We are excited to make the final preliminary announcement of Freedomware Gamefest 2007, a first international online event featuring a multitude of tournaments as part of a single happening and with games that are only Free Software.
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Free Software and Free Society
"I participated in a panel discussion of Decoding Liberation at the Wolfe Institute at Brooklyn College yesterday. The book, written by Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter, colleagues of mine at BC, is an important sociological, political and technical treatment of the free software movement..."
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Online music school saves cash with Linux
CTO Marilyn Hoefner decided to give open source software a try. "We've been extremely happy," Hoefner says.
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Google, GNU/Linux and the future of personal computing
"Nick Carr posted recently about 'Google, Apple and the future of personal computing'. I agree that mainstream popular computing is shifting from desktop apps to web apps, and while Microsoft is trying to do it all itself, specialist players like Apple and Google are forming coalitions. But I disagree that the future will be found in Apple: The future is in free software..."
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Recordings about our Philosophy
"...If you have a good recording from a GNU event, and you would like to share it with us, please send an email to 'audio-recordings@gnu.org' ..."
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What’s So Green About Free Software?
"Recently, there was some news on linux.com about the Canadian Greens supporting free software in their election platform. I’m not surprised. Greens in general are very supportive towards free software, even the ones that don’t really use much of it themselves (like the Swedish Greens).
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Perception of Free/Libre Software
"...In my recent public speeches I focused on one value of Free Software: business ethics within digital society. In short, my argument is that since the society has changed to an economy of information, those that write software have the power to control information and therefore control society. Modern societies evolved systems, like democracy, so that big powers could be balanced.
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Marketer finds good karma in using and sharing open source
What does a marketing guru with a passion for the South Seas and a penchant for entrepreneurship do? He launches an e-commerce site that sells noni juice, custom surfboards, and island-inspired home accessories, of course.
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Does open source (and free) software reduce your pirating? 61% say yes
Over 12 months go I asked my readers whether open source software reduces your pirating and the result was very half-and-half. Well, this year I've asked the same question again and the results have shifted.
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The philosophy of Gnu puts users in the middle of a difficult decision.
They need to decide which is better, free software or non-free software. This response to a concerned email, aims to clear up some issues and misconceptions.
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Free Software as Social Innovation
"On Friday 2nd November I attended the London FSFE event, Free Software as a Social Innovation. I am not really a techie (though I have been Free since 1998) and certainly not in an NGO, but had asked to go because I wanted to see some ground level advocacy in action.
I had an interesting day. Feel "Free" to read on..."
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RMS: Overcoming Social Inertia
"...The main obstacle to the triumph of software freedom is social inertia [...] Social inertia consists of people giving in to social inertia. When you give in to social inertia, you become part of it; when you resist it, you reduce it. We conquer inertia by identifying it, and resolving not to be part of it.
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Planting social solidarity reaps a harvest of community
"...This method involves a lot of hard work that, historically, few have demonstrated they are interested in doing: teach people the values of software freedom, teach the philosophy behind why the free software movement exists..."
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Canadian Greens add FOSS to election platform
"Thanks to a founding member of Free Geek Vancouver, the Green Party of Canada has quietly become the first major political party in Canada to make support for free and open source software (FOSS) part of its election platform..."
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Free Software Research and Civil Society
"On the 4th of December, the Free Software Foundation Europe is organising a workshop as part of the STACS project. The workshop will bring researchers and civil society together to encourage the formation of new joint research projects in the field."
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