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Taking a Principled Position on Software Freedom

http://www.advogato.org

Those of us in the free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) community know the routine by now.

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Taking a Principled Position on Software Freedom

http://mako.cc

Benjamin Mako Hill argues that "a FLOSS program might be better or more reliable than proprietary software. Or it might be worse. [...] We can use empirical evidence to help bolster our arguments but we should be careful to not confuse these empirical claims with the principles themselves. They can, and sometimes will, be proven wrong."

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Google OS: Bootloader to the Cloud

http://aligunduz.org

I see a big threat in what Google is aiming here, which is complete dependence on the cloud. Google plans to release most of the so called Chrome OS as free software. Yes, but we should also look at what this OS is reduced to.

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The right to be free

http://polishlinux.org

Everybody knows, that DRM is bad. Also everybody knows, that Open Source is just a compromise and a stage in transition to a close-to-ideal system, which Free Software is. However let’s try to look at the other side of the coin.

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Why Software is not treated fairly

http://www.mygnulinux.com

This article is not about free software, although many ideas in this article are similar. This article is about the rights and respect that the computer user deserves, and have been taken away from him without even knowing it.

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Richard Stallman on Parliament Hill on Tuesday, June 2

http://johnmiedema.ca

"Richard Stallman, President of the Free Software Foundation, will be speaking on the main steps of Parliament Hill in Ottawa this Tuesday (June 2) at 4:30 pm..." — For more information see: The State's Freedom and the People's Freedom, as Users of Software. —

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When you see Flash, Duck and Cover

http://trombonechamp.wordpress.com

The best thing anyone can do to continue making the Internet more closed, restrictive, and prohibiting is to use Adobe Flash as it exists today. The Internet was created to allow for the open and unconfined infrastructure to share information; yet, it is being used today for the opposite purpose: to stop this information torrent.

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Thomas Lord, on Why We Need Free Network Services, and not just Copyleft

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

"...Copyleft is not enough. Free software web services must technologically resist needless centralization of services..."

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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...

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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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Brave New Skyping World Revisited

http://freedom-blog.net

Refashioned and strengthened main argument against Skype. This article was a revisited continuation of (I think well-known) "Ten Reasons Why You Should Boycott Skype".

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Avoiding the JavaScript trap

http://www.tuxradar.com

We're not going to bore you by talking about free beer versus free speech - that's an old argument and one with which we hope you're familiar by now. Instead, we want you to focus on the web services you rely on. Think Google. Think Gmail. Think Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm or any number of others.

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Why I chose GNU/Linux

http://www.internetling.com

Many people will give you many reasons why GNU\Linux is better than Windows, Mac, or any other Operating System out there. I will not, I am just going to give the reasons I feel GNU/Linux is a better OS.

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The Freedom Maintainers Rocking Ahead

http://www.siltala.net

"...In his anniversary message to the gnewsense-users mailing list, project co-founder Paul O’Malley had a look at both the past and the future of the distribution. As for the future, the message broke news that the original project leaders Brian Brazil and Paul think they have taken the project as far as they think they can, and plan to hand over maintenance to other community members..."

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Microsoft + “Open” Attack GNU/Linux and “Free” (as in Free Speech)

http://boycottnovell.com

Citrix-controlled Xen keeps bending towards Microsoft, which misuses "open source"

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