"San Francisco - Hours before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to take action against Comcast for violating the FCC's net neutrality principles, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is releasing "Switzerland," a software tool for customers to test the integrity of their Internet communications..." -- (Switzerland is free software licensed under the GPL)
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EFF Releases "Switzerland" ISP Testing Tool
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GnuCash 2.2.6 released
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"The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.6 aka 'Stay@Home v3', the sixth bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software..."
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Blackring: Lisp
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"I think I may have fallen in love. It's obvious from my work with Carrot that I bought into the Lispish way of doing things long ago, but the decision to write Blackring using it has... well [...] This is what I've been doing for most of the past 24 hours, and I've found some amazing things..."
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Free Culture Gaming - 1st game night Saturday 8pm EDT
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"Some folks from Free Culture at Virginia Tech came up with and, more impressively, actually started a Free Culture Gaming club! Every week Free Culture Gaming will get together to play free games online with other free culture aficionados. All of the games we play will be 100% free software and free content, as per our standards..." --
* Free Culture at Virginia Tech: http://vt.freeculture.org/
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[FSF] Free Software Supporter Issue 6 - August 2008
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– ## In this issue
* Why free software and Apple's iPhone don't mix
* Play Ogg!
* Pizza Party for friends of the FSF in San Francisco
* Portland associate membership meeting recap
* Give Apple the iPhone Challenge
* Help defeat Microsoft's OOXML format!
* Atheros releases free software wireless driver
* Yahoo Music -- the bad dream of DRM continues
* GNU spotlight with Karl Berry
RMS Visit to NZ
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"Richard Stallman will be visiting NZ between August 6th and 21st in 2008 to help promote the use, dissemination and ideals of Free Software. This page is intended to keep track of where he is and what's planned..."
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FSF demonstrates iPhone's incompatibility with free software and GPLv3
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, July 31, 2008 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published a statement exposing Apple's hostile position towards free software on its iPhone mobile computing platform..."
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Theora Video Backend for Firefox Landed
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"It was announced at the Firefox Plus summit today that Firefox will include native Theora and Vorbis support for the HTML 5 media elements. So and will support those codecs built into Firefox itself..."
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Ex-inmates apply open source to rehabilitation
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Ric Moore and Dennis Gaddy met in prison, and started to discuss how Open Source software and methods could help other inmates to avoid further mistakes and get better chance to start over after their term. In this interview, Ric explains how they are doing it through the NuOAR program and why
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Digital Freedom in Education & Youth - North West :: First Meeting
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Digital Freedom in Education & Youth - North West (DFEY-NW), the North West of England's first group focusing on young people and issues of freedom in the digital world is looking forward to it's first meeting EVER in August.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 15
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Linus Torvalds on Linux Distributions
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10 days ago Linux creator Linus Torvalds gave an interview in which he talked about what he likes and doesn't like in a Linux distribution
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More evidence of Microsoft "tying up" the Asus EeePC
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The EeePC started as a niche product aimed at children. It was a huge hit, which surprised everybody - even Asus. Microsoft noticed it, and started putting pressure on Asus. While reading around, I came across this interview with Benson Lin, which proces once more that Microsoft is tying up Asus and effectively killing the GNU/Linux version of the EeePC.
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Atheros releases free software wireless driver; no binary blobs
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"Atheros Communications has announced the release of free software wireless drivers for ath9k. The ath9k driver requires no proprietary binary blobs and works on several chipsets and over a dozen wireless devices..."
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KDE 4.1 to officially support Malayalam
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Interesting and inspiring story about how a localization community achieved official support in KDE 4.1 release by collaborative work with in a week time.
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