"...What really interested me was that RMS proposes that we stop looking at copyright based on the medium of of a work. His idea is, instead, to look at the purpose or the social use of a piece of work ..."
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The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
"The hackers of the artificial intellegence lab did most of their programing in the lisp programing language [...] They began writing programs in lisp that were unrelated to their work in artificial intellegence.
Read more »Richard Stallman in Auckland: On copyright in a networked world
"I just came back from Richard Stallman's lecture at the University of Auckland. I was surprised by the amazing interest in his talk, the lecture hall being entirely jam-packed full, people standing along the back and all the way out into the hallway. I was lucky to be there early enough to get one of the last few chairs..."
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Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase
"For a long time now, Ubuntu has included on the CD a small collection of media files that can be used to show off a new Ubuntu system. This content has always included a sound and a video clip, both using the free Ogg Vorbis and Theora formats.
Read more »Free Culture Gaming - 1st game night Saturday 8pm EDT
"Some folks from Free Culture at Virginia Tech came up with and, more impressively, actually started a Free Culture Gaming club! Every week Free Culture Gaming will get together to play free games online with other free culture aficionados. All of the games we play will be 100% free software and free content, as per our standards..." --
* Free Culture at Virginia Tech: http://vt.freeculture.org/
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Get your music free at Jamendo
"...All music on Jamendo is free to download and licensed through one of several Creative Commons licenses or the Free Art License, making it legal to copy and share, as well as to modify ..." --
* Artlibre.org: Free Art License 1.3 : http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
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[FSF] Free Software Supporter Issue 6 - August 2008
– ## In this issue
* Why free software and Apple's iPhone don't mix
* Play Ogg!
* Pizza Party for friends of the FSF in San Francisco
* Portland associate membership meeting recap
* Give Apple the iPhone Challenge
* Help defeat Microsoft's OOXML format!
* Atheros releases free software wireless driver
* Yahoo Music -- the bad dream of DRM continues
* GNU spotlight with Karl Berry
Irrational publishing and recursive publics
"...As a sort of “proof of concept” of Ariely’s claim, I was interested in the experiment in a new kind of 'hybrid' publishing going on with a recent book by Rice University professor Chris Kelty.«Two Bits: the Cultural Significance of Free Software» is published by Duke University Press (you can buy a copy here), but is also available online on this author-maintained website, twobits.net.
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breiPott: Free (as in Freedom) music party in Berlin
"...Damn, I find it so cool when people combine all those free as in freedom things! In my opinion this is exactly the goal we wanted to achieve with the free software movement and which many of its naysayers and opponents did not get. :-)
Read more »[FSF] Free Software Supporter -- Issue 6, July 2008
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## In this issue
* It's not the Gates, it's the bars
* Act on ACTA!
* Fight the Canadian DMCA!
* Rhapsody and Naxos go DRM free
* Refusing Digital Monitoring Policies
* 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G
* autonomo.us activist group to focus on freedom in network services
* identi.ca is autonomo.us
* GNU spotlight with Karl Berry
* Richard Stallman's speaking schedule
* Take action!
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Franklin Street Statement on Freedom and Network Services
"...The current generation of network services or Software as a Service can provide advantages over traditional, locally installed software in ease of deployment, collaboration, and data aggregation. Many users have begun to rely on such services in preference to software provisioned by themselves or their organizations.
Read more »Students for Free Culture Conference 2008
"Save the date! Students for Free Culture Conference 2008 - October 11 and 12 Berkeley, CA ..."
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Speak out against ACTA
"ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a proposed enforcement treaty between United States, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Mexico, with Canada set to join any day now..."
* http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta [...]
Take action! ..."
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The future of books
"Lately Giulio and I have been busy helping with the organization of BookCamp, a barcamp focused on books, ebooks and digital publishing. [...] Richard Stalmann, President of the Free Software Foundation, will deliver a speech (via phone) with a quite straight title: 'Fighting the Swindle of DRM on E-Books' ..."
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10 000 albums on Jamendo
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