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* Why free software and Apple's iPhone don't mix
* Play Ogg!
* Pizza Party for friends of the FSF in San Francisco
* Portland associate membership meeting recap
* Give Apple the iPhone Challenge
* Help defeat Microsoft's OOXML format!
* Atheros releases free software wireless driver
* Yahoo Music -- the bad dream of DRM continues
* GNU spotlight with Karl Berry
[FSF] Free Software Supporter Issue 6 - August 2008
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RMS Visit to NZ
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"Richard Stallman will be visiting NZ between August 6th and 21st in 2008 to help promote the use, dissemination and ideals of Free Software. This page is intended to keep track of where he is and what's planned..."
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FSF demonstrates iPhone's incompatibility with free software and GPLv3
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, July 31, 2008 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published a statement exposing Apple's hostile position towards free software on its iPhone mobile computing platform..."
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Theora Video Backend for Firefox Landed
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"It was announced at the Firefox Plus summit today that Firefox will include native Theora and Vorbis support for the HTML 5 media elements. So and will support those codecs built into Firefox itself..."
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Ex-inmates apply open source to rehabilitation
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Ric Moore and Dennis Gaddy met in prison, and started to discuss how Open Source software and methods could help other inmates to avoid further mistakes and get better chance to start over after their term. In this interview, Ric explains how they are doing it through the NuOAR program and why
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 15
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Digital Freedom in Education & Youth - North West :: First Meeting
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Digital Freedom in Education & Youth - North West (DFEY-NW), the North West of England's first group focusing on young people and issues of freedom in the digital world is looking forward to it's first meeting EVER in August.
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More evidence of Microsoft "tying up" the Asus EeePC
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The EeePC started as a niche product aimed at children. It was a huge hit, which surprised everybody - even Asus. Microsoft noticed it, and started putting pressure on Asus. While reading around, I came across this interview with Benson Lin, which proces once more that Microsoft is tying up Asus and effectively killing the GNU/Linux version of the EeePC.
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Linus Torvalds on Linux Distributions
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10 days ago Linux creator Linus Torvalds gave an interview in which he talked about what he likes and doesn't like in a Linux distribution
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Atheros releases free software wireless driver; no binary blobs
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"Atheros Communications has announced the release of free software wireless drivers for ath9k. The ath9k driver requires no proprietary binary blobs and works on several chipsets and over a dozen wireless devices..."
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KDE 4.1 to officially support Malayalam
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Interesting and inspiring story about how a localization community achieved official support in KDE 4.1 release by collaborative work with in a week time.
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Release: Call for participation in the international action day “Freedom not Fear”.
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"...A broad movement of campaigners and organizations is calling on everybody to join action against excessive surveillance by governments and businesses. On 11 October 2008, concerned people in many countries will take to the streets, the motto being 'Freedom not fear 2008'. Peaceful and creative action, from protest marches to parties, will take place in many capital cities..."
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RepRap: self replicating machines
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"... Following the principles of the Free Software Movement we are distributing the RepRap machine [...] to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have a RepRap machine, you can make another and give it to a friend... " -- via http://www.schrankmonster.de/PermaLink,guid,acde8f0f-78ff-4308-8da5-cbfd...
* RepRap Project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepRap
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The original GNU proposal post.
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"... a Lisp-based window system through which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen. Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages [...] Who Am I? I am Richard Stallman, inventor of the original much-imitated EMACS editor, now at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT..."
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated and support for newer hardware added
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"The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch). In addition to correcting several security problems and a few serious defects in the stable release, for the first time in Debian's history an update for a stable distrubtion also adds support for newer hardware by giving users the option to install newer drivers..."
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