Positive Internet Blog http://www.positiveinternet.com/rss/positive-internet-blog en Positive Internet 2006 120 Richard Stallman speaks tonight in Boston about SOPA, PIPA and Internet Freedom http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/richard-stallman-speaks-tonight-in-boston-about-sopa-pipa-and-internet-freedom There is still some space available to hear the founder of the Free Software movement and President of The Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman speak about the proposed SOPA and PIPA laws and what we need to do to secure the freedom and power of the Internet.

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:57:57 +0000 http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/richard-stallman-speaks-tonight-in-boston-about-sopa-pipa-and-internet-freedom Scott Molski Free hosting for sites participating in the SOPA & PIPA blackout http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/free-hosting-sopa-pipa-protest-education Positive Internet is pleased to offer free hosting for sites participating in the SOPA & PIPA blackout today, January 18, 2012

The Positive Internet Company, a specialist GNU/Linux hosting, cloud services provider and Free and Open Source software advocate, supports its clients who are shutting down the

]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:27:31 +0000 http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/free-hosting-sopa-pipa-protest-education Scott Molski Dr. Richard Stallman to speak in Boston about Freedom in "the cloud", SOPA and PIPA http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/rms-stallman-boston-pipa-sopa-cloud-boston On Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 6:30pm in Boston, MA, Dr.

]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:27:39 +0000 http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/rms-stallman-boston-pipa-sopa-cloud-boston Scott Molski What's SOPA and why is Wikipedia down? http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/wikipedia-down-sopa-protest The Wikipedia community made a bold move in joining the January 18th protest against SOPA. They "blocked" their English-language site for the day.

]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:33:29 +0000 http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/wikipedia-down-sopa-protest Scott Molski Happy PosiDays! http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/2011-holidays Excuses, excuses! We have been rather busy this last year establishing our new PosiCloud and CloudCare Managed Cloud services, gliding more and more clients over the PCI compliance mountain and, as ever, helping some of the most popula

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From our colleagues at Positve UK:

The only thing more amazing than the Internet is how we take it for granted.

]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:07:20 +0000 http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/positive-internet-against-sopa Scott Molski Are online merchants ready for IRS 6050W? http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/irs-6050w-reporting-of-payment-card-income-ecommerce Are online merchants prepared to meet the new IRS requirements now that we are a mere five months away from the date personal returns, and usually that means small business returns as well, are due? Most commonly known as IRS 6050W, the new tax law that requires payment processors such as PayPal and other merchant acc

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:44:00 +0000 http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/irs-6050w-reporting-of-payment-card-income-ecommerce Scott Molski Total Cost of Ownership of Open Source Systems http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/open-source-systems-tco Today, Glyn Moody of Computer World to another look at the classic enterprise debate of open source vs proprietary systems total cost of ownership.

]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:56:13 +0000 http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/open-source-systems-tco Scott Molski US Government Seizes the most domains ever in Black Friday "In Our Sites" raid http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/black-friday-government-website-seizure It is widely reported that the US Federal Government once again seized a large number of domains of websites that they believed sold counterfeit goods. In this round, the authorities timed the seizure to coincide with Cyber Monday, though according domain registrar records, sites were seized on Black Friday.

]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:50:04 +0000 http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/black-friday-government-website-seizure Scott Molski Be Thankful For Free Software http://www.positiveinternet.com/blog/be-thankful-for-free-software Yet another year has passed and the great American holiday of Thanksgiving is upon us. A long weekend to enjoy some time off with great food and friends and family.

In addition to everything else in life, we all need to be thankful to the great community of free and open software developers.

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