Until society can resolve what I will call for the first time the “Stallman Paradox”, where learning and access enabling technologies, such as for example digital books, conversely disables the freedom to read and hence more than negates the actual benefits of said access, the rush to embrace all digital libraries and textbooks is a rush to a new dark ages.
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An introduction to GNUnet
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Anonymity and deniability in distributing information are two of the goals of the GNUnet project. At its heart, GNUnet is a mechanism to share content with others without revealing who generated the content or who accessed it. It also provides intermediate nodes in the network with the ability to deny knowledge of the contents of any traffic they forward because they are unable to decrypt it.
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Lets work together.
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The Linux community is very fragmented. This does not have to be a bad thing at all. Diversity is important for innovation and choice for users. However, because there are so many different projects, people sometimes get at other Linux users within the community.
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FSF internship - working with GNU MyServer
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Hi, my name is Marek, I study informatics (I’ve just ended my second year), I’m GNU Volunteer Webmaster and this summer I was an intern at FSF working on GNU MyServer. You can be curious why I’m not listed here along other interns - being first FSF intern I was accepted before FSF’s new internship program was started and I’m not part of it.
Read more »RMS: 1, Symbolics: 0
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"Symbolics probably doesn't mean much to you, but it should. It was the main reason that Richard Stallman started the GNU project..."
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Secure VoIP, GNU SIP Witch, and replacing Skype with free software
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"For the last few years I had been working when time was available on what is called the GNU Telephony Secure Calling Initiative.This initiative was originally started specifically to make passive voice communication intercept a thing of the past using free software and public standards, and came out of ideas from and the work of the New York City civil liberties community and New York Fair Use in
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For the last few years I had been working on what is called the GNU Telephony Secure Calling initiative (http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/Secure_Call).
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GNU Hackers Meeting 2009
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« Registration is now open for the GNU Hackers Meeting on 11-13 November in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is being held jointly with the FSCONS conference on 14-15 November. The meeting is intended for active GNU contributors and its theme is "the continued advancement of the GNU system"...
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«This is to announce coreutils-7.5, a "stable" release. We're calling it "stable" in spite of the fact that there is a new program, stdbuf, and there are some interesting new features. Thanks to everyone who has been helping! ...»
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Free as in Car Keys
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"...Free Software is really something to get excited about. Through the community created by GNU Generation, hopefully that excitement will persevere through the years to come. Unfortunately, it will take more than just a small little campaign to make this happen. It will take the cooperation of all Free Software users, developers, and advocates to really get the message across.
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Using GNU/Linux as a leverage to get discounts from Microsoft.
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GNU Emacs 23.1 Provides Anti-Aliasing
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Emacs, the extensible editor of the GNU project, is available in version 23.1. The release adds countless modernizations to the traditional program, such as font anti-alising and support for D-Bus and zeroconf.
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Linux Sucks
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Please stay away from GNU/Linux. Don't say I haven't warned you!
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Improvements to GNU Guile
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A nice summary of some of the great work done on Guile recently.
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Emacs Lisp revived
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"Hi all, I finally started real work on implementing the elisp compiler and just pushed a first start-off code to branch elisp. It is however not yet usable for anything, but also already has some very few things done..."
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