MP ‎ →‎Early Day Motions: User:Jamesolmstead is a SPAMBOT - reverted its edits
• 13:4813:48, 7 September 2010 diff hist −260‎ David Heyes MP ‎ →‎Surgeries: REMOVED SPAM - is anyone monitoring RecentChanges for spam?

27 August 2009

• 01:5101:51, 27 August 2009 diff hist +20‎ m Free software ‎ →‎External links: Category:Issues
• 01:4901:49, 27 August 2009 diff hist +5‎ m Free software ‎ typos

26 August 2009

• 11:0811:08, 26 August 2009 diff hist −466‎ Free software ‎ tweak intro and first section; remove 2nd section since it's redundant

17 August 2009

• 20:0220:02, 17 August 2009 diff hist +463‎ m Free software ‎ →‎How these freedoms affect you: more descriptive
• 19:4319:43, 17 August 2009 diff hist +18‎ m Free software ‎ actually, they're not "rights", you can't go to court and say "I have a right to copy this software", they're just freedoms with respect to the author

11 August 2009

• 08:3108:31, 11 August 2009 diff hist +28‎ m Electronic Voting ‎ →‎Publicly readable software: clearer: Richard Stallman explains why this is not a solution:

10 August 2009

• 22:4722:47, 10 August 2009 diff hist +44‎ m Electronic Voting ‎ →‎Publicly readable software: add reference for the quote http://fsffrance.org/voting/voting.en.html
• 22:4522:45, 10 August 2009 diff hist +30‎ m Free software ‎ →‎External links: Category:Digital Rights
• 22:4222:42, 10 August 2009 diff hist +576‎ Electronic Voting ‎ →‎Publicly read: The idea of using a free software system in voting machines is sometimes mistakenly proposed as a solution. As Richard Stallman says, "''The danger is that someone could fiddl
• 21:2521:25, 10 August 2009 diff hist +10‎ m Free software ‎ improve definition; make it a section so that the menu is more visible

7 August 2009

• 19:5319:53, 7 August 2009 diff hist +251‎ Free software ‎ →‎DRM: On an individual level, if you use free software, you can be sure that you won't face DRM restrictions. At the societal level, as the number of users of free software increases, the potenti

5 August 2009

• 12:4212:42, 5 August 2009 diff hist +11‎ m Free software ‎ →‎Privacy: clarify that it's privacy protection

4 August 2009

• 19:4019:40, 4 August 2009 diff hist +87‎ m Free software ‎ →‎External links: * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software Wikipedia's Free Software portal]
• 19:3919:39, 4 August 2009 diff hist +78‎ m OpenDocument ‎ →‎Not Open Source, nor is it Free, Software: free software can be commercial too, and what this article was calling "commercial software" can cost nothing: freeware
• 19:3519:35, 4 August 2009 diff hist +578‎ m Free software ‎ Free software's licences and it's social system prevent it from being used to curtail your rights regarding use of software.
• 19:2919:29, 4 August 2009 diff hist 0‎ m Libraries Archives Copyright Alliance ‎ typos
• 19:2919:29, 4 August 2009 diff hist 0‎ m Digital Rights Management ‎ typos
• 19:2719:27, 4 August 2009 diff hist 0‎ m APIG DRM Inquiry Submission ‎ typos
• 19:2519:25, 4 August 2009 diff hist 0‎ m Gowers review on intellectual property ‎ typo
• 19:2419:24, 4 August 2009 diff hist 0‎ m Digital Rights Issues ‎ typo
• 19:0619:06, 4 August 2009 diff hist +13‎ m Template:CurrentIssuesList ‎ tweak description of free software's relevance

3 August 2009

• 21:5021:50, 3 August 2009 diff hist +563‎ Free software ‎ explain, restructure
• 20:3820:38, 3 August 2009 diff hist +109‎ Template:CurrentIssuesList ‎ * Free software protects people's rights, encourages user communities, and helps people use their rights

1 August 2009

• 14:5414:54, 1 August 2009 diff hist −3‎ m APIG DRM Inquiry Submission ‎ →‎Do new types of content sharing licenses (such as Creative Commons or Copyleft) need legislative change to be effective?: fs
• 14:5014:50, 1 August 2009 diff hist +932‎ How to stay private ‎ →‎Online Banking & Shopping: The workings of free software, can be viewed and modified by anyone. This means you, or any user can audit the software for privacy issues. If you're using widely
• 13:4013:40, 1 August 2009 diff hist 0‎ m Free software ‎ free software doesn't protect against spelling mistakes
• 13:3913:39, 1 August 2009 diff hist +73‎ Free software ‎ give headings to the arguments
• 13:3613:36, 1 August 2009 diff hist +5‎ m Software patents ‎ →‎Anti Software Patent Arguments: free software community
• 13:3313:33, 1 August 2009 diff hist +4‎ m Lord Harris of Haringey ‎ →‎Open Source: free software movement
• 13:3213:32, 1 August 2009 diff hist +18‎ m Digital rights books and texts ‎ →‎S: Free Software, Free Society -> link to fs article
• 13:2913:29, 1 August 2009 diff hist +4‎ m Copyright Extension ‎ link to fs article
• 13:2813:28, 1 August 2009 diff hist +4‎ m Digital Rights Management ‎ link to fs article
• 13:2713:27, 1 August 2009 diff hist +27‎ Nm Free and open-source software ‎ #REDIRECT free software current
• 13:2713:27, 1 August 2009 diff hist +4‎ m APIG DRM Public Inquiry ‎ →‎[[UK Unix Users' Group]]: free and open-source software
• 13:2513:25, 1 August 2009 diff hist +305‎ Talk:Main Page ‎ New section: Advocating free software
• 13:2213:22, 1 August 2009 diff hist +21‎ m Talk:Main Page ‎ ==Intro suggestion==
• 13:2113:21, 1 August 2009 diff hist +39‎ Nm Digital Restrictions Management ‎ #REDIRECT Digital Rights Management current
• 13:1913:19, 1 August 2009 diff hist +1,343‎ N Free software ‎ '''Free software''' (or "'''open-source software'''") is software which can be studied, copied, modified, and redistributed by its users.
• 13:1913:19, 1 August 2009 diff hist +27‎ Nm Open source ‎ #REDIRECT free software current
• 12:1412:14, 1 August 2009 diff hist +1‎ m Software patents ‎ →‎Links: improve formatting (after my previous edit to add swpat.org links)
• 12:1112:11, 1 August 2009 diff hist +323‎ Software patents ‎ →‎Links: I added links to swpat.org and its 3 UK pages - I run swpat.org, so I could be biased, but I think it's useful
• 12:0112:01, 1 August 2009 diff hist +279‎ N User:Ciaran ‎ I'm '''Ciarán O'Riordan''', interested in free software, software patents, and software licences. current