Rarely does one find the proprietor of a company that is closely connected to any kind of software getting on mailing lists to try to correct public perceptions of his product. In that respect, Mark Shuttleworth stands apart from all his peers.
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[Updated] Guidelines for Free System Distributions on gnu.org
"Yavor informed me, that the GNU website has a new article. So read the Guidelines for Free System Distributions and afterwards you can comment FSFE's public discussion lists."
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[FSF] Free Software Supporter, June 2008
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## In this issue
* New FSF store
* Farewell Justin, Hello Danny
* DRM elimination crew at the Apple Store launch
* Savannah adds Subversion, Mercurial
* Freedom and privacy in the cloud: a call for action
* Boycott Windows Media Center!
* GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry
* Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF speeches
* Take Action with the FSF
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New FSDaily feature: community blogs!
If you are registered member of FSDaily and are logged in, you will see a new option next to "My account"... that's right - you now have your very own FSDaily blog account. If you have something free software related to tell the community go ahead and post it.
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New FSDaily feature: community blogs!
If you are registered member of FSDaily and are logged in, you will see a new option next to "My account"... that's right - you now have your very own FSDaily blog account. If you have something free software related to tell the community go ahead and post it.
Here's what we hope to see:
- dave's blog
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Boycott "Boycott Novell"
The site claims to be "Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications".
The keyword is "Reality". Unfortunately, there is not a lot of reality or even any facts behind Boycott Novell's articles, which seem to come several times daily. Let me explain:
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Welcome to the Hacker Space Festival (16-22 June 2008, Paris)
"...The goal of the Hacker Space Festival is to bring together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and Europe (and from beyond, if they can attend) to share and show what's going on..." -- via http://artlibre.org/archives/news/315
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The future is bright for Linux filesystems
In a recent article, Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future?, Henry Newman expands on what he feels are shortcomings in current GNU/Linux filesystems. Specifically, he believes current Linux filesystem technology cannot meet the demands that massive implementations of 100TB or larger require.
Read more »Let's stop playing the numbers game: free software has changed the game.
Tony Mobily’s recent FSM post A future without Microsoft and the resulting comments have caused me to consider the way we use numbers to argue for free software in the marketplace. I’m not convinced that it’s the best strategy because those waters are particularly muddy when it comes to comparing free and proprietary software.
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Battling for time? Then don't Battle for Wesnoth!
I wanted to try some different game than the FPS where you go and chomp, shoot or saw the baddies, terrorists or aliens. While these games are fun and great for getting rid of the stress of dealing with "ID ten T" or "PEBKAC" errors all day. To satisfy this need for fantasy, control and strategy while still killing things I started browsing through the games section of the Debian repository.
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Boycott Novell: Defenders of Freedom, or Offenders of Freedom?
Ladies and gentlemen, sit down. You have all been taken advantage of in the worst manipulative mental carnival imagineable.
FUD. We all know the term. Wikipedia states it as: "Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) is a tactic of rhetoric used in sales, marketing, public relations, and illiberal democracies.
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Boy Scouts of America look to open-source community for help
Scouts honor — the 98-year-old Boy Scouts of America (BSA) organization is adopting open-source software as a path to building better software to support the almost 3 million scouts and 1.1 million adults who make up the group.
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Stallman comments on the Oyster
After our coverage of London's Oyster card, which uses Linux for its online payment system, we had a response from Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation.
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GNewSense, the Present and the Future
"You would think that a GNU/Linux distribution dedicated to shipping only free software would be uncontroversial. After all, isn't free software what GNU/Linux is all about? Yet, when the latest version of GNewSense was announced recently, Slashdot readers were divided in their reactions..."
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KDE 4 Progress: New plasmoids, Akonadi, KRunner and more
A review of some features of the upcoming KDE 4.1, featuring Panel configuration, Gwenview, Marble, folder views and even Akonadi.
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