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Home of the BSD-GNU/Linux User community (B-GLU): join in & enjoy! ..What are BSD and GNU/Linux? - ask InfoHelp (http://www.infohelp.co.nz/linux.html).
Advocacy and Workshop details: "Current events" (http://www.hackstop.org/index.php/Current_events) + Topics and Contributor pages: "Community portal" (http://www.hackstop.org/index.php/Hackstop:Community_Portal) + Resources
Affiliations: Free Software Aotearoa New Zealand (http://www.infohelp.co.nz/fsanz-constitution.html) of GNUz (http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/gnuz) mailing list - subscribe to ask advice on software migration; and Canterbury Unix/BSD/GNU/Linux Users' Group - CUBGLUG - known simply as "CLUG": Canterbury Linux, Unix & GNU.
Watch for
Richard Stallman's New Zealand tour, coming to Christchurch 17-19 August 2008. Event details TBA.Annual main event: Software Freedom Day 8 (http://www.softwarefreedomday.org) Saturday 20 September 2008 Christchurch (http://www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd8.html) - see "Current events" (http://www.hackstop.org/index.php/Current_events)
Hackstop.org is an open umbrella project beneath which free software practitioners and service companies are developed and promoted: a BSD skill and GLU supply chain. Our method is computer education liberation, bolstering the work of the GNU Project (http://www.gnu.org) and the Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org) (FSF), by means of Freedom 05: cost-Free software - Unix is Not GNU/Linux.
Free Software advocacy and support - FreeNix!
Computer user security for the Internet age
Proprietary software is incomplete communication, compromised in content and value: mediation of human interchange has been rated above facilitation. From this inefficiency, more are derived in our computer use - all of which we must leave behind. Science advances principle. The only way to prevent a prosecuted US monopoly, owned by the world's richest man, from remotely controlling your computer operation, and charging you whatever, whenever for the privilege - and so extending the range of software crime by related exploits - is not to run a Windows(TM) desktop. Simple.
Sound political? It is. Democratic choice is being eroded as we speak, with the complicity of central governments, for an increasingly captive, fearful, and exploited global consumer market workforce. The primary alternative to this stultifying network monopoly, and its data insecurity, is to run a free, open-standard unix-like operating system and associated software. Information set free invokes collaborative improvement.
Thus free and open-source software's strongest argument is productivity. Big business and small, amateur user and professional, all stand to gain from distributed development. A market-driven, closed shop cannot compete on quality with decentralised, peer-reviewed work. Computer users pay the price of proprietary software's hidden faults with their time - patching holes, repelling virii, spyware, malware and intruders - while most of this is redundant labour, added to by the spamjunk of misplaced values. The mindshift required for free and open software migration is a challenge, like all learning. But investment in community, online safety, and in knowledge, bears incalculable returns.
Stand up for freedom. Stand with the ethically supreme and open education of Free Software. Hackstop.org shows you how.
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