"This morning the FSF filed a lawsuit against Cisco, alleging that the company has infringed our copyrights by distributing programs under the GNU GPL and LGPL without respecting the licenses' terms. You've probably seen the press release; if you're especially curious, you might also want to read the complaint.
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Is Microsoft Embracing Open Source? Like a Python Embraces a Gazelle
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A few remarks about Microsoft "Oxite" and a video about "embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE)
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The Big Push 2009 -- Free Software Foundation Appeal
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Support "The Big Push" for free software adoption in 2009: "Why does this school accept corporate donations of proprietary software that come with handcuffs on my child's education, rather than use free software that will give my child the opportunity to be in control of the technology she is learning to use?"
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ODF Alliance Newsletter - 10 December 2008
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The ODF Alliance summarises developments relating to the standard
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The Patent System is Broken.. and How NOT to Fix It
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OIN interviews, announcement of "Linux Defenders" and general criticism of this patent strategy
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The Reasons to Avoid Google Code
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Google Code is a web service which offers to provide project site hosting for Free Software projects. But if you care about your own and your fellow developers and users' privacy and freedom, there are reasons to avoid using it.
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Stallman to visit community computing centre
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"Richard M. Stallman, founder of Free Software Foundation will be visiting the Ambedkar community computer centre this Saturday..."
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Easy Guaranteed Computer Compatibility
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Buying new computers, particularly laptops, can be a bit of a challenge for Linux users. Sure, you can just go buy any random computer, but you are not guaranteed compatibility. Yes, all the essential parts will almost certainly work, but you never know for sure without doing some research.
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HeliOS Solutions vs The Teacher
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I won't say Ken Starks is a friend of mine but I have met him. He's a good guy on dedicated mission to bring Linux to the people. He is neither pushy or invasive. He brings information to those whom wish to obtain it.
That said, I'm surprised his reply email was this calm...
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What Will It Take To Have A Truly Free Kernel?
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Knowing when a GNU/Linux distribution is free used to be simple. If all its software had licenses approved by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) or the Open Source Initiative, then a distribution was free. Otherwise, it wasn't.
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Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. The FSF's complaint alleges that in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco has violated the licenses of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library.
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Unix And Linux Factoids - Your Time To Live Is Gonna Come
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How does traceroute work? After a lengthy rant on knowledge and intelligence, we'll figure it all out ;)
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Microsoft Front (ACT) Tries to Pass Anti-Free Software Laws
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The lobbyists from Association for Competitive Technology (Microsoft proxy) attempt to poison EU law
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Updating the Free Software Definition
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"Yesterday, we made some changes to the Free Software Definition to help clarify a few points that had been confusing for people in the past..."
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Five Firefox Extensions for Mobile Users
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While you won't find any Firefox extensions designed specifically for mobile users, there are a few add-ons you might find particularly useful when you are on the move. Here are five of them.
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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.
