"The Free Software Foundation (“Foundation”), founded in October 1985, pioneered a movement of information exchange that initially had significant impact on software development practices, but later also inspired changes in broader fields of great public benefit [...] As an important part of this worldwide free software movement, the Foundation has been both an inspiration for, and a close obs
Read more »End Software Patents: FSF Amicus Curiae Brief
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FSF files brief in Bilski case calling on the Supreme Court to eliminate software patents
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, October 2, 2009 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today submitted an amicus curiae brief calling on the Supreme Court to affirm that software ideas are not patentable.
Read more »Rein In Government Spying
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"...The JUSTICE Act would also repeal the immunity for telecom giants that illegally asssisted in the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping porgram. This would restore the rule of law and allow EFF’s suit against AT&T to continue so that the courts can do their job and rule on the legality of the surveillance..."
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Django Master Class, October 16, 2009
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"Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of Django's lead developers, will give a whirlwind tour of advanced Django tips and tricks. The focus will be on the techniques you'll need to develop mature Django applications. We'll discuss the kinds of issues that arise as applications increase in scope and scale, and look at common problems in large Django projects and how to solve them..."
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IBM markets Linux to Africa. Why not the U.S?
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In my view, the speed with which the IBM 'Microsoft-Free PC' is coming to market is very questionable. Does it really take more than a year to put together a solution from components that already exist in the market?
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FCC To Introduce Net Neutrality Rule
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Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, plans to propose a new so-called net neutrality rule Monday that could prevent telecommunications, cable and wireless companies from blocking Internet applications, according to sources at the agency.
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Mozilla Firefox Not In Violation of U.S Government Export Rules
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While the Internet may know no borders, the U.S Government does. There are a number of rules including encryption export regulations from the U.S Department of Commerce and export sanctions by the Department of Treasury that affect software vendors. But what do you do when your application is open source and freely available to anyone in the world? Do the same the rules apply?
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Software Freedom Day 2009 in Ellicott City, Maryland
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"Yesterday was Software Freedom Day. I was invited to speak at the Maryland Ubuntu Local Community by its leader, Chuck Frain. He suggested I speak on open formats, a topic which makes considerable sense given my podcast. I put together about thirty minutes worth of material and headed up early yesterday morning..."
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Software Freedom Day 2009 in Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"What a lovely day we had for our Software Freedom Day 2009 celebration [...] We did a great job promoting software freedom..."
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Software Freedom Day in Boston
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«...Control has replaced Free Speech in Stallman’s the rhetoric. This is one of the most noticeable things I took away from today, that there has been a cultural shift from the way proponents of Free Software talk and communicate about the ideas and rationalities of Free Software principles.
Read more »Creative Commons @ Software Freedom Day 2009 in NYC
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"It should be no surprise that here at CC, we’re huge fans of Free Software [...] There are numerous celebrations happening around the world, but I”ll be attending the one in NYC..."
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Turtles all the way down to the source code: FSF's Boston SFD event to feature Walter Bender
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 -- On Saturday, September 19th, Boston's casual free software users and the technologically curious will gather together for a Software Freedom Day event hosted by the Free Software Foundation [...] Richard M.
Read more »From Software to Everywhere >> MakerBot: Bringing the Hardware to Software Freedom Day
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"...Even though MakerBot is both a hardware and software solution, the ideals and infrastructure that the free software movement has pushed forward has given us the scaffolding to build the 3D printing hardware we share with our community and the world using the GPL license..."
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GNU Users Group Los Angeles
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"GUG LA is the GNU Users Group of Los Angeles, located in California, USA. Objectives include the networking of local GNU hackers, participation in GNU projects, and promotion of free software..."
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Software Freedom Day In Maryland
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"Software Freedom Day is coming up quick. Here in Maryland the Ubuntu Loco team will be presenting a series of talks to educate the public on Free software..."
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