"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, October 1, 2009 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it will begin rewarding those who find and report any nonfree components in free software operating system distributions with public recognition and “GNU Bucks.” The FSF maintains a list of guidelines covering what it means to be a free distribution, and endorses distributions th
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Mono and Moblin as the Microsoft-approved “Open Source Solution”
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Is "Open Source" simply where Free software meets Microsoft's software patents and other "compromises"? In some cases, it sure seems like a terminological fit
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"Ask your candidates" / Now I ask you
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Because of the German federal elections in 2009, FSFE called on all German Free Software supporters to ask the parties’ candidates about their positions on Free Software and Open Standards. FSFE set up a page about the German Bundestagswahl to help asking questions, and to collecting answers.
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Without Free Software, Open Source Would Lose its Meaning
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I'm a big fan of Matt Asay's writings about free software even though I have been rather dreading the appearance of one that I knew, one day, he would write...because it would be wrong. And now he has written it, with the self-explanatory headline: “Free software is dead. Long live open source.”
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“Open Source is Dead. Long Live Free Software”
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Response to the usual anti-Richard Stallman crowd and their latest incitement against Free software (and to a lesser degree Ubuntu)
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25 years of GNU - support software freedom!
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"Dear Free Software Supporter, Tomorrow we mark the end of our year-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of the GNU Project---a celebration that we kicked off in September 2008 with a wonderful video from author and comedian Stephen Fry..."
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FOSS compliance engineering in the embedded industry
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LWN has just published an article that examines the field of compliance engineering. It explores the tools and skills required to undertake due diligence activities related to licensing and binary code in the embedded industry. It is based on the GPL Compliance Engineering Guide, which in turn is based on the experience of engineers contributing to the gpl-violations.org project.
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Microsoft Abuse with Software Patents Carries on
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The latest analyses and moves from Microsoft, which increasingly relies on software patents in its eternal battle against Free software
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FSFE to EC: Don’t waste an opportunity with a hasty deal
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High Noon in Brussels: At the end of her term, competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes is wrapping up two open cases against Microsoft. The company offered to settle in July 2009. FSFE is concerned that a quick settlement could deprive Europeans of competition and innovation in a software market based on open standards, in particular where Free Software is concerned.
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FSCONS 2009 - 13-15 November 2009, Burgårdens Conference Center, Göteborg, Sweden
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"Join us at the third annual FSCONS, a meeting place for social change, focused on the future of free software and free society. Open discussion and brainstorming are two of the primary factors that pave the way for change.
Read more »Active development on Linux-libre
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Active development on Linux-libre, a fork of the Linux kernel which removes non-free software components
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KDE's Google Summer of Code 2009 Report: Huge Success
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Google Summer of Code has again been a huge success for KDE this year. 37 out of 38 projects were finished successfully. Much of the work done during these projects is already merged into trunk and will be available for the users with the KDE 4.4 release in January 2010. Each student quickly presents his work done during the summer holidays.
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Is free software major league or minor?
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Is free software really capable of serving end users or not? This issue has political consequences, which is part of what makes it important: either free software is "minor league" or it's "major league". Which we believe has a big impact on what our expectations can be and what our political and ethical stance towards proprietary and free software should be.
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Richard Stallman is not the bad guy
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It appears to be open season for launching attacks on the head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallman, the man who is in large measure responsible for the status that free and open source software enjoys today.
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Nordic Free Software Award 2009
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"For one more month (until October 25) you can nominate a person, a project or an organisation for the Nordic Free Software Award..."
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