Congratulations to NPR Wbur for supporting Ogg :) -- via http://www.fsf.org/news/wbur-streams-ogg-vorbis

"...Dear Mr. La Camera and Dr. Brown, The WBUR group has become a leader in public broadcasting by producing award-winning radio programs, syndicating National Public Radio and other programming on FM and AM radio stations, and by broadcasting on the World Wide Web at wbur.org.

"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- May 14, 2008 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has marked a milestone in their PlayOgg.org campaign with the announcement that National Public Radio (NPR) news station WBUR Boston has begun worldwide webcasting in the free audio format Ogg Vorbis..."

MP3 is encumbered with patents which require listeners to buy licensed players or risk facing patent infringement lawsuits. Since WBUR is publicly funded, it seems silly for it to use resources to enrich a private enterprise. Listeners have already payed once to have the content made, so they shouldn't have to pay an extra MP3 tax.

"A short screencast demonstrating the use of Rinari (an Emacs minor-mode for rails development).

"The version Amaya 11.1 is now available.The main reason of that release is to fix buffer overflows that might be exploited by remote attackers ..." -- NB: Amaya is free software licensed under the

Thomas Lord: «...The more urgent issue concerns the emerging W3C-based world: what will GNU have to offer there?» --
Miles Bader: «Hopefully, an alternative...» --

## In this issue
* Free Software Supporter exclusive: WBUR is streaming Ogg Vorbis!
* DBD Action Alert - Libraries: Eliminate DRM!
* Get DeltaH, gNewSense 2.0
* Get your next machine with gNewSense
* Silicon Mechanics to ship servers with free BIOS preinstalled
* Can we rescue OLPC from Windows? by Richard M. Stallman
* End Software Patents: the Bilski hearing, heard.

"Gnu FreeFont is a free family of scalable outline fonts, suitable for general use on computers and for desktop publishing. It is Unicode-encoded for compatability with all modern operating systems..." -- via http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/ --