Schools should foster curiosity and the spirit enquiry in an environment that encourages students to learn. A classroom running proprietary software cannot provide this.
Read more »US Can Extradite UK Student For Copyright Infringement
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UK student to be extradited to the lawless madhouse of Soviet America for doing what is perfectly legal in Britain. How safe is anyone from the profit-crazed moguls of Hollywood?
Read more »UK finally moves on Open Standards
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When it comes to Free Software and Open Standards, the UK has long lagged way behind other countries. There were a few policies that sounded good on paper, but that’s exactly where they stayed. This may be finally changing. The UK Cabinet Office has issued a "procurement policy notice" (.pdf) that is, well, surprising. In a good way.
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UK Minister Backs 'Two-Speed' Internet
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Culture minister Ed Vaizey has backed a "two-speed" internet, letting service providers charge content makers and customers for "fast lane" access. In other words, welcome to the slow lane!
Read more »UK Adopts Open Government License for everything: Why it’s good and what it means
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In almost every aspect the license, the UK government will manage its “intellectual property” by setting the default to be open and free.
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UK ISPs To Pay 25% of Copyright Enforcement Costs
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"The UK's Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has released a report (PDF) related to the new Digital Economy Act." Sounds exactly like the good old MAFIAA racket.
Read more »Mark Ballard Shows Why British Government Must Move to ODF as Doorway to Software Freedom
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Calls from within the United Kingdom to facilitate a promised migration to Free software, via international standards such as ODF
Read more »The UK Switches to Drupal and Releases Source Code
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In the United States, the White House has led the march towards open source and free software by switching the http://www.whitehouse.gov/ website to the Drupal content management system. The government of the United Kingdom has decided to follow their lead.
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UK Government Gets More Serious About GNU/Linux Migration
UK Gov. to switch entirely to FOSS software?
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In an effort to cut costs, British Prime Minister David Cameron has called on state officials to submit proposals on how to save the government money. The newly published list includes migrating entirely from Microsoft products to Linux and other open source software
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ISO is Irrelevant and British Government Pushed to Support ODF
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New reminder of how Microsoft corrupted international standards and a call for action in the United Kingdom
Read more »Defending against laws which threaten user freedom
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As the mission of the Free Software Foundation is to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users, they also have to defend against ill-conceived and misguided laws.
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WD12 on ACTA: It's the Final Countdown!
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Anyone can give a call to the non-signatories and urge them to sign before Thursday 13h00. Thursday will be the last day for signing WD12.
Read more »BSA Attacks the Right to Software Freedom in the Czech Republic; Similar Offenses in the UK, Finland
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The BSA continues to make life a lot harder for Free/libre software; message about the situation in Finland is reproduced
Read more »Have Microsoft EULAs Just Been Declared Invalid in the United Kingdom?
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Microsoft's software licences may lack a legal basis and Apple is tickled for breaking the law as a sacred, secret and specially-blessed hypePhone gets out of Apple's hands again
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