One day Multimedia workshop at Sarai, CSDS New Delhi. The event is organised by G.I.S.S. project , ILUG-D, Freed.in and Sarai,CSDS on 11 Oct 2008
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Stallman, a man the Free Software movement needs
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Last week Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software movement caused some head scratching when he made some remarks about cloud computing and web applications calling them stupid.
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Stallman vs. Clouds
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I respect Richard Stallman for the same reason I respect gravity. The man is a force of nature. He is like the iron core of the Earth: fixed, central, essential.
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The Youngest "Learning GNU Emacs" Fan
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"My 11 month-old niece Guna takes liking to my Learning GNU Emacs book..."
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Free Culture Conference 2008
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"...We’re holding a conference for, and about, free culture, technology, copyright, remixing, and free software..." --
* Students for Free Culture Conference in Berkeley
* Going to Free Culture Conference 2008!
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SERPRO chooses Debian GNU/Linux
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Brazilian state IT company SERPRO (US$ 1 billion annual revenue) has selected Debian GNU/Linux as their preferred distribution for its thousands of GNU/Linux development and production servers. The announcement occurred during Debian Day in Porto Alegre.
Read more »Days at Sun Draw to a Close for MySQL's Axmark
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Yesterday Computerworld reported that MySQL cofounder and lead engineer David Axmark has resigned from Sun Microsystems. Axmark indicated that he felt he would be "better off in smaller organizations" and working with MySQL and Sun on a "less formal basis."
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Psychosynth is now a GNU package!
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"The Psychosynth project aims to create an interactive modular soft-synth inspired by the ideas of the Reactable. We will try to provide a clean object oriented API to allow the creation of new innovative interfaces for the synthetizer and a 3D simulator of a Reactable-alike device with support for collaborative music creation over the internet.
Read more »FSFE for Freedom Not Fear
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The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) supports Free Software so that every citizen can play an independent, active and responsible part in our information society. However, censorship of content, violations of the principle of 'Net Neutrality' and increasing online surveillance do not fit with these goals.
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Emacs World Domination for the Wrong Reasons
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RMS: « ...I am sure it IS effective for convincing people to use [Emacs] when that is more convenient. I want to convince people to insist on freedom even when it is inconvenient..." »
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Freeing your phone with the FIC Neo FreeRunner
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The temptation to compare the FreeRunner and the Apple iPhone can be overwhelming. They both run a Unix-like operating system; they both have GPS, wi-fi, and accelerometers; they are both cell phones.
In spite of their similarities, their differences are even more striking.
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How often do we need GNU/Linux releases?
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Of what use is an operating system if all it does is to make you look forward to the next release - simply because umpteen bugs have been introduced by all the new features in the current version?
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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase Winners Announced!
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"I am absolutely tickled pink to announce the winners of the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase! ..."
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Dell Quietly Releases Another Ubuntu Machine in the UK
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After the original releases of three Ubuntu machines last year, Dell has quietly been adding to its repository of Linux-powered machines. The newest is a UK-based Inspiron Mini 9, reported by TheRegister.
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Richard Stallman: The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
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"Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms."
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