"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, September 8, 2009 -- Today the Free Software Foundation (FSF) filed an objection in court to the proposed Google Book Search settlement (The Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc.).
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Launching the Windows7sins Campaign - Join us Wednesday in Boston
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"Hi everyone, This Wednesday, August 26 at 11am, the Free Software Foundation will be launching its Windows7sins.org public awareness campaign, drawing attention to the threats posed by the adoption of Microsoft's proprietary operating system.
Read more »US State Dept. workers beg Clinton for Firefox
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US State Department workers have begged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to let them use Firefox.
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Is mono a problem outside the US and other patent friendly countries?
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Here in Europe we do not care about software patents, at least not yet. As Canonical is based in the EU this should not give the Ubuntu community any issue by itself. So keep any patent related problem for United-States based distributions and leave Ubuntu alone. Or move to a country that enforces your freedom all-day-every-day!
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US Copyright Law, King Lear, and Jammie Thomas-Rasset
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I was goofing off, looking up some information on on Wikipedia on King Lear, and here's what struck me. If the current US Copyright Law had been in effect over Shakespeare, I think he could have been sued by many authors for copyright infringement for writing that masterpiece.
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US Breeds Software Patents
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A look at some new articles about software patents in the United States
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Copyleft and the War on Sharing
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"FSF's John Sullivan will talk about copyleft, copyright, the War on Sharing, and the GNU/Linux free software operating system at the Connecticut Film Festival." -- via Copyleft and the War on Sharing - Free Software Foundation
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David Bollier's unconventional wisdom (you can hear some tonight)
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"It's no secret that everything’s up for grabs in this brave new and rapidly unfurling world, but journalist/media critic/activist David Bollier has found himself ahead of the curve by going back to basics.In his new book 'Viral Spiral: How The Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own', Bollier expounds on the virtues of the "free culture" movement of the commons, which can best be descri
Read more »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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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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Freedom, Future and Fred
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"An interview with Fred Benenson, from Creative Commons, based in New York. By Bianca Bautista...
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David Bollier talk on 5/18 at NYU - History of Free Culture Movement
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"...David Bollier will speak about the themes of his new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press)..."
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“US copyright law is far too strict” – GNU founder
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American software freedom activist Richard Stallman, better known as the author of GNU General Public License, joined RT to give his comments on modern software copyright laws, and the risks of cyber sneaking.
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FBI, CIPAV, and the Windows Back Doors Revisited
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“US copyright law is far too strict” – GNU founder
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"American software freedom activist Richard Stallman, better known as the author of GNU General Public License, joined RT to give his comments on modern software copyright laws, and the risks of cyber sneaking. The interview is available in Ogg Theora format..."
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