"Radical militant librarians are out to destroy the music industry. Or at least, that’s what you might come to believe if you listen to the RIAA’s arguments. The recording industry and other corporate lobbies have convinced policymakers for decades that intellectual property protections are necessary to motivate the production of creative works.
Read more »Free Culture and Copyleft: A social movements perspective
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Website on free software inaugurated
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"THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Minister M. Vijayakumar inaugurated the website of the upcoming international conference ‘Free Software, Free Society’, here on Thursday..."
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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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[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
RMS visit to Bangalore
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"Richard.M.Stallman (RMS), the founder of Free Software Foundation, will be in Bangalore from 12th to 14th (tentative) December 2008. Following this, FSUG Bangalore along with RV College of Engineering has plans to organize a set of events and would like to hear from Free Software enthusiasts around in Bangalore about various possibilities of their participation during this occasion..."
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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 »Wikimedia and GFDL 1.3
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"I spent more time than I would like to admit massaging the process that ultimately led to the release of the the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 (GFDL) by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Read more »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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Not Free at Any Price - Why I switched to the OLPC—and why I dropped it, by Richard M. Stallman
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"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 »Enormously important news from the Free Software Foundation
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"...This change would now permit interoperability among Free Culture projects, just as the dominance of the GNU GPL enables interoperability among Free Software projects. It thus eliminates an unnecessary and unproductive hinderance to the spread and growth of Free Culture..."
Richard Stallman deserves enormous credit for enabling this change to occur..."
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I met Richard Stallman
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"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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Why Freedom matters much more than ‘convenience’
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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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RMS to talk computing freedom at U or why “open source” misses the point of Free Software
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"Stallman makes a clear distinction between the free software and open source movements. The free software movement is based on values of freedom and social solidarity, he said, while the open source movement is thinking about practical benefits only, and forgets what’s most important..."
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Commoner Letter #1: Eben Moglen
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"...Having spent so much of my life working as a lawyer for the Free Software movement, I feel a special bond with the work of Creative Commons, and it is therefore a great privilege to write on behalf of CC..."
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Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software (last updated $Date: 2008/10/07 06:48:57 $)
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RMS: «When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes [...] As the advocates of open source draw new users into our community, we free software activists have to work even more to bring the issue of freedom to those new users' attention.
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