Controversial free and open-source software luminary Richard Stallman will hit Australia for an unknown period of time in October, with a keynote scheduled to be held at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
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GPLv3-licensed Open Source now dominates at Google Code
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According to data presented by DiBona, Google's Open Source programs manager, the GPLv3 license now represents more than half of the GPL licensed code that Google hosts on its Google Code site. What DiBona's data shows is that developers are embracing GPLv3 and using it for their project in growing numbers.
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A free software week in the Basque country
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With sights like the old town of San Sebastián and the Guggenheim museum at Bilbao, the Basque country in northern Spain is certainly worth a visit. But the reason that I and FSFE staffer Rainer Kersten spent a week there had nothing to do with old houses, art or pintxos.
Read more »3rd and 4th meeting of FSFE Fellowship group Slovenia
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The 3rd meeting our Fellowship group was on the 4th of March and was mainly about organizing the DFD. The next -- 4th meeting of FSFE Fellowship group Slovenia took place on the 6th of July and although there was only five of us present, it was pretty important.
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R.I.P. OpenSolaris
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Goodbye, OpenSolaris. It's been fun knowing you. Unfortunately for you, it's become all too clear that your new parent company, Oracle, doesn't want a thing to do with you.
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Women in free software: recommendations from the Women's Caucus
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Nearly a year ago the FSF held a mini-summit for women in free software to investigate practical ways to increase the number of women involved in the free software community. Those that attended the summit formed the Women's Caucus, and have been working to develop practical policy to recommend to the FSF and the wider free software community.
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RMS: You shouldn't write software to use .NET. No exceptions.
The basic point is that Microsoft has patents over features in .NET, and its patent promise regarding free software implementations of those is inadequate. It may someday attack the free implementations of these features.
How to help someone use a computer
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This is not about free software and it's not a piece of news. Yet I decided to post it because it's a good yet short read and made me happy. And when we free software geeks are consulted, we need to be smart about it.
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If Linux was the most used system in the world…
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This is a fictional story about a GNU/Linux user who doesn't know anything about Windows and tries to install that.
It's funy, but... so true, so true!
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France, Netherlands seek to halt Internet censorship
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"We must support cyber-dissidents in the same way that we supported political dissidents," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told a meeting in Paris attended by some 20 countries including the United States and Japan.
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Sydney Meetup July 2010
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"Announcing the July meetup for Sydney aka rorosyd. Tuesday July 13, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010..."
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Mini GNU Hackers Meeting at RMLL 2010, Bordeaux, 6-11 July.
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"The 11th Libre Software Meeting (aka. RMLL) began this Tuesday, July 6th, in Bordeaux, France. A small group of GNU hackers will be present and a GNU developers room will be available for discussions and lightning talks..."
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VIM: Faster navigation in a file
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Sometimes even the simplest of tasks like navigating through a single file can be optimized. Vim offers several methods of navigation within a file, which can adapt to the contents of the file and how it is organized. Some of these methods are obvious, while others are more complex.
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MIT's free classes now run on free software
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"...MIT OpenCourseWare ( http://ocw.mit.edu/ ) is a web-based publication of virtually all course content from the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT).
Read more »[FSF] Free Software Supporter -- Issue 27, June 2010
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Free Software Foundation Announcements and Information: keep up to date with the latest developments in the Free Software community with the Free Software Supporter.
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