A new front in the ever-lasting struggle for social freedom has been opened: it's all about access to knowledge, information and non-material goods. The growth of legislation on monopoly over information (often called Intellectual property Law by some lawyers), threaten to further emphasize the social differences, slow down scientific development, expand monopolization of knowledge and finally concentrate power in the hands of big corporations.

The fact that this non-material segments of production are central to the process of construction of tomorrows “Information society” led to development of legislation which puts the control upon them.

Created once to protect and encourage progressive inventions, in the time of digital information that is not exhausted by its use, they became the obstacle to the development process and steel door of a new networked society.

By creation of rules in the field of economy of knowledge, rich countries assured constant flow of funds from third world countries. Good case of corporate profit being put over public interest are pharmaceutical industries that use this laws to protect their own profits, while one third of the world's population lacks access to essential drugs. READ MORE

30.06.2008 The United Kingdom Unix User Group (Ukuug) is appealing the High Court`s initial rejection to review the decision by the British Standards Institution (BSI) to vote in favour of OOXML at a recent ballot at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

23.04.2008 The Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Serbia (MTID) announced that, between March 25 and April 9, 2008, over 20,000 copies of localized free software packages were downloaded from its servers by the citizens of Serbia.

14.06.2006 Fouad Riaz Bajwa, the Head of the FOSS Foundation of Pakistan, sent and open letter to all concerned global FOSS Bodies, ICT stakeholders & UN-GAID, protesting the selection of members of UN-GAID Council and Committees. During the process, the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Movement was completely ignored.

26.03.2008 On the occasion of Document Freedom day, apc.au (formally c2o / Toy Satellite) releases 10 years of essays, lectures, reports and articles dealing with information communication technologies for cultural development (ICT4CD).