"Dave Cross encourages the dependence upon proprietary software by complaining that the Free Software Foundation’s recent 25th birthday video should have been distributed in non-free formats so people could see the video..."
Read more »Free media and free software help keep you free to run your life
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GNU Planet!
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"You can keep up to date with all your favorite GNU projects, via their individual RSS news feeds, but if you'd prefer to see a wider view, be sure to check out the new GNU Planet..."
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[FSF] Free Software Supporter, September 2008
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## In this issue
* Software Freedom Day
* Happy Birthday to GNU!
* GNU Planet
* gNewSense 2.1 released
* Spring 2008 Bulletin available online
* Submit your nominations for the 2008 Free Software Awards
* On the savannah, where the gnu roam...
* DRM down under
* Free Hexen and Heretic!
* Malaysian Government Dept switches to OpenDocument
Software Freedom Day in Boston is a Wealth for the Commons: Saturday, September 20, 2008
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"...The Free Software Foundation is hosting a Boston event to honor Software Freedom Day, an international holiday that was observed on every continent but Antarctica last year. The FSF will be one of more than 200 teams hosting events around the world. Boston's celebration is especially notable because this is where the free software movement began. Richard M.
Read more »Stephen Fry wishes GNU/Linux a happy 25th birthday
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I was surprised and delighted to find this video presentation by one of my favorite performers, Stephen Fry, called "Happy Birthday to GNU", on the GNU project homepage.
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Sun thwarts name change at independent Java conference
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A European Java developers' conference has been prevented from using Javapolis and JaVoxx after opposition from Sun's lawyers. The conference now has a new name, but there's no obvious Java connection.
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Linux: has the horse bolted?
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Richard Stallman wants to popularise the term GNU/Linux instead of using the currently popular term Linux. He correctly states that the term Linux, besides being thoroughly inaccurate, totally fails to introduce new users to the legal and philosophical concepts that underlie the basis of the GNU/Linux OS; but is it feasible to make such a change at this late stage?
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Copyleft has no impact on project activity?!
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Recently, I collected some data from Sourceforge, hoping to find evidence for the importance of copyleft. But I found something surprising: although there's plenty of evidence that many developers believe in the power of copyleft, the one measure I could derive of how much copyleft actually works showed that copyleft made no difference whatsoever!
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Red Hat - Free Software done horribly wrong
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In my corporate job we try to employ Debian whenever possible. We use it on our servers. I push for it as the default on the desktops. We sell services and software based around Debian servers.
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GNU Kicks Off 25th Anniversary Celebration
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This month marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the GNU Project by Richard M. Stallman. GNU is one of the oldest and best-known organizations in the free and open-source world, providing not only high-quality software, but also a well-known license (the GNU General Public License), and a philosophy that continues to influence many activists and programmers.
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Ah Um: mingus 0.3
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mingus is a music theory package for Python. This post properly announces version 0.3 and gets into some of the issues that were dealt with while developing this release.
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Elisa - open Media center, multimedia player for openSUSE Linux
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Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player. While primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems, elisa also currently support Microsoft Windows. Elisa runs on top of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
Read more »Portrait: Jeff Elkner, Free Software activist and teacher
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Jeff Elkner teaches high school students in Arlington, Va., about Linux and other Free Software. He's serious about helping budding computer scientists understand what FOSS is and what it can do for them, and he's one of those guys who always seems to be sharing his knowledge with others.
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Heretic and Hexen liberated!
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After several years of trying, members of the Doom community have succeeded in getting the source code to Heretic and its sequel, Hexen to be re-released as free software under the GNU General Public License.
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Bill and Jerry, Chrome and the Next Linux Generation
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Some Linux bloggers spent the week kicking around ideas for attracting the next generation of computer users to Linux, while others were simply distracted by the nonsensical commercial Microsoft put out on Thursday featuring highly paid spokesperson Jerry Seinfeld.
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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.
