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Read more »Welcome to the new and improved FSDaily
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Free Software Magazine's Issue 20 is out
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Free to read online and free to download. There's 19 new articles to peruse.
Read more »Bazaar is now a GNU project
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"I'm happy to announce that Bazaar is now officially a GNU project. This decision was taken after consultation with some of the core Bazaar developers, Canonical management, and Richard Stallman, leader of the GNU project..."
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Boycott Trend Micro
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"Join us and the ScriptumLibre.org Foundation in boycotting all products and services sold by Trend Micro. The proprietary software company Trend Micro has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Barracuda Systems. They claim that Barracuda is violating their patent by distributing the free software antivirus program ClamAV..."
Read more »You can now add FSDaily news feeds to your sites!
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You can now add FSDaily news feeds to your website or homepage. The block will show the latest news from one of our great feeds.
Read more »All 235 low-cost webcams supported in Linux thanks to... this man
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A LONE HOBBYIST programmer sitting at his home in France is responsible for adding 235 USB webcams to the list of those supported by Linux.
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Can we rescue OLPC from Windows? - by Richard Stallman
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"I read Negroponte's statement presenting the OLPC XO as a platform for Windows in the most ironic circumstances possible: during a week of preparing, under a deadline, to migrate personally to an XO. I made this decision for one specific reason: freedom..."
Read more »Richard Stallman Talks On Copyright Vs. the People
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Richard M. Stallman recently gave a talk entitled Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club. The talk looks at the origin of copyright, and how it has evolved over time from something that originally served the benefit of the people to a tool used against them...
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Running from Open Source: or how my ’school’ is avoiding Open Office implementation
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I have a real open source crisis at my hands. My ’school’ IT department has been pushing for the implementation of Microsoft Office 2007 in our 60 machines. The funny thing is, since our IT head is also our supplier, he too is pushing for this because he probably gets a commission. I’m the only one who has offered an alternative, Open Office, naturally.
Read more »My Interview With Richard Stallman.
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"Last week I got the opportunity to fire questions to unarguably one of the most influential and inspirational people of our time.
Read more »New FSDaily tool: Bookmarklets
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FSDaily is a community driven site. Without submissions from the community there is no news for the FSDaily community. When you read a great free software related article you can share it with the rest of the free software community by submitting it to FSDaily yourself. An easy way to do this is using FSDaily Bookmarklets.
Read more »The GNU Manifesto
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"...GNU is not in the public domain. Everyone will be permitted to modify and redistribute GNU, but no distributor will be allowed to restrict its further redistribution. That is to say, proprietary modifications will not be allowed. I want to make sure that all versions of GNU remain free..."
Read more »FSF: Getting started with Ogg and installing Ogg plugins
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"...Ogg is professional-grade media format. Ogg Vorbis encodes audio and Ogg Theora encodes video. [...] The companies that control the software design it to restrict the users and spy on them. If you choose Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora, you can listen to audio and stream video using many different media players, including free software that respects your freedom..."
Read more »Microsoft Must Earn Respect of FOSS Community
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Can you believe it? Given Microsoft's history of antagonism, It's hard to believe anyone - let alone the Linux Foundation - would call on the FOSS community to respect Microsoft. No, if Microsoft wants respect, they should get it the 'old-fashioned' way - by earning it.
Read more »Does Microsoft have nowhere to run?
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The more I think about Microsoft, the more I realise that they are, possibly for the first time, seriously cornered (or surrounded, depending on how you want to see it). A little history will clarify why I think so - and why I think that this might really be the beginning of the end for Microsoft.
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