"My name is Shane Coughlan and and I work for Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), a non-profit, non-governmental organisation with offices in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Sweden. You may remember me from my last FSFE update on this blog on the Freedom Task Force, which is the FSFE's legal training project which I coordinate.
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Updates from the Free Software Foundation Europe
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Why I love Debian
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Ubuntu and Linux Mint are great for new users, but I'm not a new user. I'm not trying to be snobby, and I don't think I'm better than anyone else; I just have different needs than most people. I don't want polish. I want to see and work with the guts of my operating system, because I like to be in total control of my computing experience.
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Avoiding Ruinous Compromises: RMS
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“Twenty-five years ago on September 27, 1983, I announced a plan to create a completely free operating system called GNU — for ‘GNU is not Unix’. As part of the 25th anniversary of the GNU system, I have written this article on how our community can avoid ruinous compromises. In addition to avoiding such compromises"
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FSFE Fellowship interview with Sean Daly
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Sean Daly's been all around Brussels, Luxembourg, Geneva, and Barcelona getting scoops and recording events about anti-trust, OOXML, and GPLv3. It's quite a niche for a volunteer in the free software movement, so our first FSFE Fellowship interview, we ask him why and how he got into this.
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On-line applications "just work"; why worry about the freedom of the licence?
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An increasing number of computer users are turning to online applications instead of ones on their desktop, With the emergence of online applications that have no desktop equivalent, and mobile devices that are browsers in your pocket, things are looking up. But what about free software?
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Gentoo 2008.1 canceled
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"In future releases, Gentoo will focus on a more back-to-basics approach that will give you up-to-date install media on a regular basis and make much better use of our human resources. We're looking into automated weekly builds of the minimal CDs and stage tarballs as well as maybe an annual LiveCD release. We will keep you updated as we decide on the details of this new approach..."
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Freedom Socks - Episode 8 - Socks Without DRM
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So, we’re back after our little break, with better sound quality. We sink our teeth right into the latest and greatest news, including the amazing news from SGI. Then, we send a shipment of hate to the evil DRM fiends at Spore, review TuxGuitar and cleverly discuss the links between Science and free software. Finally, we wrap up the show with some listener feedback.
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Ogg on the Rise
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"The recent launch of Stephen Fry's film in celebration of GNU's 25th anniversary has been a success on a number of levels — including for PlayOgg.org , the campaign for free audio and video formats. Worldwide, people have reached out to thank us and offer their support, including dozens of volunteers who have translated the film into over 24 languages.
Read more »Why is it important to go the ‘free’ way?
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Mr. Aravind explains: “Software like art is another mode of creativity.” In art, for instance, improvements made on existing works results in better and finer art, he argues. Why should it not be the same with software? he asks.
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Ten easy ways to attract women to your free software project
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The gender inequality among developers and supporters of free software is stunning. Less than 2% of us are women, according to studies conducted for the European Commission. Why?
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Techies press for digital freedom struggle
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"CHENNAI: Techies advocating free software on Sunday issued a rallying call to expand the “digital freedom struggle” as they celebrated the anniversary of the GNU/Linux project launched in 1984.
Read more »The Bizarre Cathedral - 23
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For those addicted to the Bizarre Cathedral -read on
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Just switched to the Paludis package manager
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I just converted from Portage to Paludis about 30 minutes ago on my Gentoo system. Paludis is an alternative package manager for the very buggy Portage maintained by Gentoo. This new package manager is supposed to make it easier to add new packages.
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Linux Foundation opening doors to individual participation
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The nonprofit Linux Foundation (LF), which coordinates an assortment of Linux-oriented standardization efforts and employs key developers such as Linux creator Linus Torvalds, has added to its Web site a gateway toward individual -- as opposed to corporate -- membership.
Read more »SGI relicenses OpenGL: "A huge gift to the free software community"
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After nine months, an open secret can finally be acknowledged: The OpenGL code that is responsible for 3-D acceleration on GNU/Linux, which was released by SGI in 1999, has been running on licenses that were accepted by neither the Free Software Foundation (FSF) nor the Open Source Initiative.
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