Richard M. Stallman recently gave a talk entitled Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club. The talk looks at the origin of copyright, and how it has evolved over time from something that originally served the benefit of the people to a tool used against them...
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Stallman's dream and GPLv3
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"...The thing to realize about the GPL using and creating Free Software community, is that the word "community" is the most important part. It's like a club, where membership only depends on you accepting the spirit of the license used by all the members, the GPL. Note that I say the spirit, and not just the letter of the license..."
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Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
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Microsoft will lose market share to open-source desktops, a Dell strategist says at LinuxWorld.
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Apple Support for Open Document Format - Petition
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"We appeal that you release an update to the latest version of iWork suite to support ISO 26300."
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Time for a Free Software Business Initiative
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It is not enough to have Richard Stallman travel around the world endlessly giving standard Free Software speeches among other things repeating how Open Source is not the same thing as Free Software and how the operating system widely known as "Linux" is actually "GNU/Linux" (because GNU project in fact started that OS).
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Q&A: Torvalds on Linux, Microsoft, software's future
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Linus Torvalds was only 22 when he decided in 1991 to share with friends and colleagues the code of Linux, the new OS he had created.
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Q&A: Jonathan Schwartz on Sun's open-source business strategy
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Jonathan Schwartz is a man on a mission. While at Linuxworld today, I took an hour to visit with Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems.
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For GNU/Linux Matters Freedom is Key
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Blue GNU interviewed Gustavo Narea and Olivier Cleynen of GNU/Linux Matters, the organization behind GetGNU/Linux.org.
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Linux seen vying with Windows for platform dominance
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"Linux Foundation director sees Linux entering second stage of growth and a computing world dominated by two platforms."
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Linux Foundation calls for 'respect for Microsoft'
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Linux needs to recognise Microsoft's leadership in some areas to better itself, Jim Zemlin, executive director for the Linux Foundation told delegates at the Linuxworld tradeshow in San Fransisco.
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Torvalds, Red Hat are no shows at Linuxworld
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The two biggest names in the Linux industry – Linus Torvalds and Red Hat – skipped out on LinuxWorld again.
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Novell CEO: We Need To Standardize Linux
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According to Novell President and CEO Ron Hovsepian, there needs to be more application availability on Linux in order to accelerate Linux adoption.
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Ubuntu - the fridge
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Conceived at UbuntuDownUnder, The Fridge is an information hub for the Ubuntu community, bringing together news, grassroots marketing, advocacy, team collaboration, and great original content.
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Google moves the numbers, press panics
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Supposedly the big news coming out of LinuxWorld today is that Microsoft’s IIS server is “catching up” to Apache.
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I'm excited about the future of gnome
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bout half a year ago i was looking around me and seeing stagnation in the gnome community. i was concerned that gnome had lost its momentum and that we were just making boring incremental releases that added very little new functionality. i think i was very wrong. i’d like to take this time to list some things that are happening right now in the gnome community that have me very excited.
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