"...Journalism needs great hackers. Not just nerds, but programmers who care -- about the values of journalism and the power of a free press to hold government accountable. Luckily, hackers are a freedom-minded bunch. The free software movement is rooted in many of the same principals that guide journalism.
Read more »Hackers wanted! Scholarships available to coders who'll come to journalism and help save democracy
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The Fear of Knowledge
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I had the opportunity of listening to a presentation by a poorly-informed faculty member at my school regarding copyright laws. This was an eye-opening experience for me into the way those who believe to have a solid grasp of copyright view it. My class of 30+ students listened intently, believing everything they were told, as Mrs. Smith started her lecture…
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The GPL & The Free Software Movement: why Eric Raymond is wrong
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"Eleven years ago, Bruce Perens, who was then leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project, drafted the Debian free software guidelines as part of the project's social contract..." -- See alse The Myth of the Free Market (via RMS).
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Patents, Protests, Plebiscites, and Protecting your freedom
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"When he attended a rally in Munich this month, Richard Stallman took time out of his busy schedule to talk with our News Editor, Britta Wülfing. The conversation covered everything from Software as a Service, to patents, protests, international politics, and protecting your freedom...
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Quote of the Month: RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free
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"'Software as a service' means that you think of a particular server as doing your computing for you. If that's what the server does, you must not use it! If you do your computing on someone else's server, you hand over control of your computing to whoever controls the server.
Read more »Why I Use Linux
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As I've mentioned in a previous Linux Line post, I am not a programmer. Yet Linux is built on the philosophical principle of freely sharing source code. This is how those who create Linux frequently advocate it.
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Google selectively censors Iraninan users
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Anyone connecting form Iran is blocked from accessing certain Google sections (Google Summer of Code 2009 site in the example)
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Linux-libre: now with a boot mascot!
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Having gathered some beautiful samples, I decided on my favorite and put together a kernel patch today. It basically adds the option of building a new Linux-libre logo into the kernel. Here's the result!
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protonet - building a new internet -- "revolutions don't start with frickin business cases"
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"So I'm a software mercenary, I fight code wars for money, to be more precise to raise money to do what I really love, and part of that is to create a new internet, a free one, where the data and the infrastructure belongs to the people, to give them their freedom back. That is why me and some 3-4 other guys are working on this project of ours, protonet. To build a new, better internet.
Read more »TomTom/Microsoft: A Wake-Up Call for GPLv3 Migration
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"There has been a lot of press coverage about the Microsoft/TomTom settlement. Unfortunately, so far, I have seen no one speak directly about the dangers that this deal could pose to software freedom, and what our community should consider in its wake. Karen and I discussed some of these details on our podcast, but I thought it would be useful to have a blog post about this issue as well..."
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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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DFEY-NW Meeting April
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DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth) is a group formed in response from a growing need in the Northwest of England for a group to encourage and promote young people's involvement with the free software community by creating a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get involved with GLUGs and FSUGs.
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Stallman discusses Free Software and GPLv3
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"On June 29, 2007 the Free Software Foundation released the GNU General Public License, version 3. What happened since then? I had the opportunity to discuss many subjects with FSF's founder and president Richard Stallman..."
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Quote of the Day: RMS on Peer-to-Peer for Collaborative Applications
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RMS: « It is very important to promote peer-to-peer methods of doing various collaborative tasks, because servers cause issues of control vs freedom, and peer-to-peer is the only way to avoid them. »
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The free software movement, and the GNU GPL, in the age of Javascript
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"In February 2009, I enjoyed the privilege of attending a lecture series by Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement, and main author of the GNU General Public License – a copyleft free software license. With his lectures still fresh in my mind, I would like to wrestle with a lingering question, for which I have not yet found a satisfying answer..."
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