"...Recently a group of Spanish free-culture supporters demanded the withdrawal of the campaign and a public apology from the government. In protest, they arranged a demonstration on the doorstep of one of the leading political parties in Spain.
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An exclusive interview with Martin Nordholts
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For a long time I wanted to do an interview with one of the GIMP developers. Then I came across Martin Nordholts (aka enselic) website and read the following description of his involvement with GIMP:
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GNU IceCat 3.0.5-g1 released
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"Happy GNU year! I am pleased to announce the new version of the GNU IceCat web browser. GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox browser. This new version includes the changes made in Firefox 3.0.5 ..."
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New Year’s meme: What are the oldest files in your home directory?
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"Celebrate the new year with a blog post discussing the oldest files that are still sitting somewhere beneath your home directory! The procedure is simple: ..."
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Sander’s Report Ignores Microsoft’s OOXML Corruptions
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A new report on document formats is released in Denmark, but it neglects to mention very important details
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Videos: Food for Thought on Freedom of Thought, Corruption, and Corporate Deregulation
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Various videos which shed light on issues that we cover: Talks from Moglen, Lessig, and Chomsky
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Seven Most Influential GNU/Linux Distributions
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GNU/Linux offers a bewildering variety of flavors -- or distributions, as they're called. To a newcomer's eye, many of these seem virtually identical to each other. Yet, the more you learn about a distribution and the community that surrounds it, the more different they become. Here, in alphabetical order, is a list of the seven distributions that have most affected GNU/Linux as a whole
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Transcript of an interview with RMS for Radio New Zealand, conducted by Kim Hill on August 9, 2008
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"...They base it on practical values only and they take for granted that proprietary software subjugating users is legitimate; whereas I say, and we in the Free Software movement say, that users are entitled to freedom and that proprietary software is a social problem and we're aiming to correct that problem, put an end to that problem..."
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Happy GNU year! GIMP 2.6.4 released!
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"The GIMP developers welcome you in the new year with the fourth bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series..."
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ANNOUNCEMENT: gnewsense-dev list open
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"Hi all, A new list has opened. It is for dev work not user land issues or bugs. You can contribute, those who do so in real ways get to influence things..."
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Microsoft Executives Go Personal, Pay Obama Instead of Their Lobbyists
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Obama receives money directly from Microsoft executives but not from their lobbyists
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Unmasking “hAl”, Pro-OOXML Fighter
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The man responsible for littering the Web with pro-Microsoft OOXML material appear to be Albert Zonneveld
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Happy Birthday, Gregorian Calendar!
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"Here’s my official symbol for the year 2009 [...] The font is professional but playful, inspired by the rise of free software that helps us at work and at play, to connect, to share our ideas, our feelings, and our own personal worlds. None of this could be possible without the massive contributions made to society by the free software movement..."
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Why are we not using Linux?
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Why are we not using Linux? Considering the advantages for geeks as well as non-geeks, Linux should be at a preference over the traditionally popular propreitary operating systems.
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Happy New Year! A hacker is born!
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On this day in 2004, i made a post with the subject line “3… 2… 1.0!” to announce the release of libs11n, which had been in heavy development for almost 18 months at that time. A year and a day later, 1 January 2005, 1.2.0 was released.
And this New Year's Ever i'm releasing a hacker.
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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.
