Jono Bacon: Many moons ago, when computers were made out of oak and beige slacks, I recorded a heavy metal version of the Free Software Song that Richard Stallman cobbled together. When I recorded this song I didnt really have the right equipment to record a song, and consequently it sounded a bit rubbish. […]

"Amahi" is open-source home server software which can turn an old PC into a streaming media center, making your photos, videos and files available to other computers and applications in your house. Apple has told them off, issuing a cease and desist letter over their use of the term ‘App Store’ on their website.

William Theaker recently started working at the FSF as this summer's licensing intern. In this post, he writes about what brought him to free software, and the goals for his internship.

"Dangerous Prototypes is a two-year old organization with the stated mission of producing "one new open source project every month."[...]All are being sold by another interesting company, Seeed Studio."

These days there is a phrenitis on the web about a new social network called Google+. Some months ago I proudly debarked from the Google ship, stop using Google Docs, Calendar, Picasa, Blogger, Reader and Youtube. I continue to use Gmail, Google Translate and seeing Youtube videos without subscription.

You may remember that back in March at the LibrePlanet 2011 conference, we presented the 2010 Award for Projects of Social Benefit to the Tor Project -- by using free software, Tor has enabled roughly 36 million people around the world to experience freedom of access and expression on the Internet while keeping them in control of their privacy and anonymity.

Sourcefabric took the occasion of their first ever Central American conference on July 15th 2011 to launch a new global theme contest. Designers worldwide are invited to submit themes for Newscoop, the open source CMS for news organisations. The contest is free to enter at contest.sourcefabric.org, where designers can download a sample theme and view the competition's guidelines.

In arresting, trying, and sentencing Hoang, the Vietnamese government has criminalized free expression as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and guaranteed by articles 35, 50, 53 and 69 of the Vietnamese Constitution.