Software Freedom Day teaser from Japan
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Read more »Software Freedom Day 2009 Starts Now in Asia
PostgreSQL Conference 2009 Japan - JPUG 10th Anniversary Conference
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PostgreSQL Conference 2009 Japan is a worldwide conference for *free software* users and developers ;)
Read more »Speak out against ACTA
http://www.fsf.org –
"ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a proposed enforcement treaty between United States, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Mexico, with Canada set to join any day now..."
* http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta [...]
Take action! ..."
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Three Strikes, Three Countries: France, Japan and Sweden
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"The music and movie industries have been making a concerted attempt to introduce a "three strikes" rule for Net users in many countries simultaneously — pressuring ISPs to throw their customers offline, possibly permanently, if the rightsholders report that they have been infringing..."
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Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards
http://www.govtech.com –
"The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors whose products support internationally recognized open standards."
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