1. Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software
   A Guide to Evaluating CI Technology
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Car remotely deactivated after Quebec teen refuses to pay for removal of GPS device
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 2017
   A Quebec teenager's car was remotely deactivated by a dealership after he refused to pay to remove a GPS tracking device -- one that he never wanted installed in the first place.
3. CIA sneak undetectable 'malicious' implants onto Windows OS - WikiLeaks
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   Windows machines are targeted by the CIA under 'Angelfire,' according to the latest release from WikiLeaks' 'Vault7' series. The documents detail an implant that can allow Windows machines to create undetectable libraries.
4. Defend Your Right to Repair!
   Resource Type: Article
   Software is subject to copyright, and than means that, as a rule, you might own your device but you only license the software in it. And that license (often called an “End User License Agreement”) is likely to come with any number of restrictions on your ability to tinker with your stuff.
5. EFF Fights for Common Sense, Again, in DMCA Rulemaking
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed six exemption requests with the U.S. Copyright Office today, part of the elaborate, every-three-year process to right the wrongs put in place by the Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
6. EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   The Librarian of Congress has granted security researchers and others the right to inspect and modify the software in their cars and other vehicles, despite protests from vehicle manufacturers.
7. Facebook bans developer of F.B. Purity
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   
8. Free Software Foundation
   Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
   Resource Type: Article
   A non-profit corporation founded to support the free software movement.
9. Ines of My Soul
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   
10. IntelligentSearch.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
11. Managing Your Documentation Projects
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    This practical, compact text demonstrates how to start, maintain, and complete documentation projects in a timely, high-quality fashion.
12. Microsoft vs. General Motors
    Resource Type: Article
    If Microsoft made cars.
13. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
14. Neatline
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    In the broadest sense, Neatline is an annotation framework that makes it possible to create rich, interactive editions of visual objects. In the past, the project has focused on maps, but Neatline can also be used to annotate anything that has some sort of visual instantiation - the same set of vector-drawing and content management tools can be used to create interpretive views of paintings, drawings, photographs, documents, diagrams, and anything else that can be captured as an image.
15. Omeka: Serious Web Publishing
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog.
    Omeka is a Swahili word meaning to display or lay out wares; to speak out; to spread out; to unpack.
    Omeka falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems.
    Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability.
    Until now, scholars and cultural heritage professionals looking to publish collections-based research and online exhibitions required either extensive technical skills or considerable funding for outside vendors. By making standards based, serious online publishing easy, Omeka puts the power and reach of the web in the hands of academics and cultural professionals themselves.
16. Open-source Software
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Computer software that is available in source code form for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software.
17. Permissive Free Software Licence
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    
18. Philosophy of the GNU Project
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A collection of essays dealing with the ideas behind the GNU Project.
19. The Software Freedom Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Nicolson-Owens thinks that Alfredo Lopez’s article, "Stallman, FOSS and the Adobe Nightmare," gets some of Richard Stallman’s message wrong and ends up giving the open source movement credit for a freedom-based philosophy the open source movement disagrees with.
20. Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    One of the trends we've seen is how, as the word of the NSA's spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. With a few small steps, you can make that kind of surveillance a lot more difficult and expensive, both against you individually, and more generally against everyone.
21. TPP Undermines User Control and That's Disastrous for Accessibility
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens all users' ability to access information and participate in culture and innovation online, but it's especially severe for those with disabilities or who otherwise depend on content in accessible formats. That's because it doubles down on broken policies that were heavily lobbied for by Hollywood and other major publishers that impede the distribution of accessible works.
22. Tucows
    Resource Type: Website
    Free software and shareware downloads.
23. Volkswagen and the Quandary of Hidden Code
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    After Volkswagen's emissions-rigging scandal, Blunden states that this company is not the only one engaging in the practice of secretly modifying technology. Rather, systematic hidden codes are embedded in society and promoted by both companies and governments.
24. Where the free software movement went wong-and how to fix it.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Finley discusses the differences between Free Software and OpenSource software from a political perspective.
25. Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    An article decoding the important differences in terminology, underlying philosophy, and value systems between two similar categories of software.
26. Why We Need "Free Software" Voting Machines
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Argues that voting machines can’t be made more trustworthy by making source code to them available. The benefits for sharing and modifying voting machine source code lie elsewhere. Voting machine software should not be proprietary.
27. Worditout
    Resource Type: Website
    A site for making word clouds.
28. Wordle
    Resource Type: Website
    Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
29. Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    There are a number of words and phrases that GNU recommends avoiding, or avoiding in certain contexts and usages. Some are ambiguous or misleading; others presuppose a viewpoint that GNU disagrees with, and they hope you disagree with it too.

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