He's known as a jovial comedian with a vocabulary wider than the Grand Canyon. But an afternoon with Windows Vista has seemingly turned Stephen Fry into a intemperate, foul-mouthed illiterate.
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Ogg on the Rise
"The recent launch of Stephen Fry's film in celebration of GNU's 25th anniversary has been a success on a number of levels — including for PlayOgg.org , the campaign for free audio and video formats. Worldwide, people have reached out to thank us and offer their support, including dozens of volunteers who have translated the film into over 24 languages.
Read more »Stephen Fry's film "Happy Birthday to GNU" now available in 24 languages
"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 -- Since its release ten days ago, Stephen Fry's film "Happy Birthday to GNU" at www.gnu.org/fry has been viewed over a half-million times, and today the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced the availability of twenty-four translations including Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Hebrew, that have been prepared especially for this Saturd
Read more »Freedom Socks - Episode 7 - we interview Matt Lee about the Stephen Fry video
This week is going to be a little different - the show is longer for a start. We cover this weeks news and express our anger in the Two Minutes Hate as usual, but we also have an interview with Matt Lee from the FSF, mainly about the the recent Stephen Fry video. Remember, you can discuss the show on IRC, the forum or email us feedback.
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Happy 25th Birthday, GNU!
"The GNU operating system is 25 years old this year! Stephen Fry has a celebratory video where he explains software freedom in a very non-technical and accessible way. The video is licensed to share and available in multiple free formats, of course.
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« 25 years ago Richard Stallman started the GNU (”Gnu’s Not Unix”) project to create a computer operating system like Unix (then ascendant in computer labs like the one Stallman worked in), but with source code free for programmers to run, study, share, and improve.
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Happy birthday, GNU: Stephen Fry
"Mr. Stephen Fry introduces you to free software, and reminds you of a very special birthday."
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Deliver Us From Microsoft
In recent weeks I have banged on about Open Source, expending two articles on Firefox alone. Open Source applications make their code available to everyone. Disagreements and rabid balkanisation within the Open Source community aside, for our purposes the term might as well refer to free software whose licence allows you to share the source code, alter it, use it, do with it what you will.
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