"With video streaming site Dailymotion offering the free Ogg Theora video format, FSF urges other video sites to follow..."
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GNU Generation: Calling all Pre-University Students
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GNU Generation is a new project sponsored by the Free Software Foundation to involve high school age pre-university students (approximately ages 13-18) in free software.
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Introductions - Free Software Foundation
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Holmes Wilson is the new campaigns manager at the Free Software Foundation. He shares his background and his goals as a member of FSF.
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The Challenge of Change - Free Software Foundation
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Max Shinn is a high school student and is doing the FSF internship program. Max recounts his experience with free software and shares the story of how a school research assignment led him to discover the ideals of GNU and the free software movement. Max has been tasked with the project of reaching out and inviting the youth to get involved in free software.
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Starting my internship at the FSF
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Sarah McIntire recounts her experience with free software and states her intentions for her contributions as an intern in the FSF. Sarah's recount is one of many examples of 'people with limited computer skills' that are living happily with our GNU/Linux systems.
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GPL and Stallman FUD Now Arriving from the Freedom-apathetic or Freedom-hostile
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Microsoft, Novell and Apple fanfare proves challenging to GNU/FSF; the OSI may also face a new hurdle
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FSF: FOSS developers "still should not write software that depends on Mono"
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The Free Software Foundation has issued another statement on Mono, C# after the recent Microsoft extension of the terms of their Community Promise to implementations of ECMA 334 and 335. Is is safe to go back in the water now, as so many have been saying? FSF says no, that the "promise is full of loopholes, and it's nowhere near enough to make C# safe."
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Microsoft's Empty Promise
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FSF: Last week, Microsoft extended the terms of their Community Promise to implementations of the ECMA 334 and 335 standards. You might think this means it's safe to write your software in C#. However, this promise is full of loopholes, and it's nowhere near enough to make C# safe.
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Laptop Hacking a la Frankenstein
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Today's been a slow day and without knowing I found myself with a screwdriver in my hand and a dissected laptop on my desk in front of me.
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We speak about Free Software
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Free Software is often referred to as "Open Source." This is a result of an attempt by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to create a marketing campaign for Free Software.
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Outreach to GFDL liensed wikis: migrate to CC BY-SA by August 1st!
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"...Benjamin Mako Hill (Wikipedian, Free Software Foundation board member, and one of the people crucial to making the migration possible) writes on the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list: As the group with the most to lose and as the group that introduced the change at issue, the foundation and its broader community should devote as much time as possible to this issue in the next two months before
Read more »GNU'S NOT UNIX - Richard Stallman with BYTE editors, July 1986
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«... Richard Stallman has undertaken probably the most ambitious free software development project to date, the GNU system. In his GNU Manifesto, published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, Stallman described GNU as a "complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it...
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GNU'S NOT UNIX Conducted by David Betz and Jon Edwards Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain UNIX-compatible software system with BYTE editors (July 1986)
Copyright (C) 1986 Richard Stallman. Permission is granted to make and distribute copies of this article as long as the copyright and this notice appear on all copies.
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Job opening on the FSF campaigns team
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"The FSF is hiring a campaigns manager to be part of the team that runs DefectiveByDesign and PlayOgg, helps coordinate the GNU Project, and generates new campaign ideas. This is an opportunity to take a leadership role in the organization that sponsors the GNU project, publishes the GPL, and fights for software freedom..."
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FSF and Cisco Settle - For Real, This Time
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The Free Software Foundation and Cisco have now settled the litigation over the GPL and Cisco's subsidiary, Linksys.
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