From: "Good Soldier Svejk" <goodsoldiersvejk-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: AUT: Politically useful software. Was: Security on the web and in e-mail
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 01:24:46 +0100


Chris wrote:

Apple is also an alternative, though I sure as hell can't afford a Mac.
Still, OS X is very nice and very powerful and has a wide range of popular
politically useful software available for it, such as the Adobe and Quark
multi-media and desktop publishing software.  If you can't switch to Linux
for some reason, go Apple if you can afford to (only worth it, IMO, if you
go OS X.)

Question for everyone: what do you think is politically useful software?
Obviously, any text editor is politically useful in that you can write
tracts and screeds, and anything that cracks copyrights is political, but do
people think there's anything that is useful for *explicitly* political
reasons?

Off the top of my head, something that scans political websites for updates
would be useful (tho' really those websites should be producing an RDF
feed); perhaps something that pulls the interesting stories off indymedia (I
don't know about elsewhere, but uk.indymedia gets clogged up with all sorts
of nazi / conspiracy theory shit).

Of course, something that can pull stock market prices off dowjones or ftse,
and show the inevitability of the declining rate of surplus value, would
also
be handy. (Joke! Joke!)

And if anyone knows any good anarcho-commie-tech sites, I'd be very
interested.

John




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