After a gap of three years, the Free Software Free Society (FSFS) conference is back again. The first FSFS conference was held on 28-30 May, 2005 in Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital city of south Indian state of Kerala.
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I met Richard Stallman
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"Yes, I seriously did have the opportunity to meet him personally, and listen to his speech on the Free Software Movement. Let me attempt to explain the experience, and how it came to be..."
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Opposing Digital Restrictions Management
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"FSF's John Sullivan will speak about the problems with Digital Restrictions Management at the American Society for Information Science and Technology's annual meeting. He'll talk about the history and work of DefectiveByDesign.org, as well as the importance of free software and information sharing..."
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Why Freedom matters much more than ‘convenience’
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RMS: « ... I sympathize fully with appreciation of convenient software. What I refuse to sympathize with is the failure to appreciate freedom even more... »
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Knowledge is not inward looking
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"New Delhi, Oct. 24. ``Knowledge is not inward looking... it liberates`` is one of the convictions proposed by the International Congress on ``Free Software and the democratisation of knowledge`` organised by the Salesian Polytechnical University of Ecuador..."
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FSFE's antitrust victory with Samba
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FSFE's role in the antitrust case was to ensure that free software developers would be able to use any interoperability information that Microsoft would be forced to publish. After 5 years of work, the last court case was won last year.
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BMW wants to pimp your ride with open source
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Free software is being used just about everywhere to power everything from ERP systems to email. BMW, however, has even better plans for free software
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*All* Russian Schools to Use Free Software
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"I've often lamented how few schools in the UK use free software, and how difficult it is to break the lock that Microsoft has on the entire educational system. The pathetic state here is highlighted by contrast with Russia, which is making amazing strides in rolling out open source to schools..."
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How Anti-Piracy Efforts Benefit Free Software
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Imagine you, as a happy user of standard, proprietary software, were told that you should use 'free' software, so that you would have the freedom to use and share your software however you wanted. This argument would not convince many people on its own.
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Microsoft's global anti-user day
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« Yesterday, Microsoft announced something they called "Global Anti-Piracy Day".
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RMS to talk computing freedom at U or why “open source” misses the point of Free Software
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"Stallman makes a clear distinction between the free software and open source movements. The free software movement is based on values of freedom and social solidarity, he said, while the open source movement is thinking about practical benefits only, and forgets what’s most important..."
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Inside Networked Movements: Interview with Jeffrey Juris
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"...Both free software and wikis precisely reflect the kind of collaborative networking ethic that I explore in my book, and it should come as no surprise that so many radical or autonomous activists see their own struggles reflected in the struggle for free software or that so many contemporary activist collectives and projects use wikis- and the decentralized, collaborative editing process these
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Freedom Socks - Episode 9 - Evil Urghhh Liberty Attack
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Freedom Socks is a podcast (availible as ogg varbis and mp3) all about free software and GNU/Linux in particular.
Read more »The Cultural Significance of Free Software - October 30, 2008, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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"...Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education..." -- via http://twobits.net/
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Debian at Systems Expo in Munich, Germany
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"The Debian project will be present again at this year's Systems expo which takes place from October 21-24 in Munich, Germany [...] a preview of the next version of Debian, lenny, will be presented..."
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