The Free Software Foundation and Cisco have now settled the litigation over the GPL and Cisco's subsidiary, Linksys.
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Job opening on the FSF campaigns team
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"The FSF is hiring a campaigns manager to be part of the team that runs DefectiveByDesign and PlayOgg, helps coordinate the GNU Project, and generates new campaign ideas. This is an opportunity to take a leadership role in the organization that sponsors the GNU project, publishes the GPL, and fights for software freedom..."
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Kernel Log: Alsa driver for the X-Fi, debate over TuxOnIce
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The Linux kernel will soon include a driver for Creative's X-Fi sound cards. After a long pause, the kernel development team are once again debating merging TuxOnIce.
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Take this Action for Free Software in Europe
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The upcoming European parliament elections give the free software movement an opportunity to educate the candidates to the importance of protecting free software from bad legislation involving software patents, interoperability and net neutrality. Please follow these easy steps...
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Proprietary software in cars
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RMS: « The proposal for a right-to-repair law illustrates the harm done by proprietary software in cars. »
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Top Microsoft strategist highlights a change in IP policy
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Phelps portrays Microsoft as desperately striving to adapt to a new world of aggressive enforcement of intellectual property (IP), but ends up suggesting a rising IP hegemon eager to shape a new world of such enforcement. It's not pretty.
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The KDE 4.3 beta: KDE Returns to Incremental Releases
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With the release of the KDE 4.3 beta, the project is returning to incremental releases, and concentrating on customization and ease of use on the desktop, the panel, and system settings.
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Wikimedia Foundation to Add Creative Commons License for All Content
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"Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in addition to its longstanding GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The proposal was approved by a 75 percent majority of community voters as announced this week..."
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Free Software in Schools
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"At the moment Free Software in education is one of my main interests in the Free Software ecosystem. FSFE’s Fellowship wiki already provides some useful information on this topic. It’s quite interesting to see the development in this area.
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Knuth Tells Europe to Let Him “Innovate in Peace” (Without Software Patents)
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"PROFESSOR DONALD KNUTH IS nobody to sneeze at. He is considered one of the world’s masters or authorities in algorithms and his letter opposing software patents in the United States is rather famous. A short while ago Knuth was kind enough to worry for Europeans too.
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Boycott Novell had been under DDOS attacks for almost 4 days. We were struggling to just stay online while hosts investigated where the attacks came from. We moved between hosts (to semi-dedicated) and the same pattern of attack persisted until yesterday. WE have kept silent about it in order not to encourage the attacker/s, but it's true.
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Gnote Enters Debian, UbuntuOne Has No Mono
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The Top 5 Free Network Monitoring Tools
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Awareness of what's happening on your network, and why, makes the difference between average and excellent network administration. Great tools are needed to obtain this knowledge quickly and accurately. Fortunately, some of the best network monitoring tools are free. This article lists the top five.
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Report: Cisco and FSF settle
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According to the New Media & Technology Law Blog, the FSF legal action against Cisco, filed in December 2008 has been settled.
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Real World Computing
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MySQL fan Ian Wrigley discusses computer programming for children, and goes back in time with linux.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
