Does collusion with Microsoft (or favouritism) permit Switzerland- and Quabec-like action to go forward and expand?
Read more »Can the United Kingdom and Hungary Still be Sued for Excluding Free Software?
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In 2010 Asia and Latin America will be leading the use of free software... Africa lags behind
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"Researchers from Seville -María Dolores Gallego, Salvador Bueno (of Pablo de Olavide University) and Paula Luna (University of Seville)- carried out a report, published in the magazine Technological Forecasting & Social Change, stating that the use of free software in South America and Asia will be around 70% in 2010, with a special relevance in the education sector..."
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GNU'S NOT UNIX - Richard Stallman with BYTE editors, July 1986
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«... Richard Stallman has undertaken probably the most ambitious free software development project to date, the GNU system. In his GNU Manifesto, published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, Stallman described GNU as a "complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it...
Read more »GNU'S NOT UNIX - Richard Stallman with BYTE editors, July 1986
GNU'S NOT UNIX Conducted by David Betz and Jon Edwards Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain UNIX-compatible software system with BYTE editors (July 1986)
Copyright (C) 1986 Richard Stallman. Permission is granted to make and distribute copies of this article as long as the copyright and this notice appear on all copies.
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[FSF] Free Software Action Alert!
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"The upcoming European parliament elections give the free software movement an opportunity to educate the candidates to the importance of protecting free software from bad legislation involving software patents, interoperability and net neutrality. The French free software association April has organized the Free Software Pact initiative, but they need your help.
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Northeast Free Software Meeting in Bahía will discuss the economic and social role of free software
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Presenting the free software model as a way to provide viable and sustainable access to new information technologies while encouraging the economic and social development of a region is part of the goals of III ENSL, the Northeast Free Software Meeting and the Fourth Bahia Free Software Festival, happening on May 29-30 at the campus of Bahia State University (UNEB) in Salvador, Bahia’s capital.
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Ex-Microsoftie: Free software will kill Redmond
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Bill Gates probably will not sing the praises of Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who's now left the fold and written a book about why the Redmond way will fail. Oh yeah, Curtis is not afraid to speak his mind as a Linux guru, either.
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Free Software in Schools
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"At the moment Free Software in education is one of my main interests in the Free Software ecosystem. FSFE’s Fellowship wiki already provides some useful information on this topic. It’s quite interesting to see the development in this area.
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The Top 5 Free Network Monitoring Tools
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Awareness of what's happening on your network, and why, makes the difference between average and excellent network administration. Great tools are needed to obtain this knowledge quickly and accurately. Fortunately, some of the best network monitoring tools are free. This article lists the top five.
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Brazil is aggressively expanding their Telecentro program
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The Brazilian National Support Project for Telecentros (public computer labs with free, public Internet access) intends to support the deployment of 2 - 3,000 new Telecentros and towards achieving the goal of 10,000 active Telecentros by the year 2010. Almost all of the Telecentros are built using entirely free and open source software.
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Why the free software community cares about The Pirate Bay
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We are currently living in a historical moment which will define and shape digital rights and information freedom on the internet for generations to come. It’s one of those rare moments where the issue is black and white and where the two opposing camps can be identified without over-simplifying the issue.
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War on Sharing: RIAA moves to block new FSF court brief
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"Yesterday, while we were publishing our response to the RIAA's recent attack on the merit of organizations who represent the public's interest filing informative briefs in cases that threaten to negatively affect the public's interest, the RIAA was attacking us again.
Read more »New translations of the Free Software Pact
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"New translations of the Free Software Pact are available. We now have the Free Software Pact in Catalan, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish thanks to the work of volunteers..."
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Spanish company introduces solar-powered netbooks
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"...The GYY runs a GNU/Linux OS, a low-power 400 MHz processor, a 8-inch 800x480 display, a slim 128MB of RAM, and up to 64GB of flash memory..."
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Intern at the FSF
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"This is an opportunity to work for the organization that sponsors the GNU project, publishes the GNU General Public License (GPL), and fights for software freedom..."
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