"...Having spent so much of my life working as a lawyer for the Free Software movement, I feel a special bond with the work of Creative Commons, and it is therefore a great privilege to write on behalf of CC..."
Read more »Commoner Letter #1: Eben Moglen
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Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software (last updated $Date: 2008/10/07 06:48:57 $)
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RMS: «When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes [...] As the advocates of open source draw new users into our community, we free software activists have to work even more to bring the issue of freedom to those new users' attention.
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Free Ignorance
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"... «I ask you to please always call it Free Software because that way you will encourage other people to pay attention to the question of freedom. The term Open Source was formulated by people who did not want to talk about freedom and that is the stupidest thing any people can do.
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National Conference On Free Software, Kochi India
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National Conference On Free Software 2008 is being organized in Cochin Kerala(India) on 15 and 16 November 2008. Last years event was held in Hyderabad.
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High Priority Free Software Projects
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The FSF high-priority projects list serves to foster the development of projects that are important for increasing the adoption and use of free software and free software operating systems. The projects on our list are neither run, controlled, nor maintained by the FSF, but are supported entirely by the individuals in the free software community.
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FSFE's Fellowship at Freedom not Fear in Berlin
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On 8. October the Berlin Fellowship group had their monthly meeting in the Newthinking Store. Beside planning our attendance on the BLIT in Potsdam and the evaluation of the past events like Software Freedom Day and "GNUburtstag" we had a visitor from AK-Vorrat.
Read more »Scandanavian Free Software Conference
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"The second annual FSCons is about to take place in Gothenburg, Sweden the 24th to the 26th of October. I am giving a talk about Perl and debian, and there are lots of good talks this year as well as the second Nordic Free Software Award, won last year by Skolelinux. We hope you'll attend if you are in the neighborhood!"
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Free Software Community Project needs Hardware
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"Manchester Free Software recently set up a free software suite at the Marbella Café at 52 Newton Street in the Northern Quarter, using machines previously used by Free Space Manchester and originally from the Basement Social Centre..."
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Open Sustainability Network Event in San Francisco, this weekend
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North by South will be participating in the Open Sustainability Network camp in San Francisco this weekend. OSNCamp is “a BarCamp style conference about free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.”
It will be happening this weekend, October 18-19, at San Francisco State University.
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SocialDNS: Free Domains for a Free Internet
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"Hello all, John Sullivan (FSF) invited me to present in this mailing list the SocialDNS project (http://www.socialdns.net).
Read more »Eisenstern, Yo Frankie, and Vega Strike eye candy
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A Free Gamer update that talks about recent changes in the development of the Eisenstern. Also a video of Yo Frankie! gameplay - the Apricot Project game, as well as Vega Strike eye candy. Also a new acronym - FSFR - is introduced to the world.
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OpenAnno from Libregamewiki, the Free Gaming Encyclopedia
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"OpenAnno is a real-time strategy and economic simulation game loosely based on Sunflower's Anno series.
The first public version of OpenAnno is version 2008.1 released on October 1st, 2008. It is currently also the latest release. The project's existence can be traced all the way back to July, 7th, 2007 when OpenAnno was registered on SourceForge.net."
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13 nominated for Nordic Free Software Award
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13 people/projects have been nominated for the Nordic Free Software Award.
The winner will be presented October 25 at FSCONS
The nomiations are:
* Daniel Stenberg
* Kristinehamn Kommune
* Simon Josefsson
* The EJBCA Project
* Inge Wallin
* IT-Political Association
* Imendio
* Patrik Wallström
Venezuela adopts ODF as a national standard
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"Speaking at the Second ODF Workshop in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday, Carlos Gonzalez of the National Center of Information Technologies, announced that the Venezuelan government had formally adopted ODF as a standard for the ‘processing, exchange and storage of documents’.” Venezuela joins a number of other countries who have adopted this open standard, along with Brazil, Uruguay, Sout
Read more »Links to Other Free Software Sites (last updated $Date: 2008/10/01 01:00:54 $)
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"To help promote knowledge of free software that isn't GNU software distributed by the FSF, we have collected the following links to other web sites that contain free software, or is directly related to the issue of free software..."
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