"...When the heart is torn from the flax bush,
where will the bell bird sing?
You ask me, what is the most important thing on earth?
My reply is it is people, it is people, it is people ..."
The free software movement: He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
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The Situation Now (2019)
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Sam opened his eyes to the sun shining in his window, birds chirping outside, and the smell of a fresh summer breeze. It was a glorious day, perfect for the launch of the campaign. Sam got himself ready, grabbed a bite to eat, and jumped on the bus on his way to his job at the Proprietary Software Foundation.
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Microsoft Wins Free Software-Hostile Deal in Europe, Its Front Group ACT Pleased
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By pushing law-enforcing action to the end of term, Microsoft has successfully bamboozled the Commission
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The UTUTO XS Lemote project begins!
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"This is a quick translation I made of the article that appeared in Ututo’s site: http://www.ututo.org/web/modules/news/news.php?ID_news=368 ..."
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Dragora GNU/Linux 1.1
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"...Dragora GNU/Linux is the creation of a huge effort to carry the maximum of the wishes and what you deserve: complete freedom. Dragora GNU/Linux version 1.1 is the evolution of its previous version 1.0; many things have changed, the intention of his progress was always for the better..."
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OpenArena from Libregamewiki, the Free Gaming Encyclopedia
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OpenArena is a FPS game intended to be a free replacement for the proprietary Quake III Arena. Both the media and the game are licensed under the GPLv2.[1][2] The latest version of the game is version 0.8.1 released on October 31th, 2008.[3] The OpenArena project was established on August 19, 2005, the day after the id Tech 3 GPL source code release.
Read more »Where to find the various Kongoni source code
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"Kongoni provides the source code for all software we distribute as well as the code for all changes made in accordance with the GPL and the spirit of free software..." — see also: GNU Bucks —
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Microsoft Windows Zombies Take Down Free Software Services Hosted on Amazon
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Bitbucket goes offline due to a distributed denial of service attack (botnets)
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Microsoft antitrust case: FSFE offers analysis to European Commission
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The Free Software Foundation Europe has analysed the most important elements that a settlement should contain to allow real competition in the European software market. It has summarised those key points in a letter sent to Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes.
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Richard Stallman on Radio New Zealand
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"Did you know that Richard Stallman was interviewed by Kim Hill on Saturday? I missed it but ended up listening to the podcast yesterday.
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Lest CodePlex perplex - by Richard M. Stallman
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"...The first thing we see is that the organization ducks the issue of users' freedom; it uses the term "open source" and does not speak of "free software". These two terms stand for different philosophies which are based on different values: free software's values are freedom and social solidarity, whereas open source cites only practical convenience values such as powerful, reliable software..."
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The Free (Bebas) Software Movement
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"Jakarta, Indonesia [...] Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement (gerakan perangkat lunak bebas) and leader of development of the GNU operating system (with which the kernel Linux is typically used) will give a speech to explain the ethical and political ideas of free software, which differ from the ideas of open source, and explain how GNU was developed to realize these ethical g
Read more »Chinese IT shops love the free-ness of open source
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If everything is free in the Land with No IP - not TCP/IP, but rather intellectual property - then it stands to reason that IT managers and programmers in China would love open source software.
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Trisquel on Sugar
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"...The project was presented during the Software Freedom Day 09 event organized by the Free Software Foundation. Briefly introduced by Walter Bender, founder of SugarLabs, our Sugar+Trisquel solution provides a way to run this excelent educational software in a fully free system. Trisquel 3.0 was also featured in the FSF event, running on the computers available for the public on site..."
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Copyright Protection in the Digital Age - Library of Alexandria, Egypt
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"The Library of Alexandria, Egypt, is holding a three-day workshop to introduce judges, lawyers, and researchers from Egypt and the Arab world to new tools for the dissemination of knowledge.
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