We’re Freedom Socks! a podcast (availible as ogg varbis and mp3) all about free software and GNU/Linux in particular. And, after another random “season break”, we’re back. This week we run over whats been in the freedom news recently, get all angry about normal people, do an interview with one of our own hosts about the AGPLmail project.
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Copyleft The Great Giveaway
http://www.allaboutjazz.com –
"...If middlemen could strip off the freedom, we might have many users, but those users would not have freedom. So instead of putting GNU software in the public domain, we copyleft it. Copyleft says that anyone who redistributes the software, with or without changes, must pass along the freedom to further copy and change it. Copyleft guarantees that every user has freedom..."
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RMS: « Free Software Means 'Freedom' »
http://www.law.com –
"As the founder of the free software movement and author of the GNU General Public License, I am writing to correct a misleading characterisation of free software presented in William Venema's article about open source. National Law Journal, Oct. 20. I do not wish to defend open source, which I have never supported.
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Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Software
http://swatantryam.blogspot.com –
"When we speak of Free Software (FS), we are speaking about the freedom it gives users, as all supporters of the FS movement understand (or, at least, are expected to know). And freedom of software cannot exist in isolation. It depends on other freedoms, such as freedom of speech..."
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Q&A: Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation
http://www.vnunet.com –
"In an exclusive interview with vnunet.com, Stallman discusses his views on free versus proprietary and open source software, social networking sites and privacy issues..."
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Legal Hacks
http://xkcd.com –
It's totally a reasonable modern analogue. Jefferson would have been all about crypto.
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Richard Stallman in Costa Rica
http://www.wahil.net –
"The best known GNU/Linux hacker Richard Stallman was in Costa Rica since October 12th until October 13th, 2007. He spoke about the “free software”, the GNU project and the work of the Free Software Foundation. Stallman made two shows.
Read more »Commons Graz
http://blog.apc.org.au –
"It was a brisk, crisp walk to the Schloss Berg in Graz where the last in a series of public discussions on the commons was being held. The venue, Dom in Berg, a theatre carved out of a mountain (the Schloss Berg itself), actually in the mountain, provided an inspired setting for what turned out to be a pivotal, necessary and invaluable exchange of ideas and debate..."
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Freedom Is For People
http://robmyers.org –
"I have previously argued that we should talk about "freedom" rather than "openness" because the former provides a guide for action whereas the latter ultimately just confuses people [...] All of these metaphors or frameworks turn the conversation from individual freedom to supra-human systems.
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Not Free at Any Price - Why I switched to the OLPC—and why I dropped it, by Richard M. Stallman
http://www.bostonreview.net –
"The One Laptop Per Child project, launched by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte in 2003, was supposed to lead millions of children around the world to information technology and freedom [...] I now expect that the main effect of the OLPC project—if it succeeds—will be to turn millions of children into Microsoft users.
Read more »Research on BBC content for GNU/Linux
http://www.bbc.co.uk –
"This week, we're really happy to be sharing some work we've commissioned to deliver BBC content (mainly radio shows from the BBC Audio & Music team) on demand for users of GNU/Linux..." -- via BBC doing more important multimedia work and in freedom
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FSFE Newsletter
http://mail.fsfeurope.org –
"This was an important month for Free Software. Not only was Software Freedom Day held (as always) on the 20th, but this years marks the 25th anniversary of the GNU Project. Celebrations took place across Europe and our Fellows continued to support Free Software in local areas with enthusiasm and passion. Other important events took place.
Read more »I met Richard Stallman
http://trombonechamp.wordpress.com –
"Yes, I seriously did have the opportunity to meet him personally, and listen to his speech on the Free Software Movement. Let me attempt to explain the experience, and how it came to be..."
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What do traditional farmers have in common with those taking part in the free software movement?
http://www.grain.org –
This is an old story, but some hackers may be interested in signing this call ===> Against the indexing and privitising of living organisms
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Why Freedom matters much more than ‘convenience’
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com –
RMS: « ... I sympathize fully with appreciation of convenient software. What I refuse to sympathize with is the failure to appreciate freedom even more... »
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