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Philips and the Cassette: How Sharing Changed The World

The Revolution in a Plastic Box It was 1962 when Philips unveiled the compact cassette: a small, portable tape that would conquer the music world. But instead of shielding the technology with patents,...

Jan 7, 2026

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Radio Kootwijk: A Beacon of Independence in a Connected World

Why the Dutch Built Radio Kootwijk In the early 20th century, the Dutch government faced a pressing challenge: how to maintain direct, reliable communication with its distant colony, the Dutch East In...

Dec 29, 2025

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The Great Tide of Change: How Industrial Revolutions Reshaped the World of Work

The blacksmith’s hammer fell for the last time in the quiet village of Udenhout, the Netherlands, in 1825. For generations, his family had shaped iron by hand, crafting horseshoes, tools, and the occa...

Dec 9, 2025

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The Stockholm Syndrome and Addiction to Microsoft

Microsoft’s Deliberate Strategy: Piracy as a Trojan Horse In the early 1990s, Microsoft’s dominance in the personal computing market was not solely a result of technological superiority, but also of a...

Dec 1, 2025

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Free Software: Ethics, Freedom, and the Power of Liberation

Introduction The debate between "free software" and "open source" is not just about terminology, it reflects afundamental divide in values and goals. While both movements advocate for software that us...

Nov 28, 2025

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The Ethics of Free Software: Freedom, Misuse, and the Path Forward

The debate over the ethics of free and open source software (FOSS) is as old as the movement itself. At its core, FOSS is built on the principles of transparency, collaboration, and user autonomy, val...

Nov 19, 2025

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From Bricks to Code

In my youth, Lego was more than just a toy, it was a gateway to endless imagination and an earlylesson in collaboration and reuse. Every birthday or holiday, my brother and I would eagerlyunwrap new L...

Nov 10, 2025

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Sovereignty Washing

The Rise of Sovereignty Washing In 2024 and 2025, the term "sovereignty washing" gained traction as critics exposed how major tech companies—Microsoft, Amazon, and Google—promote "sovereign cloud" sol...

Oct 23, 2025

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The day all communication stopped

The Communication Network for When the World Goes Dark Imagine waking up to a world where a catastrophic event has rendered all modern communication networks useless. Your phone is dead, the internet ...

Oct 21, 2025

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A Global Reply: Building Better Alternatives to Big Tech—From Europe to India and Southeast Asia

Introduction: Why This Matters Bert Hubert’s manifest is a crucial wake-up call for the European open-source community. His points—user experience, service-first delivery, privacy, and avoiding “Ameri...

Oct 6, 2025

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Breaking the Algorithmic Echo Chamber

It was a Tuesday afternoon when Sarah, a software developer in Amsterdam, scrolled through her social media feed and realized something unsettling. Every post, every article, every video seemed to mir...

Oct 6, 2025

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The New Chains: How America’s Digital Empire Replaced Old Colonialism, and How the World is Fighting Back

Prologue: The Liberators Who Never Left The year was 1945. The war was over. Europe lay in ruins, its cities bombed to skeletal remains, its people starving. From the west came the Americans, not as c...

Oct 2, 2025

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