In this episode of Sean Rants, Sean talks about Free Software, GNU/HURD, and the possible future of Free technologies.
Read more »Sean Rants: The Importance of GNU/HURD (New Version)
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How to be a free software business trainer
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The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa and the Germany-based InWent project have launched a programme to develop trainers in East and Southern Africa capable of teaching others to build free software-based businesses.
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Call for Participation: Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit
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"The Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) is a meeting place for social change, focused on the future of free software and free society.
Read more »Darcs Joins Software Freedom Conservancy
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"Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy welcome the Darcs project as its newest member. Darcs joins 15 other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects..."
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The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits
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"In one of RIAA’s high profile cases the Free Software Foundation backed defendant Joel Tenenbaum, much to the dislike of the music industry lobby. John Sullivan, Operations Manager at the FSF explains in a guest post why they think these cases impact not just music, but also free software and its technology..."
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Remixtures: an introduction for English-speaking readers
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"...I started Remixtures in the beginning of October 2006, a few months after I finished my master’s thesis about online activism and the (re)appropriation of technology for social goals.
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Software patents are dangerous
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"After a quite interesting month, in which I attended two very interesting lectures (Carlos Guerreiro and Richard Stallman lectures) and a very good fortnight in London I wasn’t sure what to talk about in this post. However, I liked so much an example that Richard Stallman told us talking about software patents that I needed to say some words..."
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Momentum building around first Central American Free Software Gathering
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The first steps are being taken in Central America to network free software groups in the region and develop collaborative relationships with each other. The first Central America Free Software Gathering (ECSL) is being organized for sometime in June in Nicaragua. The goal of the event is to:
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Rackspace Hosts a GNU/Linux Legend
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"On April 20th, we hosted a very special guest from the Free Software Foundation and GNU/Linux software community. Our special guest was, none other than Richard Stallman, author of the GPL free software license and the bulk of the GNU+Linux operating system..."
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Gnu tools and Linux Kernel workshop- Day2
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"After a good start on Saturday, the second day of the session continued with the same momentum... We started off with the Free Software Philosophy by an inspiring FSMK volunteer....
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Free As In Kosova: GNU World Domination for the Wrong Reasons
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"...Kosovo institutions and especially the Ministry of Education must encourage Free Software in order to create the technical base that will attract global companies [...] Although copyright laws are not being enforced right now, this is likely to happen soon as Kosovo moves towards joining international trade organizations..."
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EPO and the Swiss Department of Justice Want to Make Some Free Software a Crime
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Criminalisation of Free(dom) software still on Europe's agenda due to patent law and cybercrime debate
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The Freedom Maintainers Rocking Ahead
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"...In his anniversary message to the gnewsense-users mailing list, project co-founder Paul O’Malley had a look at both the past and the future of the distribution. As for the future, the message broke news that the original project leaders Brian Brazil and Paul think they have taken the project as far as they think they can, and plan to hand over maintenance to other community members..."
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10 Ways to Contribute to GNU
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"If you ever wanted to be a part of GNU project and dreamt that you could somehow make some contribution to GNU project that has helped so many of free software community by collaborating with Linux, here are some ways to do so..."
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Obama and Free Software
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"One of the more interesting aspects of the modern knowledge society is the free software movement. The most famous and influential leader of this movement is Richard M. Stallman (RMS). Richard recognized the value of a new model for software development and the various risks to that model.
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