Technology Links

• LAMP - Our hosting platform: Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP
• Open Anywhere Office FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions regarding Egressive's Open Anywhere Office service
• OpenVPN Howto - How to set up OpenVPN, particularly to access Egressive's Open Anywhere Office

Important Political Links

• Perils of Proprietary Formats - some of the reasons to be wary of proprietary file formats, e.g. Microsoft Office's DOC, XLS, and PPT formats.
• Scrooge and intellectual property rights - how the warped concept of "Intellectual Property" is stifling the innovation it was supposed to encourage... and it's killing people. Author Joseph E Stiglitz (professor, Columbia University) won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001.

Links to Video talks on Open Source

An amazing talk by Eben Moglen, a leader of the open source software movement, describing the rise of collaborative development and global infrastructure as represented by open source software development in economic terms. Software is the new steel... but it allows us to live up to the capitalist ideal (sell them everything, give them nothing) while simultaneously satisfying moral imperatives of community.