Bucharest (RO), October 2009 -- The Romanian Ministry of Education and Research has launched the ``The Teacher - Educational Software Developer'' strategic project that is to be implemented between September 2009 - September 2011 (24 months). The target of the project is three million pupils around the country.
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Your freedom needs free software
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Many of us know that governments can threaten the human rights of software users through censorship and surveillance of the Internet. Many do not realize that the software they run on their home or work computers can be an even worse threat. Thinking of software as `just a tool', they suppose that it obeys them, when in fact it often obeys others instead.
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RMS: Who does that server really serve?
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Richard Stallman's new article. On the Internet, proprietary software isn't the only way to lose your freedom. Software as a Service is another way to let someone else have power over your computing.
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IMAX — Not Just Apple — Attacks Free Software With Software Patents
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Another legal attack against Free software comes in the form of a threat (issued against Sandy3D) and Apple's reason for suing Android seems like gradual iPhone defeat (Linux is winning)
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Mandriva - Catch a falling star
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Mandriva began life in July 1998 as Linux Mandrake in France in Gael Duval's bedroom after he ported a KDE 1.0 desktop onto Red Hat Linux 5.1, uploaded the result onto two FTP servers, went away on holiday, and came back to find that he had a popular and successful Linux distribution on his hands.
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Can free software drive the fourth paradigm?
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The biggest science story to hit the mainstream media in the last year was of course the big switch on at CERN. What made it such a great story for me was not just the sheer and audacious enormity of the enterprise or the humbling nobility of the colossal experiment but the story behind the story.
Read more »NXS Dissects Special 301 Report: Using FOSS Targets You as a Criminal
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NXS has provided the relevant excerpts from the IIPA's Special 301 Report and it's clear: if a country opts to use free software, the BSA wants them labeled criminals.
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Brazil launches new version of their electronic government portal
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Brazil has launched a new version of their e-government portal, using Plone and the Zope Application Server. NXS has translated the press release announcing the new website.
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Novell Should Stop Sponsoring the BSA, Which Lobbies Against Free Software in Vietnam
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Novell supports the BSA et al, thus harming some of its own interests as an arguably "open source" (or "mixed source") company
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Update on SourceForge's Ban on "Illegal Countries"
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SourceForge has now changed their policy regarding their ban on users from "sanctioned countries."
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San Francisco Adopts Free Software Policy!
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After years of activism by local free software advocates, San Francisco, in particular, and California have both adopted policies requiring all government software purchases to include an evaluation of free software!
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Latest Attack on FOSS Traced Back to BSA
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Very negative portrayal of Free software is tied to a lobby that's directly tied to Microsoft and also strives to criminalise Free software in the EU
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US copyright lobby claims free software undermines respect for intellectual property
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The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) wants countries such as Brazil, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam to be placed on the US government's blacklist of copyright sinners for supporting open source software
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Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Released
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This version features Nouveau (a reverse-engineered driver for Nvidia graphic cards), Nintendo Wii and Gamecube support, DRDB (Distributed Replicated Block Device), a security extension for TCP called "cookie transactions", a syscall for batching recvmsg() calls, several new perf subcommands (perf probe, perf bench, perf kmem, perf diff)...
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PC-BSD 8.0 FINAL Released
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PC-BSD is a free, open-source operating system based on rock-solid FreeBSD and is designed for use on the desktop so it is easy to use. PC-BSD 8.0 (Hubble Edition) is running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE SC 4.3.5. It features brand new graphical installer and can run in Live mode directly from DVD.
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