Recently in US History class we have been studying The Gilded Age. Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, and other businessmen ruled the US with such power that it made the government useless. When the government could do something about the problem with the cases that came through Supreme Court, it almost always sided with the corporations.
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SUSE against the tide
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Just as surprising as the agreement itself was the enthusiastic participation and defence of the agreement by the developers Novell inherited from Ximian.
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How to Bypass Internet Censorship :: Book Review
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The book How to Bypass Internet Censorship using free software tools is now out. The book is distributed on Lulu.com. The interesting aspect about this book is that it is created using collaborative content development system over a period of (just) five days by various contributors.
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Trisquel GNU/Linux 2.1 released
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"We are very proud to be able to ensure, after a long task of evaluating the content of our repositories with the support and supervision of GNU, that Trisquel is as libre as it can be.
Read more »The "Idea for Change: Support the Free Software Movement" is in 9th place with 2 weeks left!
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"There are only 2 weeks left in the first round of the "Ideas for Change in America" competition, and the "Idea for Change: Support the Free Software Movement" is in 9th place in the Technology Policy category.
The top 3 rated ideas for each category will make it to the second round, which will be held in early January... We need 135 votes to move up to third place in Technology Policy..."
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The "Idea for Change: Support the Free Software Movement" is in 9th place with 2 weeks left!
There are only 2 weeks left in the first round of the "Ideas for Change in America" competition, and the "Idea for Change: Support the Free Software Movement" is in 9th place in the Technology Policy category.
The top 3 rated ideas for each category will make it to the second round, which will be held in early January... We need 135 votes to move up to third place in Technology Policy.
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Announcing Ubiquiti's Free Software RouterStation User Interface/Firmware Challenge!
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"In an effort to enrich and contribute to the Free Software community, Ubiquiti Networks is offering $200,000 in cash prizes for developers who provide the most impressive User Interface/Firmware for Ubiquiti's newly released free-software embedded wireless platform, the RouterStation..." -- routerstation is based on openwrt as
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"We've set up a francophone FSFE list [...] This breaks our tradition of setting up public lists based on country or regional borders. Europe is complex and the boundaries that history has drawn are not always ideal for community forming..." -- FSFE announces 4 weeks of translation sprint
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Interview With Wiki Founder Jimmy Wales
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"...Wales is looking at how Wikipedia can develop a community in India and how it can hold events to build the community..."
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Stallman visits computer centre for the poor
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"Richard Stallman, widely acknowledged at the pioneer of the free software movement, visits local community computer centre and gets impressed..."
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Affero GPL is freedom to the web
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"...copyleft is a tool designed to spread freedom in software, at any cost. The FSF, which wrote the GNU and Affero licenses, has the goal to make all software free as in freedom. Companies are ‘free’ to join the revolution, or to look somewhere else for their needs.
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Free Software for Movie industry workshop at IFFK
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The Free Software for Movie industry workshop was conducted this morning as the part of 13th International Film Festival of Kerala IIFFK) 2008. Delegates, film Makers, editors, sound engineers, graphic designers and students attended this event.
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FSFE Fellowship interview: Hanno Böck
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This month features the third installment of our Fellowship interviews series. Hanno Böck is a Fellowship member who concerns himself with a wide range of issues, from privacy and media activism to GNU/Linux and the environment. I sat down for an interview session with Hanno, asking him about his work and how it all relates to Free Software.
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X11::GUITest Build Errors
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X11::GUITest and X11::GUITest::record CPAN modules help you control X11 applications using perl programming language and do some rather simple automation tasks.
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The Free Software Movement: an answer to a world built in code and/or a philosophy in itself ?
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"...«Piracy,» Stallman said during his public speech in Bangalore on Saturday, «is totally wrong, because it is wrong to attack ships on sail.» If the person posing the question happens to get smarter and asks specifically about software and music piracy, Stallman gave an even better answer: «Pirates never attack ships with software and music, they do it with guns.» ..." --
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