“Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognise that the Internet is a vast platform for cultural expression, access to knowledge, and democratic participation in European creativity, bringing generations together through the information society; calls on the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to avoid adopting measures conflicting with civil liberties and human rights and
Read more »Sweden Rejects Sarkozy’s War on File Sharing
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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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Stallman in Stockholm
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"On the 26th February at 5.30 pm - the Free Software Foundation Europe, Unionen and the Royal Institute of Technology are offering a lecture by Richard Stallman: The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System..."
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Swedish MPs call for legalized file-sharing
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"Seven Swedish Members of Parliament from the Moderate Party have written a stirring call for the legalization of file-sharing..."
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VIdeo of RMS' speech in Gothenburg
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"On the 16th of may 2007, Richard Stallman gave a speech on the subject of Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works..."
Read more »Swedish police save the equivalent of 400 new police cars by switching to MySQL
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[Swedish] government officials project IT savings amounting to 50 percent within the next five years – approximately the cost of 400 fully-equipped police cars
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Entire city of Vista users can't access the internet
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PEOPLE in the city of Lund in Sweden that use the Microsoft Vista OS can't connect to the Internet. Apparently the reason is because Lund is a Linux city which has a a Linux server that doesn't like Vista.
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Something rotten in the State of Sweden
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This entire OOXML campaign stinks! This is being forced on everyone simply because one corporation has manufactured a back-door strategy, to maintain a software monopoly.
Read more »Microsoft forced partners to vote Yes!
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Vote Yes to OOXML and we'll make sure that you get extra marketing money for you campaigns; this is Microsoft's Sweden's own words when they rounded up their Gold Partners in Sweden. Klas Hammar, Microsoft Sweden now regrets the formulation and regrets that the e-mail was sent out.
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Sweden's SIS Declares OOXML Vote Invalid - Will Change Vote from Yes to Abstain
http://www.groklaw.net –
SIS, the standards body in Sweden, has declared its vote on OOXML invalid. There is no time to start over, so Sweden will abstain. We don't have it translated for you yet, but a reader informs me of the gist.
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