"Lots of news this month! The FSF foundation joined other groups in making a political statement about proprietary software. We've got a report and new photos of the Defective by Design protest of the BBC. GPLv3 adoption continues. GNU Grub was spotted in a Marvel comic book. A new and improved alpha version of Gnash is out. RMS makes a whirlwind tour of California. Read all about it in this month's edition along with updates on major GNU packages like GNOME and gcc. There's even some news on the Hurd this month..."