Another structured analysis in light of news and suspicious developments
Read more »Mono and Moonlight: GNU/Linux Polluters from Microsoft/Novell
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RMS: « Free Software Means 'Freedom' »
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"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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((lambda (x) ((compile x) x)) '(lambda (x) ((compile x) x)))
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"Over the last couple days, I implemented a generic tower of compilers in Guile.So for example, you have Scheme as a source language, which defines a compiler to GHIL (a scheme-like intermediate language, simpler and without macros), which defines a compiler to GLIL (a lower-level language), which defines a compiler to object code (the byte sequence of VM code)..." -- see also
Read more »We are looking for hackers!
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"If you want to contribute to the free software movement with time, please take a look below :) ..."
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Q&A: Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation
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"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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New GNU releases October 2008
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This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as announced during October 2008 on the mailing list http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu.
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GPLv3/AGPLv3 Adoption: If It Happened Too Fast, I'd Be Worried
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"Since the release of GPLv3, technology pundits have been opining about how adoption is unlikely, usually citing Linux's still-GPLv2 status as (often their only) example. Even though I'm a pro-GPLv3 (and, specifically, pro-AGPLv3) advocate, I have never been troubled by slow adoption, as long as it remained on a linear upswing from release day onward (which it has)..."
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World without Linux
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"Microsoft CEO and President, Steve Ballmer was happy as a clam today at his WindowsWorld keynote in San Francisco's Gates Center [...] At this point in his keynote speech, there was a disturbance in the front as a group of demonstrators started shouting "GNU-HURD! GNU-HURD! GNU-HURD!" The police quickly hustled them away..."
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[FSF] Free Software Supporter, November 2008
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## In this issue
* Support freedom: How YOU can make a difference for free software
* New USB membership cards and FSF Bulletin
* New t-shirts in our store
* OpenDocument campaign page gets a revamp
* Bilski ruling: a victory on the path to ending software patents
* Show your support with the FSF campaigns widget
* DefectiveByDesign.org: MP3-compatible, a new DRM-free music promotion
Ashley Highfield to Finally Get Paid by His Masters
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Ashley Highfield goes on Microsoft's payroll, having caused great damage to the BBC (and scolded GNU/Linux)
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GnuTLS 2.6.1 - Security release
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"We are proud to announce a new stable GnuTLS release: Version 2.6.1 ..."
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Richard Stallman in Costa Rica
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"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 »ANNOUNCE: Guile-DBI version 2.1.1
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"...guile-dbi provides a simple, generic, easy-to-use scheme/guile interface to SQL databases, such as Postgres or MySQL ..."
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Announcing bzr 1.9
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"I'm happy to announce the release of bzr 1.9 [...] bzr 1.9 is now available from http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download as a source tarball ..."
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Open Letter to Richard Stallman
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"Dear Mr. Stallman,
I am writing to express my disappointment with the Free Software Foundation regarding the recent release of the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3..."
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