We've just finished a major update of the Guide to DRM-free Living with dozens of new places to get ebooks, movies, and music without DRM and a page of worst-offenders. There have been some exciting developments in the realm of DRM opposition on ebooks, like Tor/Forge dropping DRM on ebooks, and we wanted to spruce up the guide to reflect all the progress that's been made.
Read more »Guide to DRM-free Living gets a big update!
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Avoid being locked in as Microsoft turns off Windows Messenger
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On April 8, Microsoft will discontinue its Windows Messenger service. All current users will be switched to Skype. The Free Software Foundation Europe advises former users of Windows Messenger to take this as an opportunity to embrace Open Standards such as Jabber (XMPP) instead of switching to Skype.
Read more »The FSF opens nominations for the 15th Annual Free Software Awards
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project today announced the opening of nominations for the 15th annual Free Software Awards. The Free Software Awards include the Award for the Advancement of Free Software and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
Read more »Debian: First prototype ready making hardware easier to use
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A new software that detects plugable devices and installs needed software packages (given that in Debian repositories) automagically and graphically. Very promising.
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Update on the effort to defeat Restricted Boot
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Think twice before purchasing Microsoft's new ARM-based tablet, especially if you are hoping to replace the new Windows RT operating system, with a free software operating system such as GNU/Linux or Android. These new devices ship with Restricted Boot, which prevents you from installing free software on the device.
Read more »ownCloud 5 released: a vision realized, a vision expanded
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Today ownCloud 5, a very important milestone for the ownCloud community and perhaps the most important release so far, was released.
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