Hi, my name is Marek, I study informatics (I’ve just ended my second year), I’m GNU Volunteer Webmaster and this summer I was an intern at FSF working on GNU MyServer. You can be curious why I’m not listed here along other interns - being first FSF intern I was accepted before FSF’s new internship program was started and I’m not part of it.
Read more »The first time I’ve ever been disappointed by Slackware
I guess I probably shouldn’t be too surprised, because I knew that Pat Volkerding has been working with my least favorite desktop environment and it’s been in /current for a while now. But I guess a part of me still was holding out a childish hope that Slackware 13.0 release would be KDE 3.5.10.
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Free Culture Forum: Organization and Action - Barcelona, 29th October - 1st November 2009
"Across the planet, people are recognizing the need for an international space to build and coordinate a global framework and common agenda for issues surrounding free culture and access to knowledge.
Read more »Is the Linux Desktop Too Much Like Windows, Mac OS X?
A complaint you hear quite often is that the Linux desktop environments, which mostly refers to KDE and GNOME, are trying too hard to be like Windows and Mac OS X.
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DebConf9 in Cáceres, Spain: Time of changes
«...Every year several hundreds of Debian contributors from around the world get together at DebConf in a different city to share a week (or more!) of work, friendship and fun...»
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Software Freedom Day 2009
"Please join the Free Software Foundation as part of an international day celebrating software freedom. We'll be one of the many groups around the world hosting an event that day (see http://softwarefreedomday.org). Keep an eye on the wiki page below for more information including a schedule of activities! ..."
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Who Benefits from the CPAN?
If you talk to Jarkko about the CPAN, he'll likely tell you that it's primarily a distribution service. It's a series of regularly updated mirrors containing some metadata and an archive of redistributable code. Many proposals for enhancements and replacements and reinventions in other languages have come and gone. Most of them have tried to add complexity to this simple base.
Read more »FSF launches Windows 7 anti-upgrade letter campaign
The Free Software Foundation is mobilizing against Windows 7 with a campaign to dissuade IT decision makers from installing the operating system. The group's sent letters to 499 of the top Fortune 500 organizations, warning that a move to Windows 7 will increase their dependence on Microsoft and encouraging the use of GNU/Linux on PCs instead. The missing letter recipient was Microsoft.
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Negative campaign, positive campaign: Windows 7 Sins vs get GNU/Linux
[Windows7Sins] has received too a lot of negative criticism, thought, centered in an idea somewhat similar to the one I exposed in the beginning: “We must center on the good things free software can offer, instead of the enemy’s bad points”.
Read more »Stallman Takes His Free-Software Crusade to Argentina
"Two whirlwinds blew into Buenos Aires this week: the hundreds of Wikipedia supporters, editors and administrators here for their annual Wikimania conference, and the free-software activist Richard Stallman, who was in town as part of his never-ending tour of the globe to promote his cause..."
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Windows 7 Sins Letter Donation
"We've mailed a letter to 499 of the Fortune 500 companies (we didn't think Microsoft would listen), but that's just the start..."
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SELF News August 2009
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1. End of the EC funded period - Wouter Tebbens (FKI)
2. News from the development team - Nagarjuna G. (HBCSE)
3. UOC to use SELF at their new Master Programme on Free Software...
4. FKI and UOC setting up the Free Technology Academy - David Jacovkis (UOC)
5. Vía Libre collaborates in the organisation of Wikimania 2009
6. Join SELF!
Gnutiken - International GNU Cooperative Sweden
Since I ended my internship with the FSFE in May, my main priority has been the establishing of a Free Software cooperative in Göteborg. The result is about to unfold itself, and it’s name is Gnutiken, or “the Gnutique” if you want to be English about it.
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Coverity To Participate in Free and Open Source Learning Centre (FOSSLC) Debate
Coverity Open Source Strategist David Maxwell Joins Open Source Licensing Debate with Eclipse Foundation and Alfresco
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An Open Letter to Michael Dell: Why I have no choice but return my Ubuntu Inspiron Mini 10
Dear Michael,
I have been a fan of yours for many years - since I was a kid in fact!... I watched you embrace GNU/Linux; I remember thinking: I wonder if people realise what this will actually mean. I am sure he does. So, here I am: I bought an Inspiron Mini 10. I have no choice but return it. And now I can't stop wondering: how could Michael Dell get it just so wrong?
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