"American software freedom activist Richard Stallman, better known as the author of GNU General Public License, joined RT to give his comments on modern software copyright laws, and the risks of cyber sneaking. The interview is available in Ogg Theora format..."
Read more »“US copyright law is far too strict” – GNU founder
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DFEY-NW Meeting April
DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth) is a group formed in response from a growing need in the Northwest of England for a group to encourage and promote young people's involvement with the free software community by creating a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get involved with GLUGs and FSUGs.
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DRM and the Nintendo DSi
"It’s rare that people are familiar with both free software and gaming, so I feel I ought to offer my opinion here. Everyone knows that Nintendo has been shouting about its “new” handheld console. With not one but two shiny new cameras, larger screens and hopefully better batteries than the DS Lite, what’s not to like about the DSi? ..."
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Top 15 Creative and Hilarious Acronym Expansions of Emacs
We all know that Emacs stands for "Editor MACroS", but several creative people have given the feature-rich text editor some innovative and rather funny definitions.
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Memo to Canonical: Follow Red Hat’s Partner Lead
A landmark event occurred today when the Open Source Channel Alliance launched. Although far from perfect, the alliance shows that Linux and open source applications are gaining momentum with mid-market resellers and solutions providers. The problem: Red Hat is a driving force in the alliance, and Canonical isn't involved.
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DeltaH CD 2.2 gNewSense Release
The gNewSense project is pleased to announce version 2.2 of its 100%
FSF Free GNU/Linux distribution. This is the second point update to the
release codenamed 'deltah'.
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FSFE Fellowship interview with Myriam Schweingruber
Myriam Schweingruber is a devoted Free Software advocate with a flair for convincing people. Having worked as a translator, a school teacher and a pharmacist, Myriam is quite experienced in the art of communication, and gives a clear impression of trustworthiness.
Read more »the voting has begun -- and if you're in the wikipedia world, please participate
"I can't begin to describe how rewarding it is to see the voting start on the question whether WIkipedia should exercise an option granted to it by the Free Software Foundation to relicense Wikipedia under the CC-BY-SA license. I am very hopeful the community will choose to exercise that option..."
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FSFE seeking Executive Director
"FSFE was established in 2001 as a multi-cultural distributed organisation with volunteers and staff distributed across various European countries. Its approach is that of a result driven NGO with emphasis on constructive dialogue for lasting political and legal change.
Read more »Stallman discusses Free Software and GPLv3
"On June 29, 2007 the Free Software Foundation released the GNU General Public License, version 3. What happened since then? I had the opportunity to discuss many subjects with FSF's founder and president Richard Stallman..."
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Steve McIntyre re-elected Debian leader
British developer Steve McIntyre has been re-elected leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project (DPL) for 2009-10.
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Try GNU + Linux: Support free software
"We believe free software provides the best way to operate your computer and we provide personal tech support for free software at no cost to you. To make this work, we need people who are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about free sofware.
Read more »FOSS Debates: Dissecting the Kernel
As the central element of Linux, the kernel is equally central to open source software in general. Because the community has such a stake in its design and success, the kernel has proven to be the hub around which much discussion revolves. The kernel's creator, Linus Torvalds, also has a stake in its success, and he takes part in the discussion.
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Linux Foundation puts work into groups
Collaboration is the soul of open source. At the Linux Foundation's annual Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, which ended last Friday, the organization unveiled new collaboration tools hosted on its website for forming and maintaining workgroups to tackle the problems that remain on Linux's horizon.
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Steve McIntyre retains Debian leadership
The results of the election for Debian Project Leader have been announced and Steve McIntyre has retained his leadership of the free software GNU/Linux distribution.
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