After more then five years suffering from parkinson's disesease I've been hospitalized for two months due to inadequate medication.

This does not mean the Relative Foundation will cease to exist, on the contrary, we have great plans for it..

The quality of a product depends on the 'components' or other products its built with, using Open Source licenses you can create a better product by sharing your recipe so that others might improve it. Development costs can be covered by funds invested due to the need for your produce or support/guarantees you offer. In the ICT sector, this concept is already proven by Google for instance (Android OS).

The evolution of the microchip.

Nowadays computer components are cheap, and in combination with high-speed Internet they offer a whole new range of possibilities like centralized information storage.

Governments and commercial parties are massively adopting this principle, and a few scenarios are not always carefully considered.

The advantages are clear and include lower Maintenance costs and easier access to information.

Once upon a time..

As long as computers exist, there have been people around who find delight in taking apart, analyzing and modifying/rebuilding (new) technology to their own needs. At a certain point in history, this phenomena was called hacking. For example Linus Torvalds, the guy who reverse engineered the Unix kernel into the Linux kernel, is a kernel hacker.