In the tender for equipment for Regional Centre for Transferring Modern Technologies in Mielec, Poland, bidders can offer any IT solution, as long as it's not based on Free and Open Source Software.
Read more »Anything but open source!
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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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Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
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RMS writes on Canonical's controversial decision to forward local Ubuntu searches to third parties. One way or another there are big privacy implications.
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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.
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9 Google Reader alternatives
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If you are in search of an alternative for Google Reader, this article offers a list to choose from. They have been listed under three categories – Desktop, Self-hosted, and Web service. Three are under each category, and are the ones I’ve either used in the past, or have read about.
Read more »Petition: promote the use of free software in US schools
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Whitehouse.gov has a petition to advocate and gradually replace in US schools software with restrictive licensing in favor of open source alternatives with GPL type licenses. In as much as possible we should have our students using software that complies with the definition of free software as defined by the Free Software Foundation.
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Why Is Google Not Supporting The Open Document Formats?
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Bhartiya writes: For ages I have been convincing people to switch from close source to open source, from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. I have been telling people to ditch the controversial docx format and adopt .odt only to find myself in an embarrassing situation, thanks to Google.
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GNU MediaGoblin is 25% into its FSF-backed crowdfunding campaign
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GNU MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing system for images, video, and audio. We're designing to support decentralization and tons of extensibility. You can think of it as a federated replacement for things like Flickr, YouTube or SoundCloud that you or anyone can run.
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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EUR 561 million fine over illegal web browser bundling
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The European Commission slapped Microsoft with a fine of EUR 561 million for breaching a 2009 settlement over the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows. Under this agreement, the company promised to display a “browser choice” screen on Windows installs in Europe, inviting users to choose other browsers in addition to the company’s own program.
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Host your own document storage service with ownCloud
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If you don't want to lose control of your data, yet enjoy all the benefits of an always-available and synchronized online repository, you can turn to ownCloud, an application that lets users share and sync files within the confines of your enterprise firewall on servers you control.
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Authorities should include freedoms when deciding on software
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Member of the European Parliament, Amelia Andersdotter, wants public administrations to consider software freedom as one of the reasons to select new ICT solutions. Authorities should base their choice at least partially on the freedoms the software gives to their citizens, enterprises, authorities and schools.
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Support the FSF: Turn your dollars into decibels
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Make a one-time donation to help us make your voice for software freedom heard. Please support us at whatever amount feels right to you. Every dollar helps us raise your voices one more decibel.
Read more »Announcement: Diaspora Will Now Be a Community-Driven Project
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As a Free Software social project, we have an obligation to take this project further, for the good of the community that revolves around it. Putting the decisions for the project’s future in the hands of the community is one of the highest benefits of any FOSS project, and we’d like to bring this benefit to our users and developers.
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2012 Free Software Award winners announced
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Free Software Foundation president Richard M. Stallman announced the winners of the FSF's annual Free Software Awards at a ceremony held during the LibrePlanet 2013 conference.
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