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FUD Gauge Oscillates in Slashdot and SourceForge Again

http://boycottnovell.com

Slashdot's front page contains slightly aggressive and grossly inaccurate GPL and open source FUD. An observation and rebuttal to it you can find here. (thanks for the headsup, Tracy).

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Meeting with Eben Moglen

http://solutions.ow2.org

"Philippe Aigrain of the Software Freedom Law Center has kindly agreed to organize a meeting between Eben Moglen, Executive Director of the SFLC, and "one of the world's most experienced GPL enforcers", and OW2 Members. This meeting will take place in Paris, France, on Thursday, June 5, 2-4pm, on the premisses of the Sopinspace company..."

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GPL-Violations.org and FSFE's Freedom Task Force to work more closely together

http://mail.fsfeurope.org

"GPL-Violations.org and FSFE's Freedom Task Force to work more closely together. Coordinators of the FSFE Freedom Task Force (FTF) and GPL-Violations.org recently met in Berlin to discuss future cooperation. The two organisations have agreed to deepen their partnership, building on their combined work since the launch of the FTF in October 2006..."

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Free software vs. software-as-a-service: Is the GPL too weak for the Web?

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

"Preserving software freedom in the era of Web applications -- You’ve read the GPL’s preamble, you can name the Four Freedoms, and you do your best to keep proprietary bits off our computers. But what’s the future of free software in the era of Flickr, Google Apps, and Facebook? ..."

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Microsoft Talks to Open Source “Community Members” About Patent Royalties

http://boycottnovell.com

Another bit of evidence suggesting that Microsoft tries to phase in software patents into OSS

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GNU and FSF News for May 2008

http://www.advogato.org

"Skype fought the GPL and the GPL won. The OLPC XO project abandons free software just as RMS switches to an XO; RMS not happy. New monthly newsletters from the FSF and FSFE. GNOME and KDE want to have a joint development conference in 2009. GNOME and GCC conferences coming up later this year. Plus all the usual news: more GPL v3 conversions, HURD news, GNOME news, GCC news, and more..."

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gpl vs. skype back in court

http://www.hackaday.com

"tomorrow the high district court of munich will hear skype argue against the validity of the gpl."

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Created by cpoliticas 14 years 3 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 3 weeks ago
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GPL: man gets feet in mouth

http://www.itwire.com

The fact that the General Public Licence, better known as the GPL, is oft misunderstood, even by those who could be expected to know better, came home to me with a vengeance yesterday.

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Free Software in Education: What Policy Should India Adopt for ICT in School Education?

http://gnowgi.org

"The sections below develop reasons for adoption of free software exclusively for school education. Towards the end, a list of policy guidelines and recommendations are provided for discussion. The document does not cover the pros and cons of using ICT for education. I will try to intervene during the deliberations on these issues. Why Free Software for education? ..."

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The GNU Left

http://binaryfreedom.info

"In the Information Technology world, the Free Software Foundation is the organization that struggles against the drive to convert knowledge itself into a capitalist commodity known as Intellectual Property. The emergence of [GNU/Linux], the fastest growing computer operating system (OS), has done much to validate the FSF work.

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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Released !

http://www.techenclave.com

Ubuntu has finally released their second LTS [Long Term Support] Operating system.. Being the most widely used Linux distro we all have huge hope with this big release. So lets take a quick look at its features an aplication

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Created by Dark Star 14 years 5 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 5 weeks ago
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For Me, It’s Linux, Not GNU/Linux

http://jonreagan.wordpress.com

This guy thinks that the "GNU" part of the term GNU/Linux is derived from the GNU GPL being the license used for the software. Yes he's confused. I'm posting it here so FSDaily people can go and comment.

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Bill Gates Ridicules the GPL While Novell Mops Up with Software Patents

http://boycottnovell.com

There is no substantial news here other than development of discussions, which seem to spread fairly fast from one blog to another blog and soon onto the press. To repeat criticisms from yesterday about Novell’s announcement on China [1, 2], Novell and Microsoft keep spreading software patents to all parts of the world (never mind the legality), using SUSE Linux (Ballnux).

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GPLv3 adoption surpassed 50% of projection

http://gpl3.blogspot.com

Nine months following the heralded official release of the GPLv3 licenses, and with the more recent addition of the Affero GPLv3, adoption has surpassed 50% of my projections.

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Created by ernest.park 14 years 7 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 6 weeks ago
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Interview: How a hacker became a freedom fighter

http://www.newscientist.com

"One of the founding fathers of "free software" and an esteemed elder of the hacking community, Richard Stallman has made defending people's freedoms his life's work. That usually means supplying hackers with software and attacking copyright law.

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