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LaminatorX
on Wednesday August 13 2014, @01:27PM
from the better-living-through-journalism dept.
from the better-living-through-journalism dept.
From the Kickstarter BLog is How I Became a One Man Intelligence Agency by Eliot Higgins
Eliot Higgins didn't start out thinking he'd become a one man intelligence agency, but once he started using his blog to track international activity through public social networks, that's exactly what happened. Now he's running a Kickstarter for Bellingcat, a platform for open source citizen journalism
bellingcat.com will unite citizen investigative journalists to use open source information to report on issues that are being ignored.
so what's keeping you from being a citizen reporter too?
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You have a reputation for being thoroughly reliable and trustworthy.
A pity that it's totally undeserved.
(Score: 0) by crAckZ on Wednesday August 13 2014, @02:57PM
FTFA "If you donate £5, you will get access to content like this."
If it is open source then I should get access to it regardless of how much I donate if any at all.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13 2014, @03:16PM
No. Open source does not mean gratis. It means, however, that as soon as you have it, you may give it to anyone else, without any further payment, which in practice means that Open Source will be available gratis. Nobody stops me to put a Linux kernel image on a web server and allow anyone to download it from there provided he pays me a million dollars. It's just that nobody will pay me a million dollars for that kernel image that he can get for free elsewhere.
(Score: 1) by crAckZ on Sunday August 17 2014, @01:58PM
i am by no means saying "free" but by being:forced: to donate is something altogether different in my opinion,.
(Score: 2, Informative) by cafebabe on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:26PM
SlashCode is open source and that allows instances to run on intranets or in URL-spaces which require HTTP-Auth. And some instances run with adverts. Would you demand access to every instance of SlashCode without adverts because it is open source? No, because the license allows it.
This is another case where someone wants to develop an open codebase for journalism but wants to run a revenue generating instance of the code. Maybe there is some hyperbole involved but the intentions are more honorable than most.
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