At LinuxTag 2010, the KDE community announced the "Join the Game" campaign to support KDE e.V.'s Supporting Membership Program. The first new member was Georg Greve, founder of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). We caught up with him for a 'short' interview that turned into a two hour conversation about life, the universe and everything. The pertinent bits are excerpted below.
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Who gives a fsck about a license?
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I have no idea why anyone would want to do a File System ChecK on a license but I have seen fsck used in this manner so I do too Seriously though, how many people really care about the license they are using?
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Who Should - or Shouldn't - Use Linux?
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Is there a type of person who absolutely should be using Linux? Would that include only developers, programmers and admins, or does it encompass anyone whose needs would mostly be met with FOSS? On the flip side, is there a category of person that should probably keep as far away from Linux as humanly possible?
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The Charge for Freedom
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When we think of open source we normally think of software. We (freetards, freediots, open source fanboys) have often been described as a type of new hippie movement. In some ways this may be true. We favor open collaboration instead of top-down empiricism. This is somewhat liberal in nature.
Read more »July 2010 Issue of The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine
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The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the July 2010 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. In the July 2010 issue: Xfce 4.6.2: Xfce Settings Manager, Part 2, KDE 4: Reclaim Your Background - The Widget Dashboard, and Alternate OS: Haiku, Part 1.
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Support GNOME by Shopping at Amazon.com
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The GNOME foundation provide Amazon referral links for your browser. That is, every time you search for a product using the referral link and end up buying something GNOME get a paid a referral fee based on the amount you spend. The best bit is that it costs you absolutely nothing extra but helps keep GNOME in servers, ballpoint pens and developers.
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Open source helps those who…get a little help from their friends
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Whereas most developers have familiarity with open source, fewer of their managers and even fewer senior execs have much experience with it, especially when it comes to corporate policy or governance. Thus, it's good news that there are organizations and resources that can help companies get their collective heads around the issues and best practices for managing them.
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Handbook for practicing The Open Source Way
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Imagine you are there on the day of Open Your World forum and listening to all the talks that day, seven hours so far with a few fifteen minute breaks. You are learning, things are clearer, but all the ways of applying the open source way outside of software may have you feeling a bit lost.
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openSUSE 11.3 is here!
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The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. openSUSE 11.3 is packed with new features and updates including SpiderOak to sync your files across the Internet for free, Rosegarden for free editing of your audio files, improved indexing with Tracker, and updates to Mozilla Firefox,
and Thunderbird.
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Australian Linux conference seeks papers
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Linux.conf.au announced a Call for Papers for its 12th annual open source Linux conference for developers, to be held in Brisbane, Australia, on Jan 24-29-2011.
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FSFE welcomes new "Software Interactions" document
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FSFE is proud to welcome the release of a new educational document on Free Software licensing. Developed by delegates of the European Legal Network, the document helps software developers and lawyers by making it easier to decide under which licenses they can distribute their work.
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GNU GPLv3 added to the FOSS-license exceptions of libmysql
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I have a few hats on in the greater FS community which puts me a position where many folks approach me with their licensing issues. One of those hats is the PR representative of the Open Source Experts Group of the Austrian chamber of commerce.
Read more »Organic Linux at the Farmers Market
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Among the strawberries, nectarines, kettle corn and other fresh fruits and vegetables — and since when is kettle corn NOT a fresh vegetable? — the Felton Linux Users Group has set up a table offering Organic Software each Tuesday afternoon at the Felton Farmers Market; Linux, GNU/Linux and other Free/Open Source Software programs.
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Position: Community and outreach manager
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EFA is looking for a talented and enthusiastic person to help manage our outreach for various campaigns, including the one against mandatory internet filtering, through the election period and beyond.
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"The URL is (NOT) being submitted right now"
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I feel that not enough serious consideration is being given to the problem concerning;
"This URL is being submitted right now"
It is still continuing to occur, despite evidence that the URL is not being posted.
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